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My Polo is coming up to three years old, it has been cleaned religiously and I have the same problem. I'm still undecided whether I'm going to ask my local dealer to replace the seals under the manufacturers warranty or not as I don't think they should be going mouldy after three years. I would normally just ask for them replacing but once you start messing around with seals you are opening up a world of pain with future wind noise etc...
ben4012 wrote:This is not a warranty issue. Just clean it off.
Clean it off with what? I've pressure washed it off a few times, the more you clean it the worse it gets. It is mould after all which grows in areas of consistent damp so cleaning it off is not a solution.
It is the price you pay for living in a country with lots of wet weather and maybe clean air! Unless VAG impregnated all external "rubber" seals with something nasty, this will always happen to cars left outside - I tend to garage my cars so get none of that at all.
Wilxay wrote:This isn't forming on rubber it's forming on felt. And I've only noticed it forming since this time last week when I give it a deep clean.
Yes, but that "felt" is really plastic/rubber with a bit of added "feltish" synthetic material on/in it.