cab door seals - what fits??

Hi, can anyone recommend some cab door seals that actually fit?
I had a pair of Just Kampers seals, neither of which was close to fitting the doors...
Plenty of different qualities & companies selling them...but which ones to buy???
German/brazillian quality or gsf repo ones?
help...!

cheers,

 

cheers just after the cab door ones as seems to be quite a bit of difference in price & fit out there.. trying to keep the costs down when the german ones go for £45+ each, compared to the gsf ones at £30 pair. i know the JK ones are useless now.. can anyone recommend any other makes that fit & don't cost a wedge as will need to get a new rear hatch/door seal too.

 

i've got c&c ones a greyish colour nice and soft and an excellent fit :buy cheap buy twice

 

The JK £45 ones are fine I've fitted dozens. Were these the ones you've had trouble with?

 

yeah jk were awful thought it was just me until i checked their feedback forum and people o there were saying the same,.. looking like i'm investing in the c&c ones then.. anyone tried the Brazilian quality ones?

 

Weve got the gray ones from A H Schofields and they fit like a glove. No leaks, no draughts n doors close without having to take a run at it! Cheap JK ones were awful, tristed the doors out at the bottom corners!. You do get what you pay for 8)

 

I had the same problem. I bought the cheaper ones. Not the cheapest, mind you, and they were supposed to be decent but they were about an inch too long.
Now how flippin' hard is it for a stupid manufacturer to notice this and just make them an inch shorter?! It's absurd.

 

the more expensive schofield ones fit well if you glue them in with spray trim adhesive not impact adhesive you will be able to get them out in the future

 

Hi,

I bought the expensive ones from Heritage and they are pants.

They fit all right round the door but the doors don't shut properly. They sit proud by 20mm, and you have to slam it to shut it.

And no, I couldn't adjust it out with the catch....

I'll be going to C&C or Status when I've got the pennies.

Nick

 

my ones dont have the corners at the top they just curve over and i hate them.
if someone know where to get them with the corners in please let me know

 

Hello Aussie. I asked a bloke in the know about this last week. He regularly restores and rebuilds Bays (he'll be helping me put mine back together soon. He said 'never buy the cheapest (seals)'. With this sort of thing you really do get what you pay for. He swears by the seals and rubbers supplied by Status VW. They're supposed to be the best of the best. That's were I'll be getting mine from. http://www.status-vw.co.uk/contact.html

 

mine came from status and fit well

 

Useful thread Late Bayers.
Also suffer from this in two ways
Constant whistling on passengers door (thats with no passenger)
and i drivers door that the seal is splitting at the bottom from being so thick and ill fittng and hard to close.


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I fitted the Grey ones from Custom and Commercial (German Quality) this weekend and found them far easier to fit than the cheaper ones I've had before.

Both cab doors have never really closed nicely so I did the following:


o Removed old seal.
o Took striker completely off.
o Re aligned the door to sit nice in the aperature (this is a mix of adjusting hinges, lifting the door a little as it has sagged thus bending the hinges a tad and on the drivers door I needed a 1mm plastic shim to bring the sag out without having to get too physical on the hinges.
o Put the striker back on and get the door to close nicely on the striker (fidly but worth it)
o Disconnect the door strap.
o Put the seal on, starting at the top and aligining corners first and work inwards (not start one end and work around - start at each end of a straight edge and work to the centre of that straight edge, also, I found that using a plastic spatula helped getting the seal to bed in fully as the channel is not square and in effect you have to tuck the seal in).
o Evostick the front edge near the door strap.
o Re-attach the door strap.
o Give the door a good firm slam and am now leaving the seal to bed in for a couple of days.


I found the grey seals to be a lot more maliable and in effect less dense so easier to compress (to stop the overstuffed duvet look) - I've found on other cars if you get whistling adjusting the door first helps - and sometimes the door itself can be bent a little to get a better fit (my Audi A3 needed this - get someone to put their legs against the bottom as you bend the top in a little).

My slider has never closed properly on the new seal fitted last year - took this off and it closes and locks fine. Comparing the old (new) cheaper seal with the new grey one confirmed that the dimensions are largely the same, but the density and force needed to compress are different.