Can anyone take a pic of their windshield bottom seal area?

[ShadowsPapa]

Well just took a drive after taping over the seal gap under the windshield.

That's just trim to make it look finished. It's not a seal and should not seal around the glass. The REAL seal is a bead of urethane you can't see at all. Take a look at a brand new windshield not in the vehicle - it's a piece of plastic attached to the glass to make it look or appear more finished. Otherwise, you'd literally see a gap between the glass and the pinch weld below because of the urethane seal that holds the glass in place. You can rip that plastic trim out and it's not going to leak or do anything other than expose a large gap under the edge of the glass. The urethane bead sits back from the edge of the glass a good half inch or so.
That plastic you see fills that gap and makes it look finished instead of leaving a gaping gap there to fill with leaves, bugs and debris. It's more of a "crap catcher" to keep stuff from getting behind the edge of the glass, and it makes it look "finished". But it's not structural and doesn't seal other than keeping debris from getting under the edge of the glass.

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[93civej1]

That's just trim to make it look finished. It's not a seal and should not seal around the glass. The REAL seal is a bead of urethane you can't see at all. Take a look at a brand new windshield not in the vehicle - it's a piece of plastic attached to the glass to make it look or appear more finished. Otherwise, you'd literally see a gap between the glass and the pinch weld below because of the urethane seal that holds the glass in place. You can rip that plastic trim out and it's not going to leak or do anything other than expose a large gap under the edge of the glass. The urethane bead sits back from the edge of the glass a good half inch or so.
That plastic you see fills that gap and makes it look finished instead of leaving a gaping gap there to fill with leaves, bugs and debris. It's more of a "crap catcher" to keep stuff from getting behind the edge of the glass, and it makes it look "finished". But it's not structural and doesn't seal other than keeping debris from getting under the edge of the glass.

Thanks. I still need to fold the window down when I get a moment to remove my cowl lights and I assume the wipers.


Here is a video of the reverse whistle. Never had this in the other.

 

[93civej1]

That's more a trim than a seal. It's a plastic trim attached to the windshield. The actual urethane seal is not visible at all.
Not that that can't cause some noise - but it's not a seal at all - and you want to let water and gunk out that may get in past that plastic trim that's around the glass.
If that was closed, water can get trapped between that trim and the actual urethane bead that sits about 1/2-3/4" behind that. There's a fair gap between that visual trim and the real seal that seals and holds the glass in place.

Thanks. Good to know.

 

[NC_Overland]

Thanks. I still need to fold the window down when I get a moment to remove my cowl lights and I assume the wipers.


Here is a video of the reverse whistle. Never had this in the other.

Mine has done that since new. I’ve seen a lot of posts on it joking about their Jeep being haunted.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Mine has done that since new. I’ve seen a lot of posts on it joking about their Jeep being haunted.

Yes, a sort of haunting sound in reverse. All of mine have done that, but the 2020 even had my wife's attention "what's whining in here?"

 

[93civej1]

hmmm ok.. it just sounds windish / airish to me and not like gear or straight cut gear whine etc.
Found it odd that my other didnt do that at all.
Well guess its back to just chasing the hiss sound while driving forward over 15mph.

 

[93civej1]

So i finally got a chance to lower the windshield and look behind it. Nothing looked odd to me with seals or anything. I did take some rtv and hit one spot i thought could be a culprit in the upper corner of each windshield frame. I also saw one of their tackey rubber sticker seals hadnt fully covered a hole on the windshielf frame as well. I pushed that in place.

Finally went for a drive today. Still hear the sound that sounds like an air vent hissing, but its not any of those. Its bout to drive me nuts that I cant find it yet.

I also saw people mention the triangles at the mirrors on the door. I messed with removing those and taping the holes as well. nope.

There has to be somewhere im not looking.

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