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Old 12-05-2007, 10:03 PM   #1
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Upper Door Zipper

how do i fix my upper door zippers they wont zip it leaves little holes and now the driver said wont shut.and with more snow comin im screwed

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Old 12-05-2007, 10:05 PM   #2
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Are you saying the zipper is stuck or are you saying its separating from the door on the seam?
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Old 12-05-2007, 10:08 PM   #3
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its kinda stuck it moves but it doesnt zip and when it does zip its not even like the teeth arent meshing which leaves little holes
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Old 12-06-2007, 04:05 PM   #4
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Old 12-06-2007, 05:36 PM   #5
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yeah i ahve teh same problem
i put soap all over it and then pounded the zipper back and forth and after like 15 tries it made the holes only like one inch instead of like 6
then i duct taped it from the outside
im hoping i get sliders for hannukah but i REEEALLLYY doubt it
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Old 12-06-2007, 07:00 PM   #6
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Take the whole thing inside where it's warm and lube it up with a bar of soap. I have to do this about about every four or five times I take out my back window because it does the same thing. The teeth are slowly getting back to not missing.
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I tried to respond to this yesterday, but couldn't get logged in (everything worked up to the redirecting, and then the page where it says to log in popped up. Weird.). Anyway to the question, I don't know how old your zippers are or what condition they're in, but I had a similar situation and I was able to make my uppers last a little longer by rubbing wax into the zipper. The wax I used was cutting wax for a band saw. I'm sure canning (?) wax would work as well. As mentioned above, if you can, do it inside a warm environment. Good luck.
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Old 12-07-2007, 11:05 AM   #8
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X5 on the cleaning and lubing.
Take the stuff inside and CLEAN IT, soap and water with a brush, clean those teeth out. Jeep/Mopar has a small bottle of zipper lube that is pretty good, it has an applicator brush, just squeeze the bottle and brush it on, then work the zippers inside where it's warm then with the zippers all nice and sealed apply some more of that zipper lube. Should be good for the winter after that.
And don't use paper towels on the plastic windows either, it scratches, paper=wood fibers.
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Old 12-07-2007, 12:43 PM   #9
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thanks guys for all your hekp im gonna try this tonight if it isnt snowin
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Old 12-07-2007, 01:29 PM   #10
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thanks guys for all your hekp im gonna try this tonight if it isnt snowin
Whats snow got to do it it, take the whole top in, so what if you have to suffer with wet ass for a couple of days...wuss
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