Nobody on this yet? C'mon guys, help me out here!
Sorry about the delay, been swamped here, got your seals all boxed up and on their way.
Anyway, the install on these can range from a drop in, to hours of headache, especially with the rear hatch.
If all your latches and catches are free and adjustable (as in not rusted to oblivion) you will be able to get everything to work without too much trouble though.
For the doors, they tend to be pretty easy, you pull the edge trim off the door opening, remove the plastic sill plate, put the new stuff in place and re-install the sills.
When you install the new seals, try not to hammer them into place.
You don't need any adhesives or glue, the seals have little metal "U's" in them that grip the edge, if you hammer them in the "U" gets bent and does not grip the edge as tight.
Then once they are installed, keep in mind is that everything will be too tight at first.
The seals will seat in and take shape, so at first they will seem too tight, like you have to slam the doors, but that will loosen up shortly.
The hatch can be more complicated since there are two doors that have to mesh with each other.
The seals being too tight can have a big effect here, one thing to consider is installing the outer seal, letting that seat in for a week, and then come back and install the tailgate lip seal so you are not trying to adjust for everything all at once.
The tailgate lip is putting a seal where there never was one, so you can't trust the factory adjustments.
You can't trust the factory adjustments in general though since you don't know what has been done to them since they left the factory.
This makes the whole install a bit more of an art than a science. Just go slow and look carefully, basically everything that has a bolt on it is an adjustment, you will find that all the holes are slotted or oversized to allow for adjustment, the trick is to find what, if anything, needs the adjustment.
I suppose the last note on the hatch would be that the lift gate latch engages in two stages, there is a first catch that will hold the door in place, and then there is a second catch that compresses the gate in, before installing the new seals, familiarize yourself with the function, open the hatch and close it slowly to feel each of the engage points and then make sure you have them both after install as well.
Let me know if you have any other questions, and as always, if you run into any problems.
KR
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