Thread: Rear door seal

I have the same issue, so I'll be watching for any good advice too. Mine let's in quite a lot of fine dust but seems good tho. The door is quite hard to shut which makes me think the seal is good so I'm confused...

Hi,

Dust sucks at the best of times especially when you have just Armour all'd the dash!

I have not had this problem on my Disco however I have had the same problem in a truck I was driving. The truck has a similar seal around the door and the rubber was in fair condition for its age. Still supple and no cracks.

I found that the problem was the surface on the door where the seal makes contact. Easily over looked but it takes both surfaces to be clean and flat to keep the finer stuff out. I found that over time the passenger door (which is rarely used) had a build up of crap form over time where the seal makes contact. I ran my finger along this line of crap and was suprised how brittle and rough it was. Cleaning this off to a shiny surface made a big difference.

Start with this, I hope it a least helps reduces the dust and water ingress.

Summers are quite dusty in my area and had always had this problem, specially in corrugated dirt where dust just hammers in through every possibly crack.

Replacing the rear door seal did not cure it. Ended up sticking supplemental tubular type rubber weatherstripping in the actual door to seal against the stock one.

Rgds
Matt

Known problem and the fix is something akin to what mturri has done,supplemental seal around the door where the frame seal meets. finding one with a sufficiently strong adhesive is the trick. standard window/door draft seal rubber does not stay put for long!

Use your creativity around the latch mechanism with the supplemental seal to keep the dust out of that area and you will avoid problems with the cargo door latch failing, another common problem.