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Originally Posted by Joe-FL
Coming through Alabama last week about 5 feet of the black rubber windshield trim came off. On my coach this is a heavy duty black rubber piece that is pretty thick. Got off on an exit and basically stuck it back up and used black Gorilla tape to make sure it stayed.
Yesterday I completed the permanent fix. The rubber trim is made so it simply pushes into a slot around the entire windshield. If you pull on it you can easily remove it. I don't know if it is a common problem with these coming off but it appeared to me that a large gust of wind could certainly pull it off again.
I used a high quality clear silicon and reinstalled the entire rubber trim all around the windshield. Along the bottom of the windshield there was water under the rubber trim piece so it wasn't doing its job anyway. I was careful not to let any of the silicon escape outside the rubber when I pushed it back on.
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Don't mean to be the harbinger of possibly bad news but silicone does not stick very well either to rubber or to fiberglass so you might have leaks. Thor did a factory fix on mine with black silicone which failed. You can get a very good adhesive made just for windshields the seems to work very well. I've used two brands the Napa windshield sealer and the other was the 3M brand windshield sealer. They both stick to rubber and fiberglass. Clean the area with rubbing alcohol first or a good vodka. Silicone says it can be used used on windshield but they never claim it works. Sometimes it might other times it won't.
Also the source of the leak on mine was not the top of the rubber gasket but the bottom where the water from the windshield is forced upward under the gasket.
I haven't had ... naw I'm not going to say it but you get the idea I'm a happy camper in the rain.
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