dowtchaboy
Free Member
My campervan is 1994 so some of it is getting a trifle jaded. One annoyance is that many of the plastic "trim strips" are coming loose. Am not sure if that's the correct term for the plastic stuff that clips into the aluminium track surrounding doors and so on - covers the screws.
Mine are all a bit grey and have gone hard-ish in the sun and ease out especially at corners. Now every journey I keep listening for that little buzz that will turn into a flap....looking in the mirror to see if I am whipping a cyclist....
1 - is there a nifty trick for pushing them back into the channel? I use fingernails, edge of keys, breadknife...... I suspect there is a neat tool that would push it all back in a jiffy.
2 - is there a way to put some flexibility back into the strip and have it stay put? Olive oil? WD40? something (as ever) from LIDL.......?
I know ya'all have long since moved up to monocoque and so on - but there are one or two of us poor folks with old vans!
(P@ - HEHN 1994)
Mine are all a bit grey and have gone hard-ish in the sun and ease out especially at corners. Now every journey I keep listening for that little buzz that will turn into a flap....looking in the mirror to see if I am whipping a cyclist....
1 - is there a nifty trick for pushing them back into the channel? I use fingernails, edge of keys, breadknife...... I suspect there is a neat tool that would push it all back in a jiffy.
2 - is there a way to put some flexibility back into the strip and have it stay put? Olive oil? WD40? something (as ever) from LIDL.......?
I know ya'all have long since moved up to monocoque and so on - but there are one or two of us poor folks with old vans!
(P@ - HEHN 1994)