HB Screen Rubber now on the roll! New discovery or not?

[rostyles]

I strolled into a car trim company near to me, 1/2 mile from my workshop infact, got chatting, "A long shot I know, but would you happen to have screen rubbers for HB's" Expecting the bloke to fall off his chair in fits of histerics he tapped away on the PC and said "Yeah mate, how much do you want!"

Enough to do a front screen will cost £35. I will go back in to see about the rear screen rubber mitred corners, he might be able to do these also.

You will need to cut and joint yourselves chaps.

This place has got more rubber profiles than you can poke a stick at. I have a catelogue with about 100 profiles at scale 1:1. May even match up some door rubber if we are lucky.

[Johan]

Rear screen rubber would be nice, not to mention door and boot rubber

[MAGNUM 2300]

Ask if they have for the HC as well. (or is it the same profile??)

[lisbon_road]

Strictly speaking, the profile for HC is different as it is narrower on the inside. Also strictly speaking, HB front rubbers had glued in moulded corners. It might be that the section offered is HC rubber as I suspect they reduced the thickness on the inside to help get away from the no doubt expensive glued in corners.

There have been pictures on here before where people have fitted continuous strip seals to HBs and the results certainly looked OK. I vaguely remember that a Mk1 Escort rubber fits, but check with someone who knows before trying it!

[ADRIAN]

Just to let people know, a New batch of Viva HB front and Rear windscreen rubbers were ordered from Australia yesterday. Superb quality and a perfect fit, in fact better than the originals. But they are expensive and this is unavoidable .

Hope to have in stock from May 10th onwards, and available to club members only.

ADRIAN

[rostyles]

i will get some samples and maybe bring along to a meet in the near future. I will check out HC availability. Watch this space.

[VivaPete]

see the blog on the Escort rubber pic included showing continual length.

http://www.vauxhallviva.com/vivaforum/v ... highlight=