Lubricate your weather strippping

[plymouthcolt]

My highschool autoboby teacher, Mr. Aldus, taught us to always lube our weather stripping once a year with silicon grease. The silicon would help preserve the rubber.

Does anyone else here subsribe to this notion?

[Paulporsche]

When my car was new, Porsche recommended glycerine for this, in the owner's manual, although perhaps the other previous two products mentioned were not around then.

[Zeke]

Originally posted by Paulporsche
When my car was new, Porsche recommended glycerine for this, in the owner's manual, although perhaps the other previous two products mentioned were not around then.

Glycerine rocks. Buy it at the drug store.

[midlife]

KY Jelly?

[Richard C2S]

Paul

I started using glycerine on my 356 thirty years ago and it worked great. But, it works on natural rubber, not synthetics. I don't know what the rubber is on the "newer" cars.

[midlife]

I suspect that the seals would be either Neoprene or EPDM (Ethylene Propylene).

[Randy Webb]

THe Wurth (which I just used today) seems more like a cleaner to me.

Meguairs is what I usually use - it has a UV filter in it (tho I don't think its approved as a sunscreen...). It's nice and keeps the white wax deposits off.

Glycerin is a great low-cost solution also.