Those seals along the roof...

[ilovemycar 0]

Can you buy new seals? The strips that run along either side of the roof, the black rubber/plastic seals, are starting to perish, and I'd like to replace them before winter. Sorry to sound so vague but I can't think what else to call them!

 

Also the sunroof rubber seal looks pretty sad as well - do I need a stock part for this?

 

Thanks!

[vr6storm 0]

yip.................roof strips.............better have a chair handy for when you hear the cost tho

[davidwort 0]

Can you buy new seals? The strips that run along either side of the roof, the black rubber/plastic seals, are starting to perish, and I'd like to replace them before winter. Sorry to sound so vague but I can't think what else to call them!

 

Also the sunroof rubber seal looks pretty sad as well - do I need a stock part for this?

 

Thanks!

 

should be able to get them all from GPC or VAG, but with the roof rubbers they don't look too bad if you just trim off the thin perished edge bit all the way along with a new stanley blade.

[toon vw 0]

just bought some new ones from the stealers £98 ish for the pair

[vr6storm 0]

you can get them slightly cheaper from GPC.....tho you have to factor in PnP

[KADVR6 0]

bought mine from gpc ast gti international, £65 all in, as they dont charge VAT at shows :wink:

[vr6storm 0]

me too :D

[ilovemycar 0]

The thin bit is all coming away anyway, no need for a stanley knife! Holy crap, £65 best buy? Will it be ok to leave them then with the thin bits taken off? They won't leak and make the roof corrode?

 

How about the sunroof seal? Wait, I hear it coming, my credit card is groaning already...

[vr6storm 0]

they're mainly there for cosmetic purposes and don't really seal anything

[craigowl 0]

ilovemycar wrote:-

Holy crap, £65 best buy?

How about the sunroof seal? Wait, I hear it coming, my credit card is groaning already...

 

I think I love this lady already!

[ilovemycar 0]

If they are mainly cosmetic, I'll spend the squids on getting the handbrake sorted out instead then. It sounds like a really old person being poked with sticks when it has to hold the car on any sort of slope. Kind of screeching and groaning. It's embarrassing.

 

Thanks for your input everyone!

[CoxyLaad 0]

best leave it in gear then! or you may end up doing a Walesy

[ilovemycar 0]

It squeals even in gear, especially when I get in or out of it if I have to leave it on a slope, it kind of graunches - and I'm not really that much of a salad dodger! Must fix it!

 

ps, what's a Walesy?

[fla 9]

How would it look if you simply reomved the roof strips and polished up the whole area?

[CoxyLaad 0]

what's a Walesy?

Imaginethe handbrake failing and the car goes on a rampage nearly wiping out an entire coastal village. Thats about it :lol:

[vr6storm 0]

as if summat was missing

[g60greeny 0]

it would look shockin with out them as the gap is quite deep,just trimmed my knackered bits off mine an reckon they'll look well when i refit them