Rear hatch dust deflector idea

Aerodan

Junior Member
What if I cut up a cheap tarp from Harbor Freight and attached it to the bottom of the rear windshield glass inside the rear hatch? The idea is it would create a curtain inside the rear hatch that keeps dust off the window rails and speakers. It'd deflect dust entering toward the bottom of the hatch rather than letting it blow around and get on everything.

Thoughts?

Here's about 10 years of dust accumulation. I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned the rear window rails, including repeatedly wiping them with clean cloth and applying silicon spray lube. However, there's still enough resistance somewhere that the rear window doesn't want to roll up without someone pushing it upward.
 
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I don't have any thoughts on the tarp idea, but I did have an issue with my rear window no longer rolling up or down. The resistance caused it to stop. Ended up being a frayed window regulator cable that was getting stuck inside the sleeve that the cable runs through. Had to replace the whole regulator assembly. Something to look for if the window is having a lot of resistance.
 

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