Hood Seal Installation
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Hood Seal Installation
Not wanting to screw this up, someone please tell me what surface the double-sided tape goes on...the horizontal or vertical edge? No instructions with the seal, and it has two flat surfaces (one with the tape on it). I assume (and you know what happens when you assume!) that the untaped flat surface butts up against the leading vertical edge of the front fascia, with the sticky surface on the bottom...but I only want to do this once. Thanks in advance...
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If you're gonna install it on the horizontal surface, make sure you set it back a few centimeters. If you butt it up all the way to the front, the hood will pinch a little of the seal up when you close it, and you'll see the seal. Just a couple words from experience! 
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Just put mine on... I agree with previous comments, horizontal, clean with alcohal, set back slightly... mine is about 1/8 "...no pinching.
PS: I'm Canadian and I don't even know how big a centimeter is!
I think its 2,5 to the inch?
PS: I'm Canadian and I don't even know how big a centimeter is!
I think its 2,5 to the inch?
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Originally Posted by C5 ChemE
If you're gonna install it on the horizontal surface, make sure you set it back a few centimeters. If you butt it up all the way to the front, the hood will pinch a little of the seal up when you close it, and you'll see the seal. Just a couple words from experience!
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Now I'm no professional but I have installed my hood seal on 3 different times. I have cleaned the old tape on here, cleaned and retaped it and it still comes undone.
If it doesn't work this last time, I'm taking it to a professional.
Mark
V.VET, I've got your dog's twin.... Bondo
If it doesn't work this last time, I'm taking it to a professional.
Mark
V.VET, I've got your dog's twin.... Bondo
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Originally Posted by MyBlueC5
Now I'm no professional but I have installed my hood seal on 3 different times. I have cleaned the old tape on here, cleaned and retaped it and it still comes undone.
If it doesn't work this last time, I'm taking it to a professional.
Mark
V.VET, I've got your dog's twin.... Bondo
If it doesn't work this last time, I'm taking it to a professional.
Mark
V.VET, I've got your dog's twin.... Bondo
Oh no!! Surely Bondo isn't Tobey's twin!!
I thought the mold was broken after this 11 yr. old dog was born. After being nuttered, 3 obedience schools, and several months of Prozac (dog strength), he still chases and bites everything in range, even me sometimes!! 
Hang in there on the seal....you'll get it right!!
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I put one on the horizontal AND the vertical edge. Wonder how? Simple...I'm using the tear drop shaped seal. 1/4 thick Fits perfectly on the horizontal edge (didn't even bother moving it back.) Then I placed the 2nd seal on the vertical edge. Both edges of the seal meet exactly at the crease. (Nothing's getting under my hood).
Bought my seal at Lowes. 72 inch strip for $15.00
Bought my seal at Lowes. 72 inch strip for $15.00
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Originally Posted by v.vet's C5
Mark,
Oh no!! Surely Bondo isn't Tobey's twin!! I thought the mold was broken after this 11 yr. old dog was born. After being nuttered, 3 obedience schools, and several months of Prozac (dog strength), he still chases and bites everything in range, even me sometimes!!
Hang in there on the seal....you'll get it right!!
Randy
Oh no!! Surely Bondo isn't Tobey's twin!!
I thought the mold was broken after this 11 yr. old dog was born. After being nuttered, 3 obedience schools, and several months of Prozac (dog strength), he still chases and bites everything in range, even me sometimes!! Hang in there on the seal....you'll get it right!!
Randy
Well not exactly the same. I had him house trained in the first 3 days. He chewed a telephone cord and a speaker wire on the 4th day and NEVER again.
Best dog I've ever had.... (out of over 20)
BTW, ignore the plastic truck shell, it was funny at the time... the poor dog looks humiliated...lol.
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Originally Posted by MyBlueC5
Randy,
Well not exactly the same. I had him house trained in the first 3 days. He chewed a telephone cord and a speaker wire on the 4th day and NEVER again.
Best dog I've ever had.... (out of over 20)
BTW, ignore the plastic truck shell, it was funny at the time... the poor dog looks humiliated...lol.
Well not exactly the same. I had him house trained in the first 3 days. He chewed a telephone cord and a speaker wire on the 4th day and NEVER again.
Best dog I've ever had.... (out of over 20)
BTW, ignore the plastic truck shell, it was funny at the time... the poor dog looks humiliated...lol.
Poor dog!!Randy
