Door seal restoration

[Michael999]

As seen my door seals were completely ruined, deteriorated, and any speed above 90km gave off wind noise.
New oem seals were going to cost too much, so for $70 of rubber and "3M Weatherstrip adhesive" and a very sharp scalpel, ive done it myself.

The last 2 pictures are the new seal that i glued on.
I cut the old seal off and sandpapered both rubber surfaces with a course grit paper, then applied the glue, it works exactly like a contact adhesive, but much faster.

[kev535i]

great job! you really do have that car in bits! keep up the renovation

[Michael999]

Its all coming along nicely so far, just managed to fit the e46 gear knob tonight as well

You can just see in those pics that ive also put new door liner on, its a more soundproof foam/rubber material, Its my hope that with that and the new seals ill have a VERY quiet cruiser at high speeds.

[Russell]

What is the rubber source? Was it in sheets or tube shaped? I have a tear in on seal I need to fix.

[Russell]

Bump

[Michael999]

Here are some shots of the rubber seal, ordinary rubber and foam shops didnt have anything like this.
You might have to do some hunting, i found the shop quickly because my dad has used them alot over the years due to boat building.
Ask around and see if you can find any shops that sell high quality marine sound proofing, thats what dad went to this shop for, turns out they have EVERYTHING rubber as well

edit: let me know if you want more dimensions, or ones in metric, i assumed you (USA?) would want it in inches.

Oh, and i purchased 3.3m per side and it was just enough.

[Russell]

Thank you. This is most helpful. I will take prints with me when I go to a boat shop. We have several in our area.

[shogun]

Similar seals are also used for example in automatic doors for sealing.
But probably a boat shop is easiest to find it.
Here is a similar stuff for a spoiler
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/showthr...hlight=spoiler

[Michael999]

Yeah thats the prepared door seal.
I looked at using it to replace my doors, but when i took off the bmw one there was WAY too much trim and liner that would be exposed and ugly if you were to drop the felt surround thing.

Shogun in that link you gave me, i cannot quite see how that rubber is joined on to the front bumper.
Im interested in doing this on the 34 as ive got a very rough driveway and it would be nice to have that little protection

[shogun]

Maybe you ask GJPinAU, he is the author and he did it