Short term answer to a long term problem.
If you want to see a long term solution tell your elected officials to impose
a $1 across the board fuel tax. That'll get people interested in improving
fleet economy NOW. It'll also create renewed interest in mass transit and for
that matter bicycles, motorcycles, scooters and the like. Not to mention
increase investment in solar, wind and hydropower.
However we Americans are not interested in solutions, we're interested in
golden bullet bandaids like simply drilling for more oil. No matter how the oil
people say it isn't so, theres a finite amount of the stuff and once its gone
its gone.
-Curt
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If you want lower fuel prices and are a resident of the US, write or
call
your senators and representatives and demand relaxation of regulations
against drilling and refining. In particular, ask them to grow a spine
and
allow drilling in the arctic tundra.
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> More importantly why would it get bent at all?
Slam the door on something. Fall against the open door...
> Still if you answer one question you've undoubtably answered both...
> Anything that can get bent over time could get bent suddenly.
> In this case we don't know if it got bent suddenly, I've only had
> the car about 3 months and its ALWAYS leaked air right there.
The window frame 'fix' involves running the glass down and then
some _very_ heavy-handed (by hand and/or rubber mallet) bending of
the window frame inwards towards the car with the door open. Not
a task for the faint-hearted!
But first you have to be sure the hinge and striker alignments
are up to scratch.
Our 300D Chicken Wagon always leaked air there. Until I bent the
window frame back in. But on a $400 car I wasn't too worried about
breaking it.
I use strips of bicycle inner tube to shim out rubber gasketing.
A dab of weatherstrip glue holds it in place.
-- Jim
