Scirocco Central

I've only owned the scirocco for just over a week but have noticed that the rubber seals at the top of the doors where they meet the window do not line up with the rear ones. I've attached a few photos and was hoping that people out there could have a look at theirs to see if it was the same. It is only proud by about 4mm but to me it looks fairly shoddy.

The good lady is on her second MkV golf GTI and that thing is pretty much built like a tank, the more I drive the scirocco the more it feels as though it was built to a price

Anyway, here are the photos taken with a pretty poor camera phone and I'd be really grateful if anyone would pass comment, please ignore the idiot reflected in the glass!

Cheers

Havent looked at mine but it doesnt look right. The door just needs a little bit of adjustment, pretty simple to work out.

Thanks John, I thought it was as simple as the door needing adjustment. It just perplexes me that this car is supposed to be built with "German" standards; perhaps that doesn't apply to the UK dealers who are selling the cars.

Presumably the door / window alignment has to be spot on.
Too tight and it will put a strain on the windows and catch when the glass when the windows are raised or lowered.
Too loose and it will allow road noise in to the cabin along with whistling at speed and possibly rain. Have you noticed any of these problems with yours ?

its made in portugal though

wigit wrote:its made in portugal though

I suspect that's the reason then. As far as any water ingress, believe it or not, it hasn't actually rained since I've had it!!

Not sure if I completely have the right end of the stick here, just going off what your photo appears to show:-

So are you saying that the top of your rubber seal on the door (where it meets the window) stands 4mm higher than the top of the bottom rear window seal it sits next to?

There is a reason for this - the rear windows are fixed, the rubber never moves, On the front door though, the rubber does flex a little as the window goes up and down. Try putting the window down and see if the rubbers line up then. If they do, then it's rubber flex and not door alignment. On your photo, the door rubber does look like it has stretched upwards with the closed window when you compare it's bevel to that of the rear window rubber.

You say that this is not the case on the wife's Golf - Is the golf a 5 door? On a 5 door, all the rubbers will flex with the windows, but on a 3 door Golf, the same issue probably applies.

maisbitt,

Thanks exactly what I'm saying; thank you for making it a little more understandable than I managed too

It's not only the windows that I find a bit sub-standard when comparing the scirocco to the golf; the last one she had had over 50,000 miles on when she part-exed and it still didn't have a single rattle.

More worringly I had to turn the key three times this morning before it would start. The first two times nothing happened but a single click, the starter motor didn't actually make any noise at all. Third time though, started now problem at all!!

Any suggestion with regard to this is or is it worth starting another thread?

Cheers