Jerry Feather

Hi Sean. Why don't you send your strips back to me so I can compare your final trim with the final trim I am now using. If I see a significant difference I'll suggest sending you a different set to try. On the other hand you may want to try some silicon adhesive to hold them in as suggested by another user.

As stated earlier, these are merely intended as a cosmetic implement. However, I wonder what you measured the sound difference with?

Jerry Feather

SeanR

Hey Jerry, I think I will re-try to stick them in with some sticky compound. There really isn't a need to return them to you unless you think there is a difference between the version from OCIC and now. Cosmetically they are just fine.

As for what I measured the sound with, I used a twin set of stereo microphones, one placed to the left of my head, and one to the right of my head. They have been tuned to a central processing unit for quite a while. Usually they are on every time the car is started but with age they tend to fail. I don't think the left one has had any damage but the right one has had slight bit reduction in pick ups due to an over usage from firearms. I can say that neither of the measuring devices noticed any difference in sound with or with out them installed. It was done a couple of times on the same stretch of road, in the same time frame, same wind direction and direction of travel. The air was also relatively dry.

When one came unattached at one point (the top side), the only increase in noise was due to the item in question trying to stop the wind from beating the windshield, and this only resulted in the item being slammed repeatedly against the glass. I would have noticed this if it had been on the other side of the car even though this one was in my field of vision. Once I was able to use the appendage located just forward of my left shoulder, extending it outside and toward the front of the car, was I able to pull the item in question back inside the car. At this time, when the item was secured in the car, the repeated beating had stopped and there was not an increase in wind noise, as measured by both the left and right sound pick up devices. Once the drivers side window was in its fully upward position that is.

U-928

Jerry, I think I'm just going to go without the ones I bought. I just don't want to get involved with changing out windshield trim, or hunting down and paying for the "proper" GTS rubber parts to match the trim that's currently on the car. I also would rather not attempt to modify the filler strips to fit this specific application, as I'm not confident enough that any of the experimental modifications would in fact work, without having them fly off.

ALKada

Jerry, will you be bringing them to Third Coast?

jbrob007

Or better yet... Frenzy 16...?

finally!

My only suggestion (I bought some at OCIC) would be to reverse them, in other words make the smooth part so it is visible instead... would IMHO match a bit better... Other than that mine have needed zero adjustment since installl at OCIC!

finally!

Note to all.. the above is most likely due to the extremely higher speeds at which Sean is now travelling since the install of his supercharger!

Jerry Feather

Thanks Alex and Joel for your request about these events. I do plan to go to and take some of my stuff to SF 12. However, in spite of the great time I would expect to have at 3rd Coast with the Texans and all the other 928ers who will be going there, it is just too far and too close after SF 12 for me to justify making the trip this year; and Frenzy, likely to be equally fun, is even much farther from here.

Perhaps some day when I retire and begin to concentrate more on making 928 items, I can develop a broader program of going to all of the 928 events both to enjoy the 928 guys/gals and cars and to share these plastic items with the people who are there.

In the meantime, we are stuck mostly with the mail order approach to distribution of my 928 related products.

Jerry Feather

Texbuckeye

Jerry installed them on my 86.5 car at OCIC and I noticed less noise driving back to Dallas from OCIC. Great price too!

dimi5928

Payment send.
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Jimmy
89 S4 Black black

dimi5928

Arrives,installed,look,s grate!!!!!!!
Grate item for the 928.
Thanks Jerry!!!!!
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Jimmy
89 S4 Black black

ReDesign by FEATHER

Thanks, Jimmy, for that report.

I have had another recent report about these Gap Filler Strips in which it was found that on one car they were recently installed on they were both found fairly soon to be creaping slowly out at both bottom ends when the car was at about 50 mph. What I think might be occurring in some cars is that the angle of the gap may be slightly open considering from the back of the gap to its outer opening. If that is the case, with the spring loaded nature of these strips and with the normal vibratioin of the car in motioin, the strips may very well be working themselves out under their own spring pressure, bascially walking out of the gap at the bottom. This does not seem to be common; and maybe there is some differences in the gaps from car to car.

However, what I suggest is that a spot of silicon or similar adhesive be squeezed under the strips at the bottom between the strip and the glass. This should be just enough to hold them in and should be of a kind that can be pulled loose so these strips can be removed whenever needed.

In the meantime I suggest that you check your Strips ocassioinally.

dimi5928

Thanks Jerry.
I am gonna check them out often,but i don,t think they going to be out because they snap very tide in the gap...
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Jimmy
89 S4 Black black

U-928

Any chance I can return mine, or send them to someone that wants a set? I'm not switching all my windshield trim to non-GTS stuff and certainly not buying the GTS rubber to complete the trim on my car.

owenstanley

Install results and general impressions:
Ordering was easy and shipping was as always first class.

I had a few things going on and then it snowed and then... I finally drove the car, after installing the strips.

Impressions - this is a great chance to clean the windshield and the trim - installation is easy, IF the instructions are followed - I had three large-ish blobs of adhesive under the existing trim and removing them was the key to a successful installation - just to be sure I used clear packing tape to hold the strips in place after I installed so that they could "settle in" - I removed the tape after the first day and the strips fit with no soft spots or creeping out - unless you really look closely, Jerry's trim just about disappears (though my car is a black as a coal mine, interior-wise) after it's installed - a seat-of-the-pants impression is that wind noise is less with the strips installed, though I have no way of measuring this.

Overall a fine product and one that I recommend. My daydreams had wandered towards a bead of caulk and this is so much better! Jerry Feather uber alles!!! (& pardon my lack of umlauts.)