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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 02:40 PM
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Check the bottom of your doors!!

I was cleaning my car the other day and i seen that on the bottom of the door where the weather strip meets the door is rubbing the paint of to bare metal.I'm a painter at a body shop so i fixed it myself but thats the first place you will get rust.
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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 08:26 PM
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mine's doing the same thing... GM told me its because I have aftermarket wheels and 1 size bigger tires. Same thing for the paint coming off the rockers, both bumpers and the quarter panel.

Those are some tires, no?

Scott
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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Adirondack_Cobalt
mine's doing the same thing... GM told me its because I have aftermarket wheels and 1 size bigger tires. Same thing for the paint coming off the rockers, both bumpers and the quarter panel.

Those are some tires, no?

Scott
That is pretty bad if you ask me i hope that you are fighting witht them to get that fixed
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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Adirondack_Cobalt
mine's doing the same thing... GM told me its because I have aftermarket wheels and 1 size bigger tires. Same thing for the paint coming off the rockers, both bumpers and the quarter panel.

Those are some tires, no?

Scott


Thanks for the warning boostedss26.
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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 08:32 PM
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My paint is rubbing off the doors onto the weather stripping.
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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 09:04 PM
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^^^ Yeah mines doing that too. The weatherstrips around my door are blue
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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by jtohio4002
That is pretty bad if you ask me i hope that you are fighting witht them to get that fixed
I may as well **** on an electric fence for all its doing. The dealership told them that I have aftermarket wheels and tires (the tires are a 215-60-15... stock I think was 195? 205? 60-15) and the wheels are the same offset (?) as factory... I am getting the weenie.

They insist that those BF Goodrich tires are responsible... Maybe its just their paint is cheap, thin and falling off the car? Oh no, that can't be happening...

Scott
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Old May 1, 2006 | 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by bluecobaltss06
^^^ Yeah mines doing that too. The weatherstrips around my door are blue
My weatherstipping's turning yellow too. I'm going to go to Autozone and get some weatherstripping lubricant, hopefully that should help
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Old May 1, 2006 | 01:02 PM
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My weatherstipping's turning yellow too. I'm going to go to Autozone and get some weatherstripping lubricant, hopefully that should help
oh be careful... if its not from GM, it'll void your warranty...

Scott
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 03:21 AM
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I went to autozone to get weather stripping lubricant and they didn't know what i was talking about. Should i be looking for something else?
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 04:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Adirondack_Cobalt
oh be careful... if its not from GM, it'll void your warranty...

Scott
You should be taking it to the next level, get GM customer service in on it. You will be amazed what a dealer will do for you once they get a phone call. Rim ad tires voiding warrenty, common your getting the shaft.
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 12:16 PM
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I keep the painted parts of the insides of my doors waxed fairly regularly... maybe every other time I wax the exterior... haven't seen evidence of any problems yet... but I'll have to check.
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 12:27 PM
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can u put any pics of it? b/c i have the front of my passanger, bottom corner door rubbin on the metal but only when its really cold and wana see if it's that what your talking about.
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Old Jan 12, 2008 | 06:43 PM
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A good way to keep it from rubbin off is 3m makes a clear stone chip tape you can cut a piece as long as the door and put it on. I also did that when i repainted my bottoms
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Old Jan 12, 2008 | 09:34 PM
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Use silicon grease (I think they call it dielectric grease)

Silicon grease lightly applied on the weather strip will also keep your doors from freezing shut when you
wash it in the winter.
Do not use any type of petroleum product for this ,because it will swell and degrade your weather strpping.
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Old Jan 12, 2008 | 09:36 PM
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that sucks
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Old Jan 12, 2008 | 09:45 PM
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yep, mie does it
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Old Jan 16, 2008 | 11:01 PM
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Mine is going to the body shop under warranty sometime next week. The left front door is chipping away on the upper and lower door edge.
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by JMAc88
You should be taking it to the next level, get GM customer service in on it. You will be amazed what a dealer will do for you once they get a phone call. Rim ad tires voiding warrenty, common your getting the shaft.
Unfortunately, the car is gone. I traded it in shortly after I made the post for a 2007 SS/SC.
from my understanding, the people that purchased my car from the dealer had to have parts of the car repainted due to the problem. To their credit, they were smart enough to put the stock rims back on the car...
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 12:22 AM
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my car whines,and makes weird noise's when i floor it
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 12:38 AM
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cant you use vasaline as a lube? i think my buddy had some of that all over his car once...
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 12:44 AM
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my car whines,and makes weird noise's when i floor it
i have the same damn problem
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Old Feb 22, 2008 | 01:29 AM
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2 years now and no problems, I always clean the doors with Windex and also the weather stripping I apply some ArmourAll so it won't stick.
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Old Feb 23, 2008 | 10:58 PM
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That sucks that you use armour all
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Old Mar 25, 2008 | 11:31 AM
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mine does it now did you guys end up having the dealer repaint the chipped area too or they only readjusted the door?
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