Description
This bendable U-Channel strip is adapted to be mounted in the curved u-channel rail that the HT-Rutan slides in. The length is 77 cm, unfortunately it is a little too short on one side because the u-channel rail is 80-87cm depending on model year. What you can then do is leave a piece at the end of each side, or cut the u-channel strip in two parts and leave an empty surface in the middle of the u-channel rail. Or you can buy 3 u-channel strips and join them so that it is enough for 1 car. Then glue it edge to edge so that it covers the entire rail. You simply have to check your car and your rail how it will be best to do. This is what you can do when installing the u-channel strip: Scrape away the remains of the old U-Channel base, check picture number 1 Thoroughly clean and de-rust the rail if necessary. Surface treat the u-channel rail and then glue the new u-channel strip in the rail, a good glue for this is Glue and seal KEM-1003. Make sure that the U-channel strip goes all the way down to the bottom of the sheet rail, fix with e.g. forcing while the glue dries. This U-Channel is a newly manufactured replacement that does not have the same depth in the U-Channel shape as the original, but that doesn't matter, the function is the same. Of course, we have test mounted on our own cars and it will be a perfect result, just make sure you think first and mount later. ATTENTION! They only fit the HT-Rutan on cars with a fabric roof / Cabbar. A car requires 2 or 3 U-channel moldings, depending on how you want to do it.
