s14 weather stripping

[trust187]

Pretty much I want all my weather stripping redone. I would do it myself but seems like a pain in the ass. Any places you guys would recommend around socal for a job like this? Oh and I'm talking about all the weather stripping on the car EVERYTHING

[bigOdom1]

you dont want to do this it gets expensive

[gotta240]

You want it, but you dont want to pay for it...

TRUST ME.

[trust187]

URGH, have any of you ever attempted to do this yourself ?

[bigOdom1]

why do you want to ? are you doing a restoration?

[trust187]

No just got paint on my weather stripping from not prepping the car right. Looks nasty! So I figured new looking weather stripping would be nice.

[rlpinoy]

good luck it gets VERY costly~!

[projectRDM]

You could pull it all off a salvage car for 1/10th the price of new parts. I threw out nearly three dozen full sets not long ago, ask around for someone who's parting a car.

[StaticX27]

Just to clarify, weather stripping as in the glass lining around the wind shield, rear windshield and the rear quarter panel windows?

If you want official Nissan stuff, yea it's expensive, but there are places that use aftermarket stuff that looks pretty close. I have a few places that have some pretty thin stuff that looks pretty close to OEM. Just to clarify though, this is the stuff you're looking for, right?

[trust187]

everything you just mentioned. Where did you find the aftermarket strips?

[JRas]

have you tried getting the paint off your current weather stripping?

what is the stripping that seals the doors and trunk? instead of windows

[EDacIouSX]

You all say expensive but how expensive is expensive? like 500 bucks expensive or??

[projectRDM]

There's weatherstripping and moulding. I'm assuming the paint is more on the molulding since it's closest to the body.

Door belt mouldings run about $90 each.
Driprail moulding, about $190 each.
Windshield moulding, $70 or so.
Rear window moulding is about $50 for both upper pieces, $55 for the lower.

The weatherstripping, the actual rubber, is high too.

Drip rail weatherstripping is about $70 each.
The door welts are $15 each (x4).
The door weatherstrip is close to $70 each also.

Quarter glass moulding is bonded on, so you'd need replacement glass at $400 each.

I bought new door belt mouldings about a year ago because both of mine were scuffed up, every parts car I had they looked just as bad or worse. Brand new ones look great, but even kissing ass I paid like $71 each.

[Kaizen.]

Is there a trunk moulding or tail light moulding that can be replaced?

Water leaks into my trunk and I have no clue where its coming from.

[joshchewuhh]

theres a write up on here somewhere to stop water going into your trunk

[The Chad]

S14: I just finished replacing my front windshield and rear glass molding. Not too bad of a job, and not tooooo expensive. My molding was pulling apart pretty bad and was half flapping in the wind for the rear haha. I got the rear main piece for $30 and the two pieces for the windshield for around $70. But my good friend is the parts manager at Nissan...soooo i allways get a discount :) .
--I own an S14 and the factory replacement rear molding is not the same as the original so beware!! Perfect length and all, but does not sit flush like stock, instead it actually gets thicker/raises up a bit on both end of the bottom of the rear glass, looks kinda dumb. I cross checked the part number many times, its the right part, must be a redesign??? But if i could do it again, i'd glue the popping out part back in and get some plastic polish. Hope this helps :)

[JDMClifford]

http://www.courtesyparts.com/betasite/84806-weatherstrip-trunk-lid-240sx-s14-1995-1998-p-134423.html

oem. oem. oem. if your gona do it you should do it right, and it would cost over 500 dollors.