Flint Hill Goods In-Channel Rain Guards with Dark Tinting - Front and Rear - 4 Piece

Video Transcript for Flint Hill Goods In-Channel Front and Rear Rain Guards Installation - 2009 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited

Hey everybody, welcome to etrailer.com. I'm Bobby. And today we're taking a look at the Flint Hill Goods, Front and Rear Rain Guards here on our 2009 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. So this is gonna be a really nice way of just going ahead and either replacing your old ones, that may be just a little damaged, like we have here in the back or just giving a brand new rain guard for yourself to start making your life that much easier. So what's great about these guys. You're gonna get a couple of little nice conveniences.

The big one for me is of course, is blocking that rain. So if we we're here in our Jeep, right, and we had everything cranked up and it's a rainy day, I don't know about you guys, but it's really annoying when you have all that window fog actually going on, on the front of your window and then you actually have to heat it up. And it's always a pain. What's nice about these guys, right When you crack those windows down a little bit, get a little bit of air flow and hopefully reduce that need of actually having to turn our heater on, which is great. Can be nice convenience that way to have rolling down that window for yourself.

And again, like we get run over a skunk or something, nice to drop that window, just to get a little bit of air flow and prevent that rain from getting the inside as we crack our window. So it's gonna be really straightforward to set these in. They're gonna be a tinted acrylic as well. So they are gonna block the sun just a little bit, which can be very nice, especially right at the top of that window. I always know how you miss that break, that sun comes through nails you're right in the eye.

So hopefully go ahead and cut down a little bit on that harshness of the sun as well. So nothing too crazy about these guys. They seem like a pretty solid construction comparing them to something like the WeatherTech ones. They feel like they're pretty similar in the material. The only thing is maybe their stripping up here is a little bit smaller than the weatherstripping.

From what I've seen, I've installed these guys on a Ford before they didn't seem to do that great of a job. And I've actually already gone ahead and thrown on my driver's side on our Jeep here today. And I will say they actually did a pretty good job. So let's go ahead and see how we can actually get these installed and how will they work here on our Jeep So first things first, you guys are probably, you're gonna have to remove your old ones or just roll down your windows. You're gonna go ahead and install them brand new. Now, if you do have your old ones, you are gonna have that adhesive. All we have to do, pull it down, work it out, and then bend it to the side, makes it really easy. And then what we wanna do, go ahead and try and get as much debris out of there with the finger as you can. And then we need to go ahead and take our included alcohol wipe and start prepping this. So let me go ahead and grab that and we can do that together. So we're gonna have our little alcohol prep here. Now it only comes in this little tiny strip, really nice to go ahead and put around a finger, insert it and just kind of wipe it around where all our adhesive is gonna be. And you guys can see definitely a lot of gunk in there that we definitely wanna get out. Go ahead and repeat that process just a little bit. Maybe counter fold it, so I'm not getting that dirt in there. And of course, if we're putting our rear ones in, we'll make sure we also are putting our alcohol swipes on, but for just our front here today, all I need to do is make sure I'm getting almost all that out. Now, one thing I'll suggest you can see this isn't gonna go very far. So maybe getting yourself your own little rag or cloth, and then putting the 70% Isopropyl Alcohol on it can be very helpful of making sure you have enough to get all of your window. So while we let our alcohol prep dry, we can just go ahead and begin to remove our red stripping that's blocking our adhesive. So it can be a little tricky to get to, just try to get fingernail underneath it or two, try to avoid pulling up your adhesive as you do it. And then just take the rest off, all the way. Now, what I like to do at this point to, is to make sure I'm not actually putting any contact on my adhesive pad as I actually want it waiting 'til it can be nice and sticky there in the inside. So with our adhesive open and the red tape removed, we can go ahead and insert it. We're gonna start here down at the bottom, towards our mirror, try and insert these guys. Now, as you do insert this, make sure that you're pushing in towards your vehicle. Why that is We don't want our adhesive actually activating until we have it in place, right So I'm keeping away from the ledge that I want it to adhere to. Now, as I go to push this in, come back down here to the middle or the bottom, I should say, we're gonna make sure this is out towards the side here. We actually have a little cutout. It might be hard to see if you guys wanna get an angle shot, right there of what we're looking for and seeing we have a little cutout to make sure we're away from our window. Otherwise this could roll up and actually break our rain guard. So that's definitely something to watch. But now that we have it pretty well situated for ourselves, just gonna do a couple last little checks here going around, but now I wanna pull it towards me and be pushing this adhesive against the inside of my window sill here. That way it actually starts binding and holding itself in place. So we're gonna hold up this position for about 30 to minute, 30 seconds to a minute. And then we actually are gonna need to open up our door and roll up some windows, but we're almost there. So all we need to do now is actually roll up our window. We're gonna roll it up and down about five times. So why we're doing that, pushing up, making sure we're fitting itself, right And as I go up, we wanna watch the sides here, making sure we're not having an interaction. So I'm gonna go ahead and continue rolling up. First thing I'm looking at here is the bottom towards the mirror. Again, we make sure that we're not pinching that and we're just simply pushing it to where we want it. And as we get towards the top here, I'm just gonna go ahead and double check everything, make sure everything's not pushing itself off at all. Adhered a little bit over here. Let me make sure that this is nice and tucked in up here. We don't want it catching itself and we want it to actually stay in position. All right, it looks good. Now I can roll this up the rest of the way. One more push, try to get out of the track of that window can be very helpful and seems to be catching itself in this top corner here. So sometimes this happens and you just need to push it, make sure we're getting it as far away from that window as we can. So that way it actually has room to slide into, and again, just rolling up our window. So we're just simply gonna roll this up and down a couple of times, trying to make it fit right. Again, kinda watching that corner. I'm getting a lot of flex on here and that's just simply 'cause we're trying to make room, right Our windows pushing that in. So about one or two more times here and then on our last push-up here, you also gonna hold it in position. So I'm gonna do it one more time and then I can go ahead, hold it here in this position. We don't need to go too crazy, but now that we're nice and secure, we're looking good. I just wanna double check all my points of contact again, make sure I don't have any gaps or anything, but yeah, looks like we're nice and installed on our front. For our rear guards, all we have to do remove our old one. You guys can see this one been on here more than five years or so. So it lasted a pretty decent amount, but they are susceptible just a lot of UV radiation, a lot of movement with our windows. And that can end up in cracking just like you're seeing. So they last for a little while, right But they are plastic here on the outside of our vehicle. We can just go ahead and grab our new one. Of course, remove our red tape and start setting it in. All right, with that removed, we can go ahead and insert them. To do so, just go ahead and take it at an angle so we can get both of your sides to actually fit in and then bring it up to the top again, pushing into your vehicle so that adhesive doesn't start latching on anything. And then when you have it set, simply pushing once again to the sides to make sure that adhesive starts adhering. With set in place, we're gonna go ahead and roll up our windows, once again. I like to tack from the inside here to make sure these corners are as pushed up against that corner as we can. And that way we have room for our window to slide up just like so, bring it all the way to the top, secure it, bring it down. Repeat this process about five times to go ahead and make sure you have a good fit. We don't have any interaction with our window and our guard. And one last time, and then we wanna roll it up. Now that we have all of our windows rolled up, what we wanna do at this point, leave them rolled out for about 72 hours. That's gonna go ahead and allow our adhesive strips to actually go ahead and adhere to the inside. And we definitely don't wanna move it too much, otherwise you can weaken that hold and they're apt to fall off. So let's go ahead and let them sit for awhile and we're ready to rock and roll with them. Well, now that they're in, I think they do a decent little job here. I'm seeing a little bit of a bind happening every now and then here in the middle. Now luckily here today on the Jeep Wrangler, definitely not too bad. I have good spacing, at least two fingers width all the way through. So I'm definitely not gonna be worried about any kind of contact there with our windows, which is nice to see. I think it really works out well that we have the roll up windows on here. Now I have installed these before on a more power assisted window and just getting this top portion to be easier to manipulate, can be a little harder. You really have to watch it. So I don't know if everybody at home is gonna have the roll-ups. I think we will just with our year of our vehicle. But if you do have those powered ones, for some reason, just watch it as you guys are rolling that window up, just being a little gentle with it. And as you get towards the top, just double check all the positions you're in. Half the time to, this position here by your mirror likes to fold in, and then it can get caught and bend and broken. So just watch as you roll up. But other than that, really nothing to it. We're gonna get a nice little rain guard. Let me hop in really quick just to get quick little look here from the passenger side, at least. And yeah, I like that I can actually probably block that sun that I'd be having, right I can go ahead, I can crack this for a little bit and I can't today 'cause I wanna make sure that these are adhering to themselves. But it's gonna be great that I crack that down, even if it's raining and go ahead and have a little bit of airflow and not get wet on the inside, which is great. So really, really do like how those work. And I think they look good here too on the Jeep Wrangler, which is great and I'm not seeing too much movement. So I know we're a nice installed and yeah, I think it's gonna do great for us guys. Other than that though, I think that about does it for our look here today at the Flint Hill Goods Rain Guards here on our 2009 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. I'm Bobby, thank you for watching..