[T3] Door seals

[Jon Remers <pigal66@yahoo.se>]

I have used VW Golf II door rubbers to seal the rear
wheel well to rear wing joint. (bad english, I know..)
I think I had to cut some stuff of with a knife but
don't remember. When I removed the rear wings after a
few month of driving, it seemed that they had not been
leaking. Modern rubber seem to be softer and more
pliable, I like that even if it ain't 100 %.

 --- Air_Cooled_Nut <air_cooled_nut@pobox.com> skrev: 
> The advantages of working for a car company ;-) 
> Just like the computer
> advantage I had when I worked for Intel :-)
> 
> The DDB seal will go completely around the door
> opening, however, it does make
> closing the door more difficult and there's the same
> issue John had with the
> sill.  I opted to trim mine so I stops at the sill. 
> There is not an
> additional piece for the sill area in the DDB
> package.  I do have my original
> seal still on the door; removing that would probably
> make closing the door a
> little easier but it's no big deal.  Brooke doesn't
> have any on-door seal and
> his works just as well (his is the green car in the
> pictures).  John's idea of
> trimming the sill plate would work for the DDB seals
> as well.
> 
> The only issue I have is when I pass a 18-wheeler,
> I'll get a slight draft
> from the bottom of the door, along the sill area. 
> Brooke says he doesn't feel
> it in his car.  The likely reason I do is because of
> my rag top, thus my car
> isn't "air-tight" like a stock one would be.
> 
> 
>      Toby Erkson
>      air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
>      '72 VW Squareback, '95 VW Jetta GL, '81 Gold
> Wing GL-1100, '73 Porsche 914
>      http://www.icbm.org/
> > On Oct 31, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Dave Hall wrote:
> >
> ...
> > I did use Ford Focus door seals.  They work quite
> nicely, but are a
> > little stiff for our doors. . .  They also
> increase the door closing
> > efforts.  I think with some time they will settle
> in and these two
> > minor issues will go away.  They seal really well.
>  With everything
> > closed and the windows up, the sunroof poofs up to
> release the pressure
> > when the door is closed.  Doors close much easier
> when the sunroof is
> > open.
> >
> > It does take slightly more than one Focus seal to
> go completely around
> > the door opening.  I had to add about an 8 inch
> piece from a third seal
> > to each side.  Now I am going completely around
> the door opening,
> > including along the sill, with a single length of
> bulb seal (plus the
> > extra 8 inch piece).  This is a bit different that
> the DDBs solution, I
> > think.  The DDB stops at the edges of the aluminum
> sill plate and then
> > has a seal on the door for the bottom edge. 
> Correct Martin?
> >
> > To go completely around I had to modify a set of
> sill plates, since the
> > pinch welt for the bulb seal would not fit over
> the sill plate.  I
> > basically trimmed off the part of the sill plate
> that goes over the
> > flange on the body.  I left the outside vertical
> flange so that it is
> > captured by the pinch welt of the bulb seal.
> 
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