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Anyone help me out on this one?

Bit different than normal, the rail stops at the wheel, and is then above the wheel arch.

Rails are enclosed at both ends of the van, so I am guessing it would be model specific.

Appreciate any pointers

The skirt can exit the rail just in front and just behind the wheel, the rail changes to allow this, there is another rail above the wheel arch to thread the wheel cover into which I join to the skirt with a figure eight joiner thingy.

Quote: Originally posted by lrogers on 02/5/2007

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The skirt can exit the rail just in front and just behind the wheel, the rail changes to allow this, there is another rail above the wheel arch to thread the wheel cover into which I join to the skirt with a figure eight joiner thingy.

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Thread the skirt through the rail from the wheel to the front, then from the wheel to the back.You will have some skirt actoss the wheel.  The top of this section needs some rigid plastic strip whcih has a channel top and bottom, so it looks like a figure of 8 in cross section.  This keeps it nice and rigid. Then you realise you should have threaded that onto the middle bit of the skirt before you threaded the skirt onto the rail either side of the wheel!  You then have another bit of rail above the wheel. Thread another bit of skirt into that rail.  Then you realise you actually need to have a piece with beading on both edges, so you can thread it into the rigid figure of 8 stuff which runs across the wheel. So you end up just tucking it behind the figure of 8 bit.  Is that any clearer?

(Or you can thread it upside down into the fig. of 8 bit, and velcro the top edge onto the side of the van.)

Can you see I am speaking from experience?

Hi all

I had some spare draught skirt from an old porch awning so i cut two strips to length (the same width as the awning rail above the wheel arch) turned one upside down so that there woul be a piece of plastic at each end one to slot into the figure of 8 rail joined to the main draught skirt and the other to slot into the awning ral above the wheel.

You can join the two pieces of awning skirt with bostic or similar bonding agent

Hope this helps

Andy