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Old 11-03-2013, 08:23 AM   #731
Migero86
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I got a bit of condensation on my passenger side the other week... I took it off, dried in the over for about an hour @ 185F. While this was happening I noticed that the gasket material is not exactly resilient or dense enough to stop water. The material they used is a joke, like somebody decided, hey I have this roll leftover in my moms attic from her sewing days, lets use that.

So I ordered myself some closed cell high density neoprene rubber sheets and I am going to make myself a gasket like the ones on this forum and then seal the top of the tail light where it meets the body panel.

I know we as owners shouldn't have to solve Toyotas design flaws but I love driving this car too much to care or to wait for some corporate lackey to pull his head out of his ass and resolve something that a 5th grader could of done using a crush and resiliency test in their science project.
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