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How to remove damaged reveal windshield moldings and replace it with a new one
Hello, I need to replace both damaged windshield reveal moldings to my car as their especially lower part lets water from rain inside but I am afraid not to damage the glass of the windshield when attempting to remove the moldings clips. Can you please tell me how to safely do it? Thank you very much.
Yes, I assume as well that the water ingress at your X400 happens where your cabin air-filter is - the second link in rx-7's post shows pictures of the opening in the firewall behind the cabin air filter. So, that water ingress is unrelated to the shabby looking windshield mouldings. Those moulding do not have any sealing function. They are just optical add-ons - and due to poor design, there are now very shabby looking add-ons. If you want to do something about that - I wrote a post about that:
Peter, what you show me is your replacing the reveal moldings with rubber replacement. I wanted to know how to work with the retainer clip tool removal under the existing damaged Jaguar x type moldings without damaging the glass of the windshield underneath. All I saw online referred to different cars but the removal clips system shouldn't be different. I will try to do it when my tool and new replacement Jaguar x type molding arrive.
They just snap out. But they don't seal anything as far as water in the cabin.
If you have a leak on the floor it's almost certainly from the air intake intake box under the long the plastic cowl as I and others have stated.
I bought and used this aftermarket strip from Temu. Mine were just old, ugly and crumbling. I removed the loose stuff (NOT overly aggressive or concerned with remnants).
Cleaned it and used some alcohol wipe to ensure strip sticking. Easy to apply and have no problems with it lifting or peeling up or anything. I did it purely for aesthetics.
Last edited by Dell Gailey; Jul 31, 2024 at 07:09 PM.
Dear Mr rx-7 tt, unfortunately I did not have this info at the time of my purchase of the two moldings which, due my past experience with my transam 72 years ago, made me believe that I needed retaining clips for which I paid $20 plus a removing clips tool for which I paid another $20. A total of $40 which is not worthy to fight for. But the moldings themsleves, you are right, just snap out/in was all I needed to do, no extra clips. I do not have leak on the floor, all I had wet at a time when I was alarmed by my battery red light was a mice bulging nest in front of the cabin air filter not the filter itself. The ugly moldings were replaced with new ones but at a big price.... The cowl has a defective snap on part to the windshield which was completely damaged so I strugle with a tape covering the cowl at the place where it meets the windshield but stupid rain doesn't seem too impressed by my artistry and slips between cowl and windshield. Thank you.
How to remove damaged reveal windshield moldings and replace it with a new one
