Darn, I was hoping the official ones would be worse as I wanted to get a better seal about my front doors with some ‘usually better’ aftermarket stuff. This has been helpful, thanks!

So much fun watching you take joy in your experiments! Not many men can say they enjoy their work the way you do.

"It's not like having sex with a seal ....cluck, cluck cluck". Never in the history of the English language has that sentence ever been said before.

Got so excited over the pen of truth

I look forward to a test fit on the driver's door and see if it helps the gap at the top.

best unboxing EVER.

Wheeyyyy! Love it!! Hahahaha

The only way to get Britpart seals to fit is if you put a slit along the "O" section.

I know they are expensive but it's the only way you will get the doors to shut correctly.
Worth every penny 😁

The pen of truth never lies!

pen science at it's best :-) Mike you get the Oscar!  Love that combination of fun, realx and getting things further... Cheers Axel

I had the Britpart seals on my 2013 Defender. After two years took them off to do some paint work repair. I had to scrape them of as the partly had melted against the frame. Replaced them with genuine ones. Oh and one other tip. Replace your strikers if the plastic is worn. Don't have to slam the door anymore, gust a gentle push will close the door nicely. Could not believe how much difference that striker replacement made.

Fantastic great vid grate humour 😂😂😂that had more hilarity than your Jaffa cake vid and that was hilarious 😂😂😂

That was so bloody funny I laughed my socks off, if you pack up the tools maybe you should do stand up comedy. Lol 🤣

Told you to get genuine mike!!!

So funny Mike...your easily pleased ! just on about things that dont fit right, just took delivery of an under bonnet soundproof pad from Bearmach, the guy said it fits all defenders including my Td5....bollocks it does!,  for €120 delivered i could have stuck my own stuff on with a better outcome. its the right shape of the bonnet, thats about where it ends though, i have had to hack bits off it to make the bonnet close, but am going to have to do more to it yet as its still tight againts something.

Cheers Mike, would be good to see it fitted and the door closing nicely. this problem has dogged me for years. i wonder if there are any generic seal materials that have a similar compression to the oem?

How do you decide when a seal needs to be replaced? Amount of wind feeding into the cabine? Wonder why they never combined a doorframe seal with an added seal on the door itself.

Easily your best video yet, I was hoping this would be the outcome. As you know Mike i’m Back on genuine parts, I fear Britpart, Bearmach and others are all made in the same factory to piss poor spec. I’m happy to pay more if it will last because aftermarket is turning into a dirty word. My concern is with poor economic performance Jaguar Land Rover will stop making defender parts then what for us? Thank you again.

Mike try bearmach own brand seals, there as soft and reinforced as per genuine seals. Did my own pen on truth test and found them equal.