How to Install the Rear Door Seal on a 2003 Envoy

In the 1998 model year, GMC released a new SUV to complement -- and eventually replace -- the GMC Jimmy: the Envoy. Oddly enough, the original Envoy looked identical to the Jimmy, sans the added optional equipment. In 2001, GMC dropped the Envoy, only to bring a significantly redesigned version of it back the following year and remove the Jimmy from its lineup. The 2003 Envoy comes only in a four-door model, and each of the four doors has a series of seals keeping wind noise to a minimum and moisture out of the interior. Replacing the two seals on the rear door is a fairly simple task, but you must align the new seals correctly.

Instructions

Weather Strip Removal

1

Open the rear door. Pry upward on the rear doors scuff plate the plastic panel at the base of the door opening with a flat-head screwdriver to disengage its three retaining tabs. Remove the scuff panel.

2

Pull the entire weather strip from the pinch-weld around the door opening.

3

Remove the weather strip from the vehicle.

Weather Strip Installation

4

Position the new weather strip so each of the two small dots on it are in the two upper corners of the door opening, and the joint where the manufacturer boded the two ends of the weather strip together is on the bottom, center of the opening.

5

Press the weather strip onto the pinch-weld all the way around the inside of the door opening using your hands. Once the weather strip is connected to the entire pinch-weld, go around the weather strip one more time, pressing it toward the pinch-weld to assure it is locked in place.

6

Line up the retaining clips on the underside of the door scuff plate with the slots on the floorboards. Press the scuff plate downward to lock it into place.

Upper Sealing Strip Removal

7

Open the rear door and find the upper sealing strip -- the hard rubber strip on the rear of the door -- on the doors vertical pillar.

8

Grab the bottom of the upper sealing strip and pull it outward to remove the lower part of the seal from the doors pinch-weld.

9

Lift upward on the sealer strip to pull the upper tab from its slot in the pinch-weld in the door.

10

Remove the upper sealing strip.

Upper Sealing Strip Installation

11

Line up the tab on the top of the new sealing strip with its slot in the top of the pinch-weld.

12

Slide the upper sealing strip downward to slide the strips tab into the slot, securing the upper part of the sealing strip.

13

Press the lower part of the upper sealing strip onto the pinch-weld.

14

Close the door.