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Subject:Re: door seals
From:Craig Cowan
Date:Fri, 9 Jun 2017 21:54:44 -0400

In my experience, the new seals will fit extremely poorly for a while until they settle in. In my case, it's got the door operating like its spring loaded for now. I'm told this dissipates after about a year. : /

-craig

> On Jun 9, 2017, at 9:03 PM, Thomas Casal <thomas.casal@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Good People,
> 
> My vans been at the paint shop for 4 months and I finally got it back
> today.  I'm putting new door seals on but I didn't take the old one's off
> the paint shop did so I'm not a 100% certain on putting them back on.  I
> got new seals a while back and they are a bit thicker than the originals
> and not exactly the same.  I'm pretty sure the little holes on the door
> seals should be down and non visible when the doors are open if that makes
> any sense?   Can anyone confirm this?  I'm also guessing i need to adjust
> the door so it closes properly to accommodate the slightly bigger door
> seals?  Sorry to bother everybody with something so trivial.  I just hate
> to glue it down and mess it up and have to tear it all out and do it again
> like usual.  peace tom

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