Door trim and weather seal

[rover3l123]

I obtained 4 new weather seal strips from Scotts Old Rubber and have started to try to fit them. I have the first one inserted into the aluminium door trim but I have not been able to successful get this back on the door. The aluminium does not seem to lie flat to the door and if I get the front part on to the clip that is riveted to the door it pops off as I start to apply pressure to the remaining part of the trim.

I am including a couple of photos and would be interested to know if the arrangement of the clips is correct

[Phil Nottingham]

Yes but you can also shim the door hinges too

[barryr]

I think you are making same mistake I did first time.

You fit the clips to the door not to the trim. Then put the trim on carefully and using soft wedges etc fit the trim on the clips.

I've done the back doors on mine but do far failed to get the fronts off as the rubber of the quarter light is over the top of the trim.

Hope this helps? - not sure what Phil meant in his reply!

[rover3l123]

Thank you for this advice. Could you explain more how you used the soft wedges as I am unsure what you mean

[barryr]

Sure, i just meant that after lining up the clips on the door frame and then starting to fit the trim I used a rubber mallet and the softest bits of plastic I had knocking around in the garage where I didn't have space to swing the mallet to avoid damaging the trim.

I bought my weatherstrips through the club some years ago and they were quite twisted after sitting around.

Hope this helps?

[rover3l123]

Sept 8, 2012 0:07:32 GMT barryr said:

Sure, i just meant that after lining up the clips on the door frame and then starting to fit the trim I used a rubber mallet and the softest bits of plastic I had knocking around in the garage where I didn't have space to swing the mallet to avoid damaging the trim.

I bought my weatherstrips through the club some years ago and they were quite twisted after sitting around.

Hope this helps?

Thanks I see what you mean. I gave a try this morning and managed to get one end of the trim onto the riveted clip attached the door but as soon as I try to position the other end of the trim towards the moveable clips on the door the end I had already attached sprung off. I tried further a few times but I don't seem to be able to get one of the ends to stay in place while I am handling the opposite end

[barryr]

Out of interest have you tried a rear door?

I've done those first as they seem easier. On my front doors the quarter light rubber overlaps the trim and I can't seem to get them off easily. I was going to check with other owners if they are meant to me like that. I wondered if this is the difficulty you are experiencing as well?

The wsm isn't. Massive helpful in this regard.

[rover3l123]

Barry

I had not tried a rear door as I was losing confidence after failing with the front doors. However, after your post I decided to try this morning. They came off and went easily and so I agree with you it is the fronts that are the problem.

Looking at it again, I think the only way is to remove the quarter light so that there is nothing in the way of fitting the trim. I recall doing this once on a P4 and it was a bit of a pain as it was necessary to strip down the door trim to gain access to the fixing screws etc.

Hopefully someone else can speak about their experience with doing this job

Geraint

[barryr]

Yes I think you are probably right about removing the quarter light - not good news - although one of mine is seized anyway and could use soaking upside down.

I've not yet compared my car to another so wasn't sure if the quarter light rubber was meant to be over the window trim or not.