Leisuredrive GRP roof seal (1 Viewer)

[Weimarunner]

Hi all,

Wonder if anyone has dealt with this before and could offer any advice.

Tomorrow I'm collecting our new purchase, a 2007 Transit Leisuredrive. It's in really good original condition but it is 10 years old and I'll be putting right some small and minor bits of rust. I'm ok with body repairs so no issues here.

The van has Leisuredrives GRP high top. The moulded roof joins the van body neatly around the sides and rear at the vans steel gutter. At the front, just above the windscreen is a seal strip, this strip is a bit of a bad design and has been holding water causing some small rust patches to the steel van body where it makes contact. I wondered if anyone had faced this problem before? I haven't been able to start pulling at it yet but I'm wondering how this seal could be removed, it appears to be pinched between roof and van body ??

I have emailed Leisuredrive but I've not yet heard back.

Thanks in advance. I'm looking forward to tinkering, I'll let you know how I get on.

Pete

 

[Weimarunner]

Hi, for future ref for anyone tackling this job :
Unsurprisingly Leisuredrive never did get back to me regarding the rotted roof seal. I sorted it myself in the end and have hopefully made a better job than the original. See this album for a photos and if anyone needs advise please feel free to get in touch. Broken Link Removed

 

[hilldweller]

We weren't much help, sorry.

Now I'll throw doubt on your fix. That trim, if it's like what I've seen in the past is a metal "claw" with plastic coating. Whenever I've seen it the metal has gone rotten. Hopefully I'm totally wrong in my assessment.

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[The Wino]

Looks a neat job to me but might be like the Forth bridge!! ( but then aren't lots of jobs)

 

[Geo]

We weren't much help, sorry.

Now I'll throw doubt on your fix. That trim, if it's like what I've seen in the past is a metal "claw" with plastic coating. Whenever I've seen it the metal has gone rotten. Hopefully I'm totally wrong in my assessment.

I Concur Brian 100%, Big improvement for now!
But I suspect he found the newish all plastic version

 

[Weimarunner]

We weren't much help, sorry.

Now I'll throw doubt on your fix. That trim, if it's like what I've seen in the past is a metal "claw" with plastic coating. Whenever I've seen it the metal has gone rotten. Hopefully I'm totally wrong in my assessment.

Hi, I use this trim a lot to trim raw grp edges on boats. This particular trim has a stainless metal spline in 75mm sections with 25mm spline free sections in between. If you work out your cut ends to be at the 25mm gap there's no exposed metal to rust.

I edged the wheel house, bulkhead door and the gunnels edges all round on my boat twelve years ago, the boats moored in langstone harbour and takes a bashing in the solent when in use, no signs of any rotting or rusting so fingers crossed for the van.

I can't believe this is how Leisuredrive finished it originally. I was planning on finishing it in a nice neat bead of sika-flex without the use of channel trim until I saw how uneven Leisuredrive had cut the grp edge. I had no option but to trim it, although this time I've sealed all edges so no water can get into the trim.

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[hilldweller]

This particular trim has a stainless metal spline

I apologise for doubting you, you obviously know what you are doing.

 

[Weimarunner]

No problem at all H, glad of all feedback just thought I'd reply for future reference purposes. There is the right kit out there, unfortunately the market is flooded with cheap alternatives that will rust out. Mail order chandlers is the place to look or pester a boat yard for a few meters.