<VV> more perimeter seals & staples

[Vairtec Corporation]

Mark Corbin wrote:

> In truth, companies always try to make changes for the better on cars they
> redesign. Also, when confronted with a new situation, they either have to
> adapt existing designs and methods to it or think up a whole new way of
> doing things. 
>
> The perimeter seals are a good example. They chose the "quick and dirty"
> way and ran with existing methods, something they obviously thought they
> could get away with. It's only later that they discovered that it didn't
> age well in real-world service. So since the car was going to be redesigned
> anyway, it gave them the opportunity to get serious about the seal and
> design a better way of doing it. 

I tend to think that the inspiration for the perimeter seal redesign had 
little to do with "better" and even less to do with service life, and 
was driven mostly by cost and ease of assembly.

--Bob