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20th November 2019, 16:30 | #1 |
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rear door - clips not gripping top of door card
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On my rear door the card is not being gripped by those spring steel clips along the top edge. I think there are 4 of them and the cold in the door card along the top edge. The door has been apart a couple of time but whether the clips are old or maybe the door card is warn where they grip on. Either way it doesn't hold. Anyone know a fix. I don't want to try glue as that would be permanent and messy. Also I don't think it would hold. Any suggestions appreciated. Also that black coated aluminium strip running along the bottom of the window is well corroded and buckled. I thought someone was selling these but they were quite dear. Is that still the case? Cheers and thanks. Jim |
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20th November 2019, 21:24 | #4 |
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I took my rear door cards off, and for a dew weeks, they kept unclipping at the top! I think I hadn't pushed them on hard enough. Every time they popped, I just hit them harder. Eventually, they stopped popping out!
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20th November 2019, 21:44 | #5 |
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Thanks. Can you still get limo rear inner waist seals? I thought they had run out too.
One trick I tried a while back was cutting and butting up two good sections salvaged from two partly corroded lengths. It took a bit of notching but looked okay. Heddy, I like that fix. To be honest it looks hardly noticeable. I have a similar fix. There are plastic strips just inside the sill and as you step in and out of the front seats these invariably get kicked and were forever falling off. Mine are now screwed in place and have never been a hassle since. Again it's hardly noticeable unless you went looking for it! Cheers, I'll have a go at fixing tomorrow. |
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I tried brute force but they simply don't grip. On ebay the clips are ~£2.50 each but the inner waist strip is probably part of the problem as pointed out to me.
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An alternative a member documented somewhere on the forum, was to use two plastic U shaped trims bonded together. The type you see covering the edge of exposed glass doors - another possible alternative would be a double channel type for sliding doors in a display cabinet. Something like this (shop link). Obviously, this will rely on the card being screwed to the door, but it will prevent the dissimilar metal corrosion again. or this
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The best way is to modify the existing clips so they stand taller, giving the door card something to hook onto. The design is diddly.
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21st November 2019, 20:45 | #9 |
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I had a backup plan too. I had some self tappers ready to drive into the recessed part near the edge. But just before I did it, they stopped popping off. The car must have been scared!
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