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Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean the dirty/soil accumulated in/behind it?
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On your own car you can remove the seals if you want, though on a customer car thats a big NO though cleaning around them as much as possible and applying a dressing to the rubber healthy is the way I would go
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Re: Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
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Re: Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
To give you guys a better context for my question. I'm starting a production mobile car wash business.
Sometimes there're lots of soil accumulated inside/behind the rubbers.
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Re: Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
I'll never remove weatherstripping to clean because they never go back on right again!
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Re: Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
I would NEVER remove a rubber door seal to clean behind it unless a customer specifically asked me to. Reason being that some door seals are NLA other's are VERY expensive should you incidentally damage one during removal or reinstallation.
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Re: Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
One word...NO!
Not even on my own vehicles. As said above, 99% chance of 'them' not fitting like they should, just not worth the hassle or worry.
Bill
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Re: Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
Not on a bet. I know how the dirt can accumulate around the seals and if you really want to clean them get a soft, long bristled paint brush and some Q-Tips
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Re: Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
I just use a brush and some apc to clean them, anything after feels too aggressive for me.
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Re: Do you 'detach' the door rubber seals to clean?
Meguiar's #39 is also great stuff to use there, one-pass clean in many cases (and tips, brushes when needed as said above, sure).
Whenever I have a towel moisten with 303 aerospace protectant, before putting them to the wash bin I may pass that towel on the rubber seals for a spotless detailing. Just a simple tip for getting the most of your products being used whenever possible, and the rubber will look almost factory good (sure, depends on case but improvements are mostly always noticeable).
The 'lightly moisten' towel with remaining product helps to avoid streaking at painted parts, although 303 is very easy to be wiped off from paint with a MF towel.
Be sure to only apply protectant (if you will) to 'squeaky clean' rubber seals, otherwise you may do some mess...
And for the same reason as cited above by our friends, I won't remove seals as well, sorry, but I can still make good work of them, that's true.
So you will.
Good luck,
Kind Regards.
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
― Isaac Newton
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