Cleaning rear window seals

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Sizzler-b
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Hi All

I have a 2012 and the rear electric windows seem terribly slow to close. It’s better when it’s wet and so I thought it might be just dirt. I took a cloth and cleaned as best I could the seal and it seems to have made one better ( there was lot of black muck) but I don’t think I can get it properly clean. I wondered if anyone could tell me how to remove the seals for cleaning without damaging all the plastic. I can’t see how or where they are attached and am frightened to go prising away and hear a big SNAP!
Any help or diagrams would be brilliant!
Thanks

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Before you remove the seals, if it is practicable try lubeing up the seals with silicone grease and operating them a few times.
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I did try with some silicone furniture spray and it did help a bit but not too well I’m afraid!
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Brush?
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I'm thinking furniture polish is not quite what I was thinking. You need the stuff that looks like grease, it is white. Some of it will get absorbed by the rubber & should soften it some.
Sizzler-b wrote: Fri May 11, 2018 7:03 pm I did try with some silicone furniture spray and it did help a bit but not too well I’m afraid!
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I’m not sure that’s a goer as it will make the windows white and the rubber is still pliable and soft so I think that might just attract the dirt and stick more of it on! Has anyone got any idea how to take them off?
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I did try a brush but the best solution so far was a micro fibre cloth wrapped around a blunt kitchen knife. Lots of muck came out but still sticky!
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i wonder if the sticky stuff is sap that falls from trees rather than old grease?

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Thanks GVM Daddy. I’ll give it a try.... nothing ventured .....!
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