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PATAKET
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I actually meant like this...... 
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Alpina Jim
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Looks good to me apart from the colour match  perhaps I need to invest in some glasses?
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jeff4066
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I had the door seals attended to on my car by Sytners at Sunningdale, they did not replace the seals but instead adjusted the door catches to make tthe doors shut a little tighter. It seems to have worked but I will notice it more in the morning when its colder. |
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Toby
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Very interesting. Please update us after a cold morning - shouldn't be too long to wait! I'm still waiting for some time to try the gummi-stuff. I seem to have loads of other jobs allocated to me each time I reach for the bottle.
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PATAKET
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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That's Mission Control for you......................... 
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bowfer
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| jeff4066 wrote: | | I had the door seals attended to on my car by Sytners at Sunningdale, they did not replace the seals but instead adjusted the door catches to make tthe doors shut a little tighter. It seems to have worked but I will notice it more in the morning when its colder. |
That's interesting, because I've always felt my driver's door doesn't 'fit' quite as well as the others.
This is purely based on the fact it doesn't close with the same quiet 'thunk' as the others.
More of a metallic/tinny noise when I close it.
Did you have to ask Sytners to do this???
Just wondering if I should push the dealer to do this before they simply slap some 'goo' on. |
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jeff4066
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| It was on the suggestion of a Sytners technician not my own idea, but I thought to myself yesterday that the doors sounded better when closing them than before. |
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bowfer
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for that, I'll suggest it when I drop the car off next Tuesday.  |
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Toby
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Thought I would post an update to this as I recently finally resolved the creaking door seals. Well I didn't, Birds did. Yes they needed a fair amount of gummy-stuff, but the door stops were also adjusted so the doors don't shut quite so tightly.
Great, no more door seal creaking. However the doors now don't shut quite so flush to the body, although probably only stick out by about 1mm. I'm so hard to please! But I'll definitely take this over the constant creaks.
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bowfer
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| Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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I forgot all about this thread.
But in my car's case, what I thought was a creaky driver's door seal turned out to be something inside the door.
The dealer found that out, to their credit.
A similar problem with my Audi went unsolved for three years. |
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