I'll start off with a brief introduction of me since this is my first post. If you want to go onto my little question/problem just read below the wavy line. Also, all pictures, click to make bigger, which isn't too big, 800x600, around there.
Well, I recently got a Volkswagen Corrado, it's a 1993 SLC model with only a very small 38,070 original miles. It is my first car and VW, also my dream car. Bought it in Colorado, drove it to Flagstaff, AZ and then put it on a flat bed and drove it back home to Riverside, CA.
Really nice car, I really do love owning the car as it's rare and just performs so nice. Was a car ahead of it's time as it does outperform many cars today, almost 15 years later. Even has more luxuries than my mother's Cadillac haha.
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Anywho... Onto the question. When we bought the car it had a few imperfections, nothing really big. However, this one imperfection has to do with the inner window seal. It's got like a "dusty" and faded or oxidized look to it. It really bugs me a lot when you stare into it's mint leather interior shown below and then you see a white border of this.... stuff. It just distracts the focus of attention.
So, I was wondering... Is there anything I can do other than replace the seals that are literally and virtually non-existent in today's market for my car. I've been told a few things to tryout, most that don't sound right or don't seem to be for the right application as mine.
I was told to use rubbing alcohol, which sounds like it would crack and dry up the soft fuzzy material laid onto the rubber seal. I was also told to use Bondo Black or something which I'm not too sure about as that sounds just like the other blackening products out there such as: Mother's Back to Black which doesn't sound like it would work as it's made for plastic and the liquid is white to begin with; followed by Einszett Gummi Pflege which too is made for rubber; lastly, I thought of at one point and was also told to try using a cloth dye which wouldn't work since that has to be treated in boiling hot water, which would crack it, and I don't want to remove it. There was one instance I thought of Kiwi shoe dye, but that's for leather... But not sure of the outcome and too scared to face the outcome.
Here are pics of the seals, it has done it on both sides and I would like to fix it... It just annoys me enough to make me go crazy. Any ideas?
Well, I recently got a Volkswagen Corrado, it's a 1993 SLC model with only a very small 38,070 original miles. It is my first car and VW, also my dream car. Bought it in Colorado, drove it to Flagstaff, AZ and then put it on a flat bed and drove it back home to Riverside, CA.
Really nice car, I really do love owning the car as it's rare and just performs so nice. Was a car ahead of it's time as it does outperform many cars today, almost 15 years later. Even has more luxuries than my mother's Cadillac haha.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Anywho... Onto the question. When we bought the car it had a few imperfections, nothing really big. However, this one imperfection has to do with the inner window seal. It's got like a "dusty" and faded or oxidized look to it. It really bugs me a lot when you stare into it's mint leather interior shown below and then you see a white border of this.... stuff. It just distracts the focus of attention.
So, I was wondering... Is there anything I can do other than replace the seals that are literally and virtually non-existent in today's market for my car. I've been told a few things to tryout, most that don't sound right or don't seem to be for the right application as mine.
I was told to use rubbing alcohol, which sounds like it would crack and dry up the soft fuzzy material laid onto the rubber seal. I was also told to use Bondo Black or something which I'm not too sure about as that sounds just like the other blackening products out there such as: Mother's Back to Black which doesn't sound like it would work as it's made for plastic and the liquid is white to begin with; followed by Einszett Gummi Pflege which too is made for rubber; lastly, I thought of at one point and was also told to try using a cloth dye which wouldn't work since that has to be treated in boiling hot water, which would crack it, and I don't want to remove it. There was one instance I thought of Kiwi shoe dye, but that's for leather... But not sure of the outcome and too scared to face the outcome.
Here are pics of the seals, it has done it on both sides and I would like to fix it... It just annoys me enough to make me go crazy. Any ideas?
