Door seals...

[NiceCupOfTea]

Hope you can help me in here folks, not having much luck on the '5 forums...

I am getting a wet seat (sometimes, not all the time) and constant dripping from between the join between the front and middle window rubber seals.

I'm going to try a few things when I have a mo - adjusting the catch, moving the metal bits inside the rubber out a bit, silicone lube on the rubber. New hood a couple of months ago (it leaked before).

Something that may or may not he related, and it is winding me up, is the driver's door seal is not seated right. The bit of rubber trim that the window slides up and down in sticks way too far up (in fact, a bit came off the other month). It's not joined on to the rest of the door seal, I have no idea if it should or not, but it doens't want to seat correctly.

Looks like this:





Any ideas?

[JFReturns]

Mine don't look like that! I think yours are completely warped.... I heard that the seals are quite expensive but you can pick up a complete door for not very much.

[J-Tuner]

might be that the window is pressing too hard on the seal as it goes up? I know you can adjust the glass and take the pressure off a bit - may help?

[S7Paul]

The entire door seal is a complicated one-piece moulding. It starts as the vertical window guide buried in the door, goes up to the top of the door, down the front edge of the quarter light and continues right around the door and back up past the door handle. The fact that it's all one piece means that (unless it's broken) the window guide can't do what yours has done. So, regardless of anything else, you need a new door seal. We got ours from MX5parts (mainly because they're local). I see they're £70 at the moment.