Door plastic weather shield adhesive

This weekend I replaced the weather-shield vinyl sheeting in both doors on
my '91 Integra.

In the process, I discovered that the correct adhesive is "butyl tape",
sold by any auto glass place. $10 buys you a 15ft roll, which it appears
would do all four doors of a 4-door car. This stuff is sticky and gummy,
and remains that way practically forever.

Despite its name, "butyl tape" is actually round in cross-section. The
stuff I found was 3/8" in diameter. I stretched it to about 3/16-1/4" while
installing.

I used an old credit card to scrape off the old adhesive, some of which was
quite hard after 15 years, and used Sure-Solv auto body cleaning solvent to
remove the excess that could not be scraped off.

Once you get it all off, you discover that there is a purpose-made channel
pressed into the door frame that serves as a receiving location for the
bead of butyl.

The vinyl itself I replaced with polyethylene vapor barrier normally used
for houses. I temporarily taped an oversized piece over top of the existing
vinyl, then sketched the pattern on the poly with a marker, attempting to
compensate for the shrinkage the vinyl had undergone over the years. A
utility knife was then used to cut out the sketched pattern.

The above info posted in case anyone Googles for it at some point in the
future.

An aside: Also noticed that two of the door-glass anti-rattle clips had
fallen off the top of the doors. Both had fallen off previously, been put
back, but had fallen off again. I just left them off for good. Replacing
them means removing the door glass, which I did not feel like doing.

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TeGGeR® wrote:
> This weekend I replaced the weather-shield vinyl sheeting in both doors on
> my '91 Integra.
>
> In the process, I discovered that the correct adhesive is "butyl tape",
> sold by any auto glass place. $10 buys you a 15ft roll, which it appears
> would do all four doors of a 4-door car. This stuff is sticky and gummy,
> and remains that way practically forever.

great info!

>
> Despite its name, "butyl tape" is actually round in cross-section. The
> stuff I found was 3/8" in diameter. I stretched it to about 3/16-1/4" while
> installing.
>
> I used an old credit card to scrape off the old adhesive, some of which was
> quite hard after 15 years, and used Sure-Solv auto body cleaning solvent to
> remove the excess that could not be scraped off.
>
> Once you get it all off, you discover that there is a purpose-made channel
> pressed into the door frame that serves as a receiving location for the
> bead of butyl.
>
> The vinyl itself I replaced with polyethylene vapor barrier normally used
> for houses. I temporarily taped an oversized piece over top of the existing
> vinyl, then sketched the pattern on the poly with a marker, attempting to
> compensate for the shrinkage the vinyl had undergone over the years. A
> utility knife was then used to cut out the sketched pattern.
>
> The above info posted in case anyone Googles for it at some point in the
> future.
>
> An aside: Also noticed that two of the door-glass anti-rattle clips had
> fallen off the top of the doors. Both had fallen off previously, been put
> back, but had fallen off again. I just left them off for good. Replacing
> them means removing the door glass, which I did not feel like doing.
>

"TeGGeR®" wrote:
>
> This weekend I replaced the weather-shield vinyl sheeting in both doors on
> my '91 Integra.
>
> In the process, I discovered that the correct adhesive is "butyl tape",
> sold by any auto glass place. $10 buys you a 15ft roll, which it appears
> would do all four doors of a 4-door car. This stuff is sticky and gummy,
> and remains that way practically forever.
>
> Despite its name, "butyl tape" is actually round in cross-section. The
> stuff I found was 3/8" in diameter. I stretched it to about 3/16-1/4" while
> installing.
>
> I used an old credit card to scrape off the old adhesive, some of which was
> quite hard after 15 years, and used Sure-Solv auto body cleaning solvent to
> remove the excess that could not be scraped off.
>
> Once you get it all off, you discover that there is a purpose-made channel
> pressed into the door frame that serves as a receiving location for the
> bead of butyl.
>
> The vinyl itself I replaced with polyethylene vapor barrier normally used
> for houses. I temporarily taped an oversized piece over top of the existing
> vinyl, then sketched the pattern on the poly with a marker, attempting to
> compensate for the shrinkage the vinyl had undergone over the years. A
> utility knife was then used to cut out the sketched pattern.
>
> The above info posted in case anyone Googles for it at some point in the
> future.
>
> An aside: Also noticed that two of the door-glass anti-rattle clips had
> fallen off the top of the doors. Both had fallen off previously, been put
> back, but had fallen off again. I just left them off for good. Replacing
> them means removing the door glass, which I did not feel like doing.
>
> --
> TeGGeR®
>
> The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ
> www.tegger.com/hondafaq/
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I was thinking of posting a question about that topic . . The
windshield version is BLACK, right? The vapor barrier isn't nearly as
thick as the original , nor as rubbery, is it ??

'Curly'

"'Curly Q. Links'" <motsco__@interbaun.com> wrote in
news:4349FAB1.E810804E@interbaun.com:


>
> I was thinking of posting a question about that topic . . The
> windshield version is BLACK, right?



Yes, so it's not entirely correct for that reason. However, since all the
butyl tape I found was for auto glass application, it was all black. The
original white stuff was nowhere to be found.



> The vapor barrier isn't nearly as
> thick as the original , nor as rubbery, is it ??



The original was vinyl. It was identical to the material used to make blow-
up swimming pools. When new, the vinyl was probably less prone to making
noise on account of its softness, but vinyl shrinks as it gets old, it
pulls away from the butyl and breaks the seal.

Vapor barrier plastic is at least as thick as the original vinyl. I don't
think I'll have any problems with holes or cracks.



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