Gen 4 maintenance

Any reccomendations for rubber seal care. Ya know...the stuff that protects from drying out and going green an stuff. Something that keeps them supple etc??

Thanks.

This form of maintenance seems to be an old fashioned idea now. I was taught to use Girling rubber grease (bright red it was), great stuff. Any petroleum based product will weaken rubber in the end and silicone can cause separation in bushes, etc. To my knowledge current thinking is to let rubber have its life and then replace.
Chris

It's like the tyre dressing sprays many contain substances that shorten your tyres lifespan causing cracks and potentially bead leaks. I would save the money on treating them to go on replacement especially on things like window and door seals.

Andy2640 wrote: Any reccomendations for rubber seal care. Ya know...the stuff that protects from drying out and going green an stuff. Something that keeps them supple etc??

Thanks.

Funny you should mention this, just got this product on recommendation from the detailing site, got it for the Jim and my mini yet to get round to use it but it's on the list in the next couple of weeks

If it's an oil seal then red rubber grease.

If it's an external seal such as a window seal the 303 Aerospace protectant

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When the window rubbers on mine go green and the moss starts budding I clean it out with an old toothbrush, or scrubbing brush if I can find it. The rubbers lasted 18 years on the old one......

I've used Gummi Pflege for a while now. On my previous cars that had pillarless doors it was great for keeping the door seals supple but more importantly for me at the time it helped generate a bit of a barrier between the rubber and glass in freezing weather which meant I could easily open the doors when before they would have been frozen shut.

Whether or not it will work as well with rubber on metal I don't know, but I'll be treating mine periodically. It has its own applicator like a shoe polish system where you just push it on and drag and the sponge daubs it on as you go.

Odd name, but a good product.

Yeah I have heard good things about it

Thats a +1 for me on the Gummi Pflege

I used it on my SAAB exclusively, and as already mentioned it helped stop door and glass seals from freezing themselves together in the depths of an icy winter