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I'm trying to warm up the 70's daily before winter by sorting out some of the big drafts. Any recommendations where I can buy rubber door seals? Could be tempted to buy a bulk roll if that works out cheaper and just use what I need... Cheap is good, fluffy green and cheap is even better  A few places sell basic black around £4 a meter which will soon get expensive if I buy enough for 4 doors + tailgate. The fluffy stuff is much more   The shopping list : door seals as above (for 4-door car, so approx 30 ft / 10m ?) boot seal for estate ( approx 10ft / 3m ?) rubber blade for outside bottom of the door windows (4 needed) possibly a length of modern windscreen rubber to refit the tailgate glass (8ft / 2.5m ?) We don't have many useful scrapyards around here so I was thinking of buying new, unless anyone can think of some common scrapyard fodder that will have the types of trim I'm after? Many thanks!  |
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Furflex is the name of that type of trim you pictured.
Phoenix supplies or Woolies, have you tried your local car trimmers?
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Seth
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Baines is good but you need to determine what you need yourself as they don't know the applications. www.coh-baines.co.uk/Funnily enough I've got a near identical shopping list  |
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Last Edit: Dec 7, 2014 2:10:10 GMT by nomad: replace non-working short links with longhand links
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^ links now working - hopefully!  cheers  |
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djefk
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Amazing how much difference replacing all the rubber seals around doors / windows / screens etc. makes to how much you'll enjoy driving the car. Wind whistling through worn door seals or water dripping through screen seals can be a right pain!
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ChasR
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Another thing I shall add is to not be driven purely by price for door seals. On almost all of my BL cars there was a gulf between the difference in different parts from different people. Some lasted far far longer, others perished within a year with the sellers accusing me of being a liar! Amazing how much difference replacing all the rubber seals around doors / windows / screens etc. makes to how much you'll enjoy driving the car. Wind whistling through worn door seals or water dripping through screen seals can be a right pain! He speaks the truth . It should hopefully aid in preventing tinworm as well . |
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Last Edit: Dec 8, 2014 18:02:15 GMT by ChasR
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Seth
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Last Edit: Dec 8, 2014 20:36:09 GMT by Seth
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I think the original door seals are more like this one, with just a lip rather than a full 'hoop' Interesting - I've just double-checked and all seals on mine have "hoops" not "lips" I have a new front screen rubber from Speedy Spares, just not got the tools yet to fit it. I'm looking at univeral rubber to replace the perised rubber on the tailgate glass. In other news Spent most of yesterday replacing the old crumbled foam in the heater with modern blue stuff (which was a mousemat in it's previous life!) The cost? 40p in materials + 1/2 day stripping the dash to pull the heater out, and about 2 weeks worth of hi-caffine coffee! Was it worth it??? er No - it's still "just about warm"   |
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slomoshun
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complete builder solutions will have to google it / down in Kent / mail order ok
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Traction and horsepower is nearing perfection
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slomoshun
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its car builder solutions sorry for mistake
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Traction and horsepower is nearing perfection
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its car builder solutions sorry for mistake Thanks for that - some interesting stuff there www.carbuildersolutions.com/uk/car-boot-and-door-sealsPrices are about what I was seeing on other websites (from about £4/metre), the Baines site Seth mentioned starts from about £2.50/metre |
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Seth
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I think the original door seals are more like this one, with just a lip rather than a full 'hoop' Interesting - I've just double-checked and all seals on mine have "hoops" not "lips" Interesting. Maybe there was a change in spec. My car is quite an early one after all. That link I put up was to a by the metre profile which I think is the correct one. I asked them if they could make and 'endless' rubber to a length I gave them and they said not. I have been pondering whether it would be better to have the split/join at the top middle or the bottom middle. Any idea if there's a convention? |
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