¯\_(ツ)_/¯.... so the Mopar in-channel Window Deflectors showed up today. the front ones installed in like 15 seconds a piece... Like you could do those even if you had never done a set of these ever. Super easy... a bit of an effort getting the wondows to close completely multiple times in a row, but once they do like 3 times they keep repeating, i probly did it like 10x vs the instructions saying only 5... def takes a few more times than that.
Now... the back door ones... ER... MAH.. GERDDDDD. what an absolute biotch. I've seen vids of this install and they have been done a couple different ways... one guy just pushed the little tab thingies into his window trim and somehow they just popped in and slid back and forth freely in the trim (my suspicion is he didn't' get them into the correct track, because once you do, it is next to impossible to get them to slide - thats what the two little teefs are for anyway.). In another vid a dude used tape to mark the position of the tabs, and a screwdriver to pry the window trim out to get the tabs in and then push them back up all together. What I realized after the first one had its way with me for a bit, haha, was that you in fact CANNOT get them into the proper channel w/o pulling the window trim out a little... but i also realized you can very easily pull it out enuff to open and put them in, just make sure they are in pretty much the right spot before (or as) you push it all back into the window channel... then peel the tape, push the deflector up and tuck the tabs under the deflector... Then i used a little pick tool to hold the tabs against the bottom of the deflector and the handle of a little screwdriver to push in and snap the "scrivets" (that word is from the instructions, haha and i am not on board...
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Cleaned my ginzo finger prints off everything and they look great... all things considered i kinda wish i had just gone with the weather techs hahahaha but they look good and nothing cracked with all this manhandling, and you can't
really see the two little scrivet
heads at the top of the rears... oh and the Ram logo is a nice touch.