Lubing the weatherstripping is necessary for the colder climates where we get freezing rains. It's also harder on batteries. I loved the weather last time I was down in Missouri and that was during the peak of the Summer.
^^^THIS!
We keep getting these soaking wet deluge warm spell fronts from the south/southwest, then we get the high pressure COLD fronts following so closely that the rain does not dry off of the car/door openings before it FREEZES solid in the 15*F ambients.
That's when you hear that frightening stick/rip of the weatherstrips pulling away from the doors on opening (IF they are not frozen solid shut!).
This stuff;
https://www.amazon.com/nextzett-91480615-Gummi-Pflege-Rubber/dp/B004B8GTQG
helps prevent that expensive damage.
I actually got the idea to check the factory battery electrolyte level from koozy on here, who found his battery's levels were WAY DOWN, albeit he lives in a hot, (mostly) dry climate.
After a year and a half of ownership, and never having opened the caps since then (was too used to/spoiled by the mostly maintenance free Die Hard/Odyssey AGM I had in my Z28 LOL), mine were down a little, so I topped them up with distilled water, and threw a quick charge on it since I sometimes sit in the car with the engine off and listen until the end of a fave song playing.
Once EnerSys/Odyssey releases the threaded SAE posts for their PC 1100/ER40 battery, I will get that one to replace the factory Motorcraft, and save about 10 pounds off of the nose,
without losing ANY power or capacity at all (
unlike the lighter yes, but much weaker, ever popular, PC 625s and PC 680s).
(Plus, I already have the bespoke Odyssey/Schumacher charger for that battery.)