m_nettleship

is there something wrond inside the door for this to happen, had a look at two now and both have long scratch marks down both passenger and driver windows, can anyone shed any light on this, I no the windows are £250 each.

gpssti4

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Nearly all (Classics) cars have this. I believe that it's to do with the guides. Mine (Type R) has it as did my old classic.

Sorry, can't help more.

Ryo

I would agree, mine (not a P1, just MY00 UK Turbo) has a faint vertical strip, right in the centre of the window, both drivers and passengers side. Only really noticable when they get wet.

Passengers side window mechanism is feeling a little tired now too.

octain

Go to H samuels and ask for some dimond cutting paste , then polish the marks out , its hard work but i managed to get 99% of them out of mine

Mick

Ryo

Nice idea. May try that once I've got the lazy window motors sorted.

octain

It does work they use it to polish out marks on cut glass,

Mick

X30NGO

talking to ian at tintwizard.co.uk, its becasue the frameless doors need a pad to support the window, inside the door, as their is no frame to do this, and over time, the pads build up ****e and wear, and can cause the lines.

Especially noticable when you tint the windows as you then look AT the glass rather than through it.


Bongo

vindaloo

Best idea is to dismantle the mechanism and clean or repair the pads/guides as soon as you start to see a problem.

Silicone polish on the outside of the windows may also help... Well, it doesn't seem to do any harm...

J.

Rb5408

You colud get a kit from here-

Scratch Repair - home page

Its a cerium oxide based paste, i ordered a kit and got a whole load of scratches out of the window on my girlfriends car without much bother, bit messy though.

m_nettleship

its just that a p1 am looking at the mo as a lot of them. when going 90mph u can heaar alot of wind noise comeing from the passenger window, he says it can be adjusted what u think??

gpssti4

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Yes these can usually be adjusted - I had my old MY99 adjusted at my local dealer due to wind noise. I guess yours can be to.

bob r

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My mate (Slagmagnet) had a p1 that did the same.

He took it into subaru and had the glass replaced. Under warranty of course

PPPRob

This isn't a problem for just classics I'm afraid

As mentioned about pillarless doors, it makes sense that newage would do it also.

Nice to hear that some have been replaced under warranty though. I'll probaby look into that before mine is up in July

Poor design really if mine are scratched after 30 months and 19k miles

Trucker Ted

I had a "99 classic a couple of years ago and it also ended up with the scratch marks on the glass , i tried a glass polishing kit from Machine Mart and cleaned the felt pads,which helped a bit.

jhealy

my p1 had this but only slight marking.managed to get rac to polish some off it out when they replaced a smashed windscreen.not sure what they used though.

500

Jens P1 has done this, They all do it

Shouldnt be too much of a problem. if it's just scratched glass that you are bothered about, knock them over it and get the compound and replace the pads. should be ok for a few years

Wurzel

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My MY00 Classic does not have any scratches on any of the windows.

DubaiNeil

MY02 with tinted windows does it - both driver and passenger windows. Doesn't appear to be scratches as such (so far...) but certainly shows up when washing the car

COLZO

Happened on both classic Turbo 2000 and P1 that I owned.

haroldhettaturbo

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Yep same here.

Pretty bad on my99 drivers window, fainter marks on the other 3 also.


Now i know why.