These door w-strips are GARBAGE!!!!!!

I tried the POS repop door jam weather stripping and it sucked. The windshield and trunk repop sare fine. I ended up trashing it and using my 40 year old OEM weatherstripping that was nice than the new stuff.

 

I know now from the thread when I do get around to replacing wxstrip >>
It Ain't Goin To Be A Piece of Cake Deal no matter who I get it from.

 

Yep, I am planning a trip to the yard saturday and see if I can find something of use.

 

Instead of just bitching, I've emailed Carpenter. I stay at the same hotel as they do, for the spring and fall Columbus swap meet. A few times ago, one of the guys gave me his contact info, so we'll see what he says.

 

That sounds smart, any of you guys save the receipt?

 

Good luck with that

 

Thanks, I had a set of these in the budget for next spring. I really don't want to spend that kind of money for stuff that doesn't fit well.

 

Here we go AGAIN. This issue comes up yearly.. and my 2 year old kit is STILL in the un-opened boxes.. :16suspect

 

the door weatherstripping i bought from AK were crap as well. Both of them were to short and ended up tearing because they were stretched out to far. but i have to keep them on because if i dont i would have a wet maverick on the inside...

 

My AK door weatherstrips went on OK. No way they were short. A little long if anything. I put the pins in each end and then applied the glue being careful not to stretch them. If I had started at one end and pulled them snug there would have been extra on the other end for sure.

 

What about the big bulbous ends? Did they not interfere with the body side w-strips? That is what I am upset about....the ends dont resemble the factory ends at all. They are so fat, that I think they will make the door extremely hard to shut.

Anyone with pics of theirs installed???????

 

I got all my weather strips from AK. Never had a problem. That was 5 years ago...

 

Too funny Gene. I remember you posting on my AK thread way back when you got them. And yes it does seem to come up every year or so dont it.

 

It seems weird that the comments posted are so far apart from one another. Either really good or really bad. Could these parts have that much of a quality control problem?

Sounds like were talking about 2 completely different products

 

Well,
I got an Email from Dennis Carpenter,. they do not produce the parts in question, or any Maverick weatherstrips.