Sealing Dormobile pop-up vents

[Zcat7]

I've always had a draught through my Dormy pop-up roof vents when motoring and as days are cooling I'm again thinking about how to seal them better. The rubber seals I have on there at the moment don't reach the inside surface of the vents so the wind whips in and down the back of your neck! I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and found a good solution?

 

[gas1man]

Hi my roof vents sealed nicely with single sided sticky sponge tape. Placed on roof top.
+- 12mm wide about 6mm high and bought from screwfix for about £7 for 7meters.
This is for the pop open roof vents that are opaque.
However my pop top has never sealed to the roof all the way round so breeze creeps in there.
Hopefully will be overcome by the propex this winter. :lol: :lol:

J & P

 

[Zcat7]

Thanks gas1man. Do you apply this stuff onto the existing rubber seal? The existing seal is about 10mm in diameter so I would have to do this for it to work.

How do you get a draught under your pop top, don't you have the bellows fitted? :shock:

 

[gas1man]

Placed the sponge stuff on to the roof so the rubber seals on the sponge.
My bellows have holes in the corners on the hinge side, about the size of two 50p pieces, the problem being ,
they are not a specific shape so nothing will fit . Have to stick a towel in there when travelling or camping. :lol: :lol:

Hope you manage with your roof.

J & P

 

[Trikky2]

Don't know if its of any help but originally there used to be white S shaped mouldings in the roof apertures holding white felt strips, the same strips as the ones used to line the runners where the table stowed under the seat.

 

[Zcat7]

Thanks guys. I went with the foam seal for now (seemed to work OK!). Trikky, will see if I can get some of the proper stuff later from Dormobile, I'm sure they'll still sell it.

 

[user 20733]

Mine has the felt strips and they work fine.

 

[Zcat7]

Mine has the felt strips and they work fine.

Good news. Any chance of a picture please Skutterbob?

 

[user 20733]

Mine has the felt strips and they work fine.

Good news. Any chance of a picture please Skutterbob?

Will try when I am next in the garage

 

[user 20733]

I have had a quick hunt around the web - here is a picture that may help. You can see the white felt strip above the black seal.

http://s125.photobucket.com/user/ejkirk/media/Brighton%20Breeze%202012/DSC01851.jpg.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have you been on the Dormobile website? The roof vent seals including the felt strip are under £15 each

http://www.dormobile.co.uk/pdfs/VWpartsUKEU.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[Zcat7]

Cool, thanks Skutterbob. My seals look nothing like those, which explains the draught...
Yeah, I checked out the Dormy website and spotted that so I will just order some of the good stuff up. I also found a Dormobile owners club! Some very interesting pictures of old models on here -

http://www.dormobile.org.uk/Dormobile_Models.htm

Man some stuff was cool back then but some was surely ugly! -

http://www.dormobile.org.uk/Standard_Atlas_New.htm
http://www.dormobile.org.uk/Leyland_20_New.htm
http://www.dormobile.org.uk/Bedford_CA.htm

 

[user 20733]

Hi, here are some pictures of mine. These were purchased from Dormobile

 

[Zcat7]

Mine just looks like the black part of that seal. I clearly need the real kit in there. Thanks for the pictures!