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d1mkaz
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Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:36 am

some seals look old and hard, particulary cabrio hood seals, did anyone tried rubber renewing products, any advices, after searching in-net found this:

http://www.zymol.com/zymolseal85oz.aspx

is this good? may be something else?
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Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:01 pm

Zymol don't make crap products, but cannot perform miracles on knackered old seals :)
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Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:38 pm

Nothing is going to make a knackeres seal perfect again, Zymol Seal is a very good product but pricey, I use Einszett Gummi Pflege on mine and customers cars, you should clean the seals with all purpose cleaner before application though.

http://www.shinearama.co.uk/product.php ... -GUMMI-100
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d1mkaz
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Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:43 pm

powelly wrote:Nothing is going to make a knackeres seal perfect again, Zymol Seal is a very good product but pricey, I use Einszett Gummi Pflege on mine and customers cars, you should clean the seals with all purpose cleaner before application though.

http://www.shinearama.co.uk/product.php ... -GUMMI-100
thanks
after little research decided to change all seals... and look after them a bit more :)
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Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:41 pm

try silicone grease
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Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:31 pm

seal feed by swissvax, not the cheapest but (did) a really good job on mine.
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