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Re: roof gutter molding Posted by Larry West [Email]  (#1140)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Larry West) on Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:39:04
In Reply to: roof gutter molding, ryan  [Profile/Gallery]
, Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:33:09
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I'm sure its in my EPC somewhere, but they're probably going to be hard to find, and even then only from Saab Parts, unless the European Clubs are going to reproduce them.
They had an interesting history...
99s never had them, far as I recall. Saab actually had a nice bead weld laid down on that horizontal seam between the roof and the quarter panel at the hatch. It is also possible, though I can't recall at the moment, that the 99 sedans had the weld ground flush, as the quarter panel angle was exactly the same as the angle on the back of the roof, and there was a window to install there. Saab never changed the tooling for the roof panel when the hatch came along in 1974! A little 99 lives on in every Classic 900!
Anyway, there was the nice bead on early cars. Then, I think with the 900, or at least in the early days or years of the 900, someone thought the rain gutters needed some "bling", so they came up with a black "cap" that sat on the end of the gutter, and did not cover the weld at all. This lasted only a couple times through the automatic car wash, and someone must have calculated they could save "0.25 hours" of build labor by not paying someone to lay down a nice bead (or maybe the robots can't do nice beads...), so they made a simple weld, and covered it with the modified gutter cap with the black "wing" that covers the weld spot. And a dollop of trim adhesive kept it there through the car wash...
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