Door Seal

[Alan Whitaker]

Hi All.
How close is your door seal to the side of the body, I have the seal against the frame up each side of the windscreen but when it goes over above the windscreen it is in and out with a gap of 13mm max , don't know if it should touch the body over the windscreen,

Alan

[phillpot]

HI Alan,

I've been fiddling around, trying to sort a water leak or two on my car and just this morning a six metre length of door seal arrived. Off to work now but it's "tomorrows job" so I'll let you know, providing rain doesn't stop play


Without looking a gap along the top does sound right.

[Alan Whitaker]

Hi Mike
The fiberglass edge the trim fits is 12mm and in some places is 27mm, like a dogs back leg, will you put a picture up of the top after the new seal, please.

Alan

[Alan Whitaker]

Hi All
Pictures to show how it is, is this the normal.

On the side it's tight up to the body




Gap starts to open up




Over the top of the screen its way out

[HvdWeerden]

Hi Alan,

On my S3 it is different, but my door seal looks different as well. I bought it from David Gerald some years ago. Make sure you have the correct section door seal.

[v8s4me]

My V8S is the same as Han's. I think the idea is any water runs along the channel at the top and down the sides so hence the gap.

[phillpot]

Alan Whitaker said:

Hi Mike
will you put a picture up of the top after the new seal, please.

These are pictures of the original seal before I removed it...............

Screen pillar

Corner

Across the top

Across top seal removed

Screen pillar seal removed



HTH


PS tapping the new seal is one of those strangely satisfying jobs, but getting the tight bends at the ends is fun!

[Alan Whitaker]

Thanks guys, looks like it's normal the way it is

Alan