the doors do not shut with a watertight fit. I have large gaps showing daylight.
Alex in Norfolk.
That's not a gap, it's called "air conditioning"
Being serious, the actual door cards haven't been a serious issue on my car.
When I bought it the previous owner had fitted a screw at the top/rear of the panel, just as others have done which stops the horizontal section from slipping out of the aluminium window frame trim but the rest relied on the normal clips. When I fitted radio speakers in the doors I let the mounting screws bite into the door itself rather than mount the speaker on the trim panel alone and that will secure the front end of the trim panel without looking non-original.
The door seals have been a long term problem, I guess I was just lucky when I replaced mine. Whether the replacements are a slightly larger moulding or stiffer rubber than the originals I don't know, but folks have had trouble in that department going back to the 1980s at least. I've no idea what the solution is but if I had to replace mine I think I'd look around at what alternative mouldings there are these days and try for something with a bit more flexibility - something like ETS60 towards the bottom of this page maybe ?
http://www.sealsdirect.co.uk/shopping.asp?intDepartmentId=71#23I know of people using that pattern on the Elan and IIRC it's similar to the seal used on the later sprints. (not sure on that one)
Brian
