OEM Part #G3810-65F00

So, you order your rainguards and they show up. You pop open he box and find this:

Aside from your Driver and Passenger side rainguards, Nissan included instructions (only in Japanese, since these are from the JDM market) and a high quality, 3M alcohol-based cleaning cloth to prep the area for the adhesive.

Ok, you've got the box unpacked and thrown away the wrappings, what now? Now it's time to test fit the guards before your install them: DO NOT PULL OFF THE ADHESIVE STRIP COVER! Just set them over the weatherstripping, there's 3 metal clips that need to fit over the weatherstripping, make sure they fit over delicately, you don't want to crack the rainguards, even though they are very robustly made.

Now that you've test fit and all is good, pull off the guard and you can now prep it for final mounting.

First we're going to look at the directions, which are complete with pictures, that may confuse some, but not an uber car buff like you!

And a close up:

As you can see from the picture, you want the clips to sit nice and firmly against the weather stripping and it shows you how to pull the adhesive strip backing away from the rainguards to mount them. (DO NOT PULL THE ENTIRE BACKING PIECE OFF!!!)

Here's the back of the rain guard with the red adhesive backing strip in place:

SPECIAL NOTE: If you bought used rainguards and you are replacing the adhesive strip, you may use 3M automotive-grade double sided adhesive tape, and just cut it to length as you fit it, just make sure and make a break cut in the middle approximately the same place as the break in the adhesive strip in the pictures.

And here's how to pull the backing strip away from the adhesive strip for mounting, as shown in the photo from the instruction booklet:

Basically your pulling the adhesive backing strip away from just the ends, but make sure you pull it past that first clip nearest the camera as if you don't it would be nearly impossible to pull the backing strip out correctly without messing up the clip or adhesive strip itself.

Now it's time to prep the area that will be in contact with the adhesive strip, make sure to clean the area very well with the included cleaning cloth. DO BOTH SIDES at this time as the alcohol in the cleaning cloth will evaporate quickly, leaving it dry and useless.

You can see below the cleaned/ dustless area around the window, with a strong cleaning emphasis on the black weather strip, as that is the piece the adhesive will be in contact with:

Now you want to slid the rainguard clips over the weather stripping, making sure you have all 4 ends of the red adhesive backing strip folded out so you can easily pull them away when the time comes!

Should look like this, making sure it it pressed all the way down:

SPECIAL NOTE: Make sure that the tip of the guard fits nice and tightly around the tip of the weather stripping, as also shown below! You want the guard to sit well as this will be it's final resting place!

It's finally time to pull the red adhesive backing strip away from adhesive strip!

Pull away gently, keeping the backing strip 90 degrees from the rainguard as you pull it away, being careful not to disturb the rainguard. Every 4-5 inches of backing strip you pull away, push down the guard, softly, but firmly, onto the weather strip:

You now have this:

BUT YOUR NOT DONE!

Now that the backing strip is completely gone, it's time to put gentle, but firm pressure on the guard where it makes contact to the car so the adhesive can attach itself to the weatherstripping. You may have to sit there for a while, I spent probly 10 mins per side applying pressure. Also we'll go back to emphasize how important it is to make the bottom/ front tip to fit over the tip of the weatherstripping:

Here you can see the white adhesive after pressure has been applied:

SPECIAL NOTE: You can accelerate the adhesive's setting up process by using a heat gun on low heat or a blow dryer.

CONGRATS! Your done, now it's time to crack open an icy beverage and look at the fruits of your labor. These accent the lines of the S14 so well, especially when complimented by an OEM SE front lip and OEM MCS14 sideskirts!

The best part about this install... you don't get dirty!

New pics added 12/13/06, you can see how low profile these are, but believe me, they make a difference!

-Dan

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Quote, originally posted by Razi »

Sometimes I push it closed with my butt.

After looking at this pic you prolly should have cleaned off the area before appling the double sided tape, I see a plethra of dust all over the car.

Quote, originally posted by rcabrita »

The GT3 looks WAY better the the GTR, that plus when women recognize a Porsche symbol their panties drop... When she recognizes a Nissan symbol, her panties turn into a chastity belt...

If you read the text you'd have read that the area where the adhesive would make contact with was throughly cleaned, and if you look hard enough, you'll see above the weatherstrip is clean. The car is dusty as it's been sitting for some time for other projects. The area the adhesive made contact with was 99.97% dust/ lint free.

-Dan

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IC3: I haven't seen him lately, but I got the rainguards from Chris @ Pinnacle Nissan (Nissanparts.org) on the board, but sadly he quit this week. Try Midwayparts in our advertisers specials forum!!! I don't have the part # on me at the moment, but I forgot to add that to my first post, so I will have it up by tonight hopefully.

Thanks for the comments guys!

-Dan

yeah, would like decide if i am going to get me some

-Dan

Oh like this??

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Nice right up btw

Yep, exactly like that. Hard to tell from the pics, but there's no dust/dirt/crap/dried wax or anything there. That's what old weatherstripping that's been out in the sun looks like.

-Dan

Also, where did you happen to pick these up? I've seen them being sold from a few vendors, is this a JDM Nissan part I can just order from Midway or something?

-Dan

-Dan

-Dan

Thanks! I love it!

-Dan

-Dan

i can't decide eathier. i do like how low profile they are....but i don't know if i like how they jsut kinda stick out....got any pics of how they look from behind??

-Dan