You really need to get loads of the sealant behind the outside seal and bodywork. You just keep on pumping until your hands ache. It does take a surprising amout of sealant to fill the all the gaps. You need a finish as below in the picture, so the rain just runs off and none of it goes behind the seal. It just forms a small lip of sealant. If you have done it right the outside of the seal should be bulging and full of sealant that stays pliable.
Technical Leaking windscreen
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Technical Leaking windscreen
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..an acknowledgement to this better late than never.
Recently I've been fitting windows to my campervan. The seal is bought by the metre and uses the filler-strip, which is available in black, white and chrome-effect. I had always been a bit sceptical, thinking the 500L used it for visual marking to indicate that it is the "Luxury " version of the car rather than for practical reasons.
Bu having now gone through the process of fitting about 8 metres of this stuff I realise that it surely must have a positive effect in preventing rainwater leaking into the car. You can see the rubber snuggling up to the glass and bodywork as the strip slides into its groove.
So if my windscreen ever needs replacement in future I will buy the "L"-type seal and (because my car is an "F"), I will use a black, rather than the chrome filler-strip.
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..an acknowledgement to this better late than never.
Recently I've been fitting windows to my campervan. The seal is bought by the metre and uses the filler-strip, which is available in black, white and chrome-effect. I had always been a bit sceptical, thinking the 500L used it for visual marking to indicate that it is the "Luxury " version of the car rather than for practical reasons.
Bu having now gone through the process of fitting about 8 metres of this stuff I realise that it surely must have a positive effect in preventing rainwater leaking into the car. You can see the rubber snuggling up to the glass and bodywork as the strip slides into its groove.
So if my windscreen ever needs replacement in future I will buy the "L"-type seal and (because my car is an "F"), I will use a black, rather than the chrome filler-strip.
I bet you had sore fingers after putting all those in!
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I bet you had sore fingers after putting all those in!
...too right...they aren't back to normal yet and that was a week ago. I had to take a week's breather before doing the other side.....I think it's given me Arthur-itis.
But in comparison, the little tool that puts in the filler-strip is no strain on the fingers at all and is also a great help in manipulating the edges of the glass in safety. 
