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Replacing Weatherstrip

Weatherstrip is an essential component in cars and trucks to ensure a weather-tight passenger compartment also free of engine fumes. It also prevents water intrusion in car trunks that typically leads to rusted-out ›oors. It does wear and degrade with time, losing its effectiveness. Weatherstrip is always replaced in a complete restoration and in most instances, it can be easily replaced as a repair without doing any other work. Like most tasks, there are a series of steps that, if followed, will lead to the best result. Following are those steps that I and others have

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