Cleaning the boot seal is not hard at all.

Simply open your boot and lift the rubber boot seal off. Its that simple. Don’t bother removing it totally from the car, you can easily work around it.

Grab a rag and clean the groove in the boot seal. Seal – done.

Now, take that same rag and clean all around where the boot seal sits. Use either a dry rag or chamois to dry the metal surface. I like to polish the boot before I put the seal back on – Why? Because it makes future cleaning easier!

All up, this D.I.Y should only take you about an hour - at most. You’d probably only need to do it once a year as well. Only one hour per year to do a job that could possibly save you from a costly rust problem.

The photo’s below are self explanatory. Remember though, chamois that boot when you wash the car!

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