Thread: D2 Rear door seal

Hi
Mine is the same.Apparently the fix is to get flywire PVC cord and slide it up the inside of the seal thru a slit.
Should be able to get it from your local hardware.
Andrew

Originally posted by LandyAndy
Hi
Mine is the same.Apparently the fix is to get flywire PVC cord and slide it up the inside of the seal thru a slit.
Should be able to get it from your local hardware.
Andrew

Yep Bunnings Toy Store

The flyscreen tubing is to seal the cuts in the rubber seals, particularly in the bottom of the doors area. The rear door leaks seenm to be from the seals not even touching the body work. I'm not sure what the solution is though - perhaps additional rubber on the bodywork along the top of the rear door perhaps???

i just ran the flyscreen stuff through all my door seals except the rear (haven't had a prob there). Also siliconed up the stupid gaps in the door seals! Does LR have shares in Dow Chemical (selleys) or what?
I'll let you know if the rears leak during my HC trip next w/e.
BTW, if you use some nice fine copper wire, you can first feed the wire then pull the flyscreen stuff back thru pretty easily.

Lucky they're soooo good in other ways hey???

Hi Wardy
Thanks for the copper wire tip 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
I was only going to do the rear,in doing the fronts does it stop the wind noise when going into a strong head or sross wind???
Andrew

I have used the flywire seal in all the Fenders door seals and it does make a lot of difference, bulks up the average rubber seals. I found that a can of WD40 using the little straw in the rubber before inserting helps heaps.
The seals would work a lot better if the doors actually lined up correctly. Looking at my Fender the doors have a diiference of up to 5mm, very dodgy. I am looking at getting something for the top of the drivers side door which whistles nicely in wind. There is one point in the front corner you can see light. Another job to do.

Thanks alot guys I'll give it a go. Can't understand it though as my 11 yo D1 never leaked there, only at the alpine windows. But then it is a British car :wink:

have just got around to buying the fly screen piping but have had a rethink....saw some Selley's foam gap tubing, in 6 & 10 mm diameters. was wondering if the 10mm would do the trick as the 6mm (flyscreen piping) doesn't look big enough.to bulk out the seal..your thoughts??


ps:-

There is an LR data sheet available that I just got from the 'Links' section of this forum from a chap in the UK which details the fix..removing the seal and building up low areas in the seal flange with Mastik, apparently some of the flanges are misaligned.