[s-cars] Wind noise at door driving me nutz!

[Tom Mullane]

I would strongly recommend against this.  The door frame is
adjustable.  Remove the door panel to see the adjustment bolts (4).

Tom


Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:21:18 -0500
From: Kent McLean <kentmclean at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Wind noise at door driving me nutz!
To: chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Scar <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Message-ID: <43A0548E.7070202 at mindspring.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

chris chambers wrote:
 > I have developed some wind noise at one of my doors on both of our 93
 > S4's. If you pull in on the upper portion of the door the
 > noise goes away.

I saw this on one of those gearhead shows a while ago. [1]
I don't think I'd have the guts to try it on my car, but you
may want to think about it.

On the show, they lowered the window, opened the door, put a
2x4 block along the bottom of the door/sill, then pushed on
the upper edge/corner of the window frame to persuade the
upper portion of window frame to move closer to the body.
They adjusted it a little at a time until they were happy.

Disclaimer: I'm in no way responsible if you try this on your
car and it makes things worse.

[1] I forget which one. But they also showed how to test for
air leaks.  Some of the things they did was to close the door
on a piece of paper and feel the drag as you pulled the paper
out; put tape along the door seams to isolate where the leak
was; spray water at the seals to see where it leaked, and put
a smoke machine inside to see where the smoke escaped.  It was
an interesting show.

--
Kent McLean
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke