door rubber lubricant what you using? Also rubber exterior seals dressing?

[JoeGTI]

I've always used Gummi Pfledge on the door rubber / felt seals and it's worked wonders. Great stuff IMO.

[Snoopy]

Gummi pflege is crap IMO.

As soon as it gets wet it runs off and makes a right mess of your windows and paintwork and lasts about 5 minutes

I just use PBnatural look dressin now.

Ken what you using on the door rubbers to stop then squeeking, creaking and clunking as im sure you could not stand even the slightest squeek.
Mine are driving me nuts.

[mkviken]

Mine is shocking at the minute. I keep meaning to sort it.

Recently since the day has started living outside its getting even worse

Bumping on and off the drive makes the car creek and groan like crazy. It must be a pretty flexible body shell. No other car I've owned has done this


I tend to use the gummi pflege on inside rubber seal and the poor boys on the outside

TBH I can't tell much difference once its applied

[spiderman]

Bumping on and off the drive makes the car creek and groan like crazy. It must be a pretty flexible body shell. No other car I've owned has done this

I'd echo that statement.

This post had got me thinking though so when i cleaned it the other day, i use an ordinary can of spray silicone with a straw and sprayed it into and all around the grooves on the seals, then wiped off any excess making sure the whole seal got coated.

It is way better i've lost about 75% of the noise, there is still some, but i no longer wonder if the car is a Cut and shut

Well worth a Try IMHO and normal silicone just wipes up easy enough although the seal did seem to soak almost all of it up, i may well try it again soon to see if it gets even better (although most of the noise seems to come from the flex in the tops of the back doors, so is it a 5 door thing?)

Sandy

[Snoopy]

I bought a 5 door for the reason all my past VW group  that have been 3 door suffer it far more due to the door been able to move more due to its length. Crap rubber seals at least there nit as noisy as the cv joint plastic boots are when it rains.

I have also wondered if the inside of the O of the seal is creaking.

Thanks everyone for the replies so far.

[Jimble]

The best thing i found to stop it, at least for a while was a good quality hard wax on the door opening where the felt seal meets the body, wax on wax off the same as the rest of the body. The better the wax the longer it lasts. 

[Snoopy]

I did that on sunday as I had read the reply to try that.
 I srp-jetseal109-colinite all the openings and door metalwork.
I also used a rubber care I had on the seals.
 Lasted till tuesday 

[Jimble]

I did that on sunday as I had read the reply to try that.
 I srp-jetseal109-colinite all the openings and door metalwork.
I also used a rubber care I had on the seals.
 Lasted till tuesday 

Yeah, i think it's treating the seals themselves that causes some ome of the problem, like i said earlier i'm almost certain that the gummi pflege made the noise worse on mine so cleaned it off with apc which helped a little.