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On 10 Dec 97, Richard Visser wrote: > I had the same experience. Tried it myself with a NOS rubber bought at VW. > No way! Went to a professional. They put two suction pads on the outside. > Through those a belt going inside the car with a tension pulley block (also > used against load shifting on the back of an open truck or so) with which they > pulled the window in. While doing this we were also pushing and tapping on > the window. With three of the pro's and me and a buddy of mine it costed at > least two houres work and a lot of sweat. After paying the standard price i > left, at each bump hoping the windshield wouldn't come out with the same > force we had put it in. > > btw: We started at the bottom and worked our way up. I shared the same concern as many of you others so I hired a pro to come out. Together we wasted a half hour trying to do it the way I wanted (with the late retainer strips in). He finally gave up in frustration and ripped my retainer strips out and had the windshield in without a hitch in less than 15 minutes. It was only after this that I found out that there was a difference in size between windshields that were made for the retainer strips and the rest. My replacement was a generic and therefore most likely the larger non-retainer strip size. He was right; I was wrong. His way worked. We just used the cord in the grove method with the overlap on the bottom and inserted the bottom edge first. If I had another windshield to do I might still hire a pro to do it, but all the other glass I did myself with the help of a friend or my wife. Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- Melissa Kepner Jim Adney Laura Kepner-Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------