In my experience, the new seals will fit extremely poorly for a while until they settle in. In my case, it's got the door operating like its spring loaded for now. I'm told this dissipates after about a year. : / -craig > On Jun 9, 2017, at 9:03 PM, Thomas Casal <thomas.casal@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > Good People, > > My vans been at the paint shop for 4 months and I finally got it back > today. I'm putting new door seals on but I didn't take the old one's off > the paint shop did so I'm not a 100% certain on putting them back on. I > got new seals a while back and they are a bit thicker than the originals > and not exactly the same. I'm pretty sure the little holes on the door > seals should be down and non visible when the doors are open if that makes > any sense? Can anyone confirm this? I'm also guessing i need to adjust > the door so it closes properly to accommodate the slightly bigger door > seals? Sorry to bother everybody with something so trivial. I just hate > to glue it down and mess it up and have to tear it all out and do it again > like usual. peace tom |
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