Rear screen

[macky17]

Anyone know in which year they made the rear perspex larger so it would fit better? I'm assuming 2005ish when the mk2 came out. I'm hoping the screens TVR Power sell at £120+VAT are the larger version. Squeaking getting a little annoying.

[NCE 61]

The larger rear screens came out long before 2005, I seem to remember having one on my MK1 around 2002.

The larger screen alone will not stop the squeaking. To stop this even on later models you need to have some of this Tape on the outside top edge and also replace the plastic rear screen clips with the metal ones.

[nawarne]

Yep, my 2004 car has the larger 'top tongue'.

I have put the self-adhesive PTFE (type) tape on the top along with the s/steel clips and I still gat some squeaking. Silicone spray next!

Nick

[macky17]

Thanks folks. Mine is a 2003 so I'm guessing I have the larger screen already. OK, have tried velcro, will try tape and spray next. Clips if all else fails

[JimmyZZ]

On my 2002 Tuscan I also have the bigger one. To my knowledge only very early cars had a screen that was too small. As far as I know this was due to faulty CAD data in the beginning of the production. As result the first rear screans were 5 mm too small all around.

Please correct me if my information is wrong!

[cerbera8]

Try some silicon grease on the rubber seal. Seems to have improved mine

[macky17]

Yeah it's worked reasonably well on the roof. It's only recently I've put the rear screen in due to the colder weather so I haven't got round to trying there. Thought I had the smaller screen as well. Thanks folks.

[S1X OK]

For what it's worth, I stopped my squeaking rear window by adding loop velcro strip along the bottom edge where the boot lid scuffs the acrylic. It rid me of the mouse chorus.

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S1X OK said:

For what it's worth, I stopped my squeaking rear window by adding loop velcro strip along the bottom edge where the boot lid scuffs the acrylic. It rid me of the mouse chorus.

Any chance of a pic of that as I'm having trouble imagining it.

[S1X OK]

What I did was, with the window installed, run a chinagraph pencil along the edge of the closed boot lid. Remove the window and then on the inside trace through the line to the other side and clean off the chinagraph from the outer. This gave me a line to stick the self adhesive velcro on without having a line to clean off (apart from the other side) when the job was complete. Then apply the half inch or thereabouts woolly velcro in a single piece, trimming it to fit the edge of the perspex. This then provided a cushion on which the perspex would sit with plenty of space for variation when the window is repositioned, as it does. Sorry, I don't have photographs. The car has just come back from Central where they applied a different material to the screen, so my velcro is no longer in place. It definitely did the job and got rid of those confounded squeaks, particularly noisy in warmer weather.