Supposedly not ...... but if you have doubts, you can get a piece of
standard black house window screen molding - it's round and holds the
screen in place - soap it or spray with silicone - some say use WD40 -
and using one of those screen installing tools - simply roll/force the
plastic into the space where the chrome molding was.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Gilles Turmel wrote:
> Hi,
> Is the chrome molding necessary to retain the rear hatch window?
> Best regards.
> Gilles Turmel
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