Help replacing the weather stripping around the doors
 

When I got my 1987 928 S4, it was leaking water through the doors. The guys at the Rancho Bernardo Winery meet-up pointed out that the stripping wasn't overhanging the door and appeared to have been cut down. Well, I finally got around to investigating it further, and turns out the weather stripping put in there isn't for the door at all. It is a generic weather strip, not a loop. It has an adhesive back to it, but the previous owner didn't even bother removing the plastic backing to expose the adhesive... leaking quandry solved.

The good news is that 36 seconds of work will remove the old strips and leave me with a clean door. The bad news is I don't know how to get the correct strips around the door. Do I have to remove the hinges to loop them around? Can I just remove the interior struts that appear in the way? How would I go about doing that? Any advice? Thank you.

fit the new rubber to the door.
I believe its good to use the 3M yellow trim adhesive, at some point along the bottom of the door make one cut in the rubber so it can go around the door wire harness, then you can super glue the ends back together then finish with 3M adhesive ( of course you could make the cut anywhere but the lower the better)

If you are talking about the main door seal, I replaced my damaged left one with a used one by cutting through the bottom section and glueing it back together in situ. A 5-minute job and it's still good 2 years on.

Colin. 89GT.

Ok then. I was afraid to cut it, but if that's the standard advice, it sounds easy enough. Thank you.