Roof Seam Over Rear Quarter Window

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ed1948

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GM joins the roof section on that edge and I've seen a few go bad (surface rust and perforation). Does the rust start from inside the body or is it caused by the trim around the door? I don't have any visible rust and since the interior panels are off should I apply rustproofing to the inside of that seam?
 
If that seam is still painted after all these years I wouldn't put any rust proofing on it but if there is bare metal I would.....in either case it wouldn't hurt if you did put some in that area.
 
My two cents is no, I wouldnt.

It's just a handful of spot welds holding some panels making contact together. Adding partial seam sealers on certain joining surfaces only increases the likelihood of water being redirected somewhere it otherwise wouldn't have been, and /or trapping said water once it makes its way there.

As far as rust starting, it comes from a number of places. If you have the weatherstrip and/or window trim off the car you will see gm applied some seam sealer, the application being of varying quality, in the corners near where the roof skills and quarter skin met. Water can, and did, enter there along with places like drip rail caulking, humidity condensing and dripping down, so on so forth, all of which aided certain cars in rusting.
 
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