My comments must be falling on deaf ears here because this is a common situation with many of today's convertibles. Earlier in this thread I suggested using a silicone lube. I still maintain, for the roadsters only, that after treating mine, all my issues went away. These included: wind noise from window top front with top up or down and windows up; bunching up weatherstrip on front and top of driver and passenger windows; window goes to wrong side of lip, water leaking, door closing timing and adjustment issues, etc. Now I understand I am treating the symptoms rather that the issue itself, but the last thing I plan on doing is spending time taking my Viper back and forth to a dealer, that is usually going to job it out to their body shop (perfect place to keep your baby clean) until they adjust it perfectly and getting frustrated with the inability to get it done perfectly.
Again, a silicone gel applied every month or so then wiped thoughouly off with no greasy residue is making my roadster a very happy rod since it doesn't have to go back to the dealer and have their wonderful and attentive techs making stuff go bad to worse to bad or better depending on what day of the week it is and if they got "any"
the night before. My car's rubber is always like new, black (no whitening) and very pliable. I use it on all the door, window and top rubber molding. Of course the dealer management wants their techs to spend as much time as necessary, adjusting, tweaking, road testing, more adjusting; no matter what their book says on the amount of time DC will pay for this complaint each time it's brought in. After all, we spent $70-$90K and the dealer's GM and Service Manager are attuned to this and want the technician to spend as many endless hours making us happy as we require.
Of course, you can all lament and get anal about it or smear some of the stuff on then after a few minutes wipe it off; if it works, just keep doing it every time you wash your snake and start enjoying the beast. Think of it a part of your snake's personal hygene.
Tell you what, I had to buy three tubes of the loctite stuff; I will send a new tube to anyone that wants to try this free of charge and freight with the promise they will forward the tube to the next the same way on and on until everyone that wishes, can try this 10 minute solution. If it doesn't work for everyone then I'm wrong. I can handle that, been there before. YellowViperSRT-10, you can be the first just to show no hard feelings. A happy owner drives faster!
Larry
