My 1986 Pontiac Parisenne wagon is my daily driver and one of the cars I wanted so bad because my dad gave me one as my first car, well because of it's age the door seals are really going in it and I cannot seem to find any door seals for it. now I live is Surrey BC Canada and I have checked at places like Year One and even Ebay, which Ebay says 1987 door seals WON'T fit mine and I don't know why. My questions are: Are the door seals cross compatible with 87 to 86? Are the seals Glued into the doors? Where could someone purchase seals either locally where I am or online? also...why can't you get a 4 door set? why just the two fronts? yes I know they are used more frequently, but you'd think with a family car they'd think to add the other two.
Steele Rubber products has them. Steele is one of the best companies out there for this sort of thing. http://www.steelerubber.com/search?year=1986&make=pontiac&model=parisienne&style=4-door-wagon-2-seat
I will keep that in mind, just have to find out how much it is in canadian (thank you dropping dollar) and if there is shipping costs within the US as I have a mailbox just across the border.
The door seals for these cars likely didn't change much at all from 1977 to 1990 with the last Olds Custom Cruiser. Steele Rubber lists the interchange for them for all years, but not all models of Parisienne or Buick Estate wagon are listed. That may just be a limitation of how accurate their catalog is for every single model ever made. Weatherstripping is held on by plastic tabs that are molded into the rubber that slide in to holds in the doors. They do use adhesive to hold it in place, but how much and where it was used varied based on body line, plant, and the general laziness of the worker on the line the day it was made.
for the most part it seems to have glue in the top portion around the window, and I don't mean around the glass itself but around the frame of the window on the outer door shell.I checked at a wrecker on an 84 caprice with shot seals and it was fully glued from front to back. is that going to cause any problems with re attaching the seals?
I'm doing that now, but my doors are off the car. You will have to use needle nose pliers to get behind the push pins and pop them out. Then start to pull the weatherstrip off. It was spot glued at critical points on the bottom and sides up to the window frame. In the frame itself, a thin bead of adhesive ran all the way around the frame in the bottom of the channel. Upon peeling it back, I found fairly heavy rusting underneath at the top and sloping side of the frame. A few of the pits went all the way thru. This whole operation required judicious scraping to remove the old rubber and adhesive. Then I had to use a variety of means to remove the rust. Once that was done, I used a conversion coating to convert the rust to phosphate, followed by a heavy filling sanding sealer. This followed by body filler to fill the pits and smooth things out. Then prime and repaint. Like all of these projects, they turn out to be more work than first anticipated. Just take that into consideration before you start.
The body sheet metal on all the 1980-1990 B-body wagons is identical from the firewall back. Any seals that fit a Chevy wagon fit the same year Pontiac/Olds/Buick.
