E24 door seal

Have you gotten a price from a dealer?

Get the part number on http://www.realoem.com/bmw/select.do (under archive) and then ask them

Will do cheers lads.

My mate said he would fit it for me he has a body shop ,i best not tell him i,ll just give him the seal and get out quick!!!

   Thats what mates are for

AndyS wrote: .....They're a sod to fit on your own too unless you have 3 ft arms.

Here's a guide


And you'll probably need to adjust the door glasses afterwards.



Edited by m3Cecotto

Sorry,

Following a question in the "Exterior" section:

Mike635 wrote: I'm about to replace the seals around the door apertures of my Highline (they're badly split and leaking). Has anyone done this who can offer any tips please? I heard it was not as easy as it seems...

....it was about time I did my own replacement. As luck would have it, the ever-helpful "JT" had been there already:

JT wrote: Yes!  Just did mine.

...and had some ready instructions. Couldn't really go wrong, right :?:  I printed out his guide and set to work. What now follows is a photographic guide with JT's original hints, and my acerbic comments:

You need to remove the trim at the floorboard (only the piece that has the screws in it)

and the interior b-pillar trim (two screws at the bottom, and the two screws at the pull strap).

What he said.

The old seals will pull right out.

Copy that, Houston



Now this is an opportunity to show you just how badly perished my old l/h door perimeter seal was:





You might want to have a closer look at yours now. Both sides. Years of having the windows hitting the seals won't have done them any good, even if you use rubber preservative.

At the top of the frame, there is a channel that the new one will slide into - clean it well, then lubricate it.  I used silicone spray.

At which point, Drew chimed in:

Drew wrote: I used fairy liquid as the lube!!

Not having any silicon spray to hand, I went off to the kitchen sink:



There is indeed a metal channel leading back from the A-pillar, and following the roofline all the way to the B-post:







What JT and Drew probably didn't have was this entertaining little kink in the channel:



Whatever, I got the "new" seal out....



It's the one at the bottom.

JT wrote: I also cleaned & sprayed the top part of the seal that fits into the channel.  Starting at the forward part of the channel (nearest the engine), feed the upper rear corner of the seal into the channel.  Pull the seal back into the channel, while continually feeding it into the channel at the front.

Ha, this is easy.



Really easy.

JT wrote: Working with two people might be quicker - working alone, I misfed it a few times and had to pull it back out part of the way to get it reseated properly.

Drew wrote: much easier with two, going up the A-pillar is easy enough but once you're heading down the roof line you need someone to ensure that it doesn't pull off at the corner whilst you're pulling and pushing it around the track.

Now they tell me. There I was sliding easily along the channel, and all the time the little fecker hadn't actually gone into the channel at all. It took three goes to get this anywhere near right.....

2 hours later, including the entire output of a Clannad album, I had reached here:





When the grooves in the door seal properly engage INSIDE the channel, getting the whole thing to slide along is about as easy as trying to put on  an extra-thick reusable condom. ......Actually, you might not want to quote me on that  :?

A little extra spray might be helpful from time to time.  Once it's pulled up snug to the corner the rest is a breeze, as it just presses onto the flange.

Do you know how much Fairy Liquid went in there?

But it must have all worked, because:



...and the door actually shut properly with the window rolled up.  8)  I was well-pleased. Well-pleased until I spotted this:



The end of the seal had refused to go into the channel. This means at some point I'm going to have to do this all over again

Having moaned about this by firing off a few text (SMS) messages to various people, I had one response from a former E28 M535i owner and, thinking about it, what he says has a certain validity, and I quote:

And thus is the key to old car ownership. It will let you know when there is a problem. Otherwise, just enjoy. Like a wife but 1000 times cheaper...... And it doesn't tell you to wear a different shirt

black m6 wrote: Does anybody want to buy a m635 with a split door seal. only joking but not looking forward to it.

If ye're in London, I'm happy to do it for ye. Expect it to take a few hours, though

black m6 wrote: ...Big thanks to M3 Cecotto for the pictures have printed them off so will come in very useful.

Should do. I wrote that Guide, and that's my car in the photos