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I've spent a couple more sessions on the passenger side door, sidescreen and hood gaps. I have used nearly 3 metres of neoprene 1/2" 'D' profile seal, from woollies. Hope what follows makes sense / might be of use to someone.

On mine, investigation suggested there were three main areas for attention:
- Vertical rear edge of the door and sidescreen. I had to run the new seal from top to bottom (in two halves, to allow sidescreen removal). I still had a slight draft until I added an extra run of seal on the door. This has nearly completely stopped the draft.
- Front half of the top of sidescreen to hood join: There is already a factory seal on the hood frame, split into two lengths, to allow the frame to hinge when being collapsed. This seals adequately against the sidescreen, but I still had a gap between the hood and the frame. I ran a length of seal above the front half of the factory seal. This needed Evostick contact adhesive, to make firm. When the hood's up, this now touches the hood and closes the gap. It doesn't interfere with collapsing the hood.
- Where the sidescreen and door meet at the front edge and also seal against the bulkhead beneath the bottom of the windscreen. There was a significant draft from this area, blowing into the cabin around the left end edge of the dashboard roll-top. This took the longest to fix, but I've managed it with a couple of parallel strips of seal along the bulkhead, in line with the top of the door and a single seal on the fabric section of the sidescreen, front edge to the chrome sidescreen attachment bracket. That's pretty much fixed it. I'm not sure how well the seal's pre-applied 3M adhesive will work on the sidescreen material. I may need some evostick here, time will tell.

None of the seals added are visible with the door closed, nor with the sidescreen off. They aren't noticeable with the door open, unless you know what you're looking for. Even then, the D seal looks reasonably like it was built that way. The result is much less draft, a significant improvement, not totally eradicated, but now perfectly acceptable. I also think the wind noise is reduced. This improvement is noticeable, but not significant. 👍

Do you have a link to the Woolies neoprene 1/2” D-profile seal? It’s not obvious from my searching which one to go for. Ta!

Sounds like very substantial progress Martin - a really useful report.

Did you run any additional seal around the inner face of the bottom of the doors ? (where they seal against the car body below the door aperture). In addition to the other areas you have noted, on mine, there are gaps along this section and these seem a possible cause of some water ingress onto the stainless steel scuff plate that runs around the door aperture when it rains or I use the screenwash (another possibility is that water is getting driven in past the hinges at the door front edges - again by the slipstream). I'm having the draughts / leaks and possible misalignment of the door (hinging angles) with respect to the car body - both sides - looked at under warranty in March.

It would be helpful if you could post some pictures.

I bought two types and mainly used this one: https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/p-2072-self-adhesive-bead

This was the other: https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/p-1538-self-adhesive-d-sponge

They say 'sponge, but they look and feel like rubber. The first one has better adhesion.