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Anyone used trim like this on the rear edge of the A pillar as a cab door whistle stop? I've asked for a sample

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Id be interested to see how that works out! anything that will quieten down the ride at motorway speeds would be good!

The sample arrived yesterday so I put it on the van to see how it fit

What do you think peeps?

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so you're proposing fitting a piece from the window down? Can't see how it would stay on meself.....

thats not how factory whistle stops go! they fit to the inside edge of the top half of the door

1664 wrote:so you're proposing fitting a piece from the window down? Can't see how it would stay on meself.....

The trim fits onto the A pillar and would run from the end of the A pillar gutter trim to the bottom of the cab door

jamesc76 wrote:thats not how factory whistle stops go! they fit to the inside edge of the top half of the door.
It was only a thought

I thought factory whistle strips fitted on the inside of the A pillar, as per picture below, and stopped the wind whistling into the gap between the A pillar and cab door?

Cruz wrote:I thought factory whistle strips fitted on the inside of the A pillar, as per picture below, and stopped the wind whistling into the gap between the A pillar and cab door?

by 'factory whistle strips' do you mean factory fitted 'cos there's nowt on my doors much like yours. Were they some sort of option?

1664 wrote:

Cruz wrote:I thought factory whistle strips fitted on the inside of the A pillar, as per picture below, and stopped the wind whistling into the gap between the A pillar and cab door?

by 'factory whistle strips' do you mean factory fitted 'cos there's nowt on my doors much like yours. Were they some sort of option?

My door does not have them. They were optional extras on caravelles and multivans iirc

There was also a rubber gasket that fitted to the top of the cab doors and ran up along the angled edge of the door and then along the top to the B pillar. Part was 171837913F but this is long since extinct

Dont have that problem,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1.6D
m ike

the factory ones are number 14 in this pic (form vagcat) it fits alonf the edge of the door next to it!

heres a couple of pictures of how they fit, borrowed from thesamba

jamesc76 wrote:the factory ones are number 14 in this pic (form vagcat) it fits alonf the edge of the door next to it!

You're right James No.14 (a simple rubber gasket) was factory fitted to higher spec vans along with the main whistle stop handed rail and gasket seals (6a and 6b in image below)

Both rails are available new but one gasket seal is obsolete (about £60 for the 3 available parts). Number 14 in your picture is also obsolete but I have never come across them 2nd hand or seen them referred to as whistle stops. It's always been 6a or 6b.

Hopefully the rubber trim I got a sample of can be a cheap way of stopping the wind whistling around the side of the door. I've never noticed any noise from the top

Cruz wrote:Number 14 in your picture is also obsolete but I have never come across them 2nd hand or seen them referred to as whistle stops. It's always been 6a or 6b.

Seen a good few sets second hand, thats how I got mine, never seen the bottom one, let alone second hand!!

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I was thinking "I don't suffer from whistling doors," then I saw this -

metalmick8y wrote:Dont have that problem,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1.6D
m ike

and thought that's probably why. It just doesn't go fast enough.