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At 5:15 PM -0600 11/22/97, Melissa & Jim wrote: >I would love to hear from anyone who has found a really slick way to >reinstall the trim around the windows. I have found that it is The Very Big Bentley (Beetle & KG, 1961-65, almost 1,400 pages--the "Body" section [separate from the Frame section] is longer than the entire T3 Bentley!!!) has a procedure for installing the "Garnish Moulding": ------------------------------------------------------------- Lay a length of cable (preferably an old electric cable with insulation, outisde diameter about 2-3mm = 0.08"-0.12") in the channel for the garnish moulding. This is done by means of a piece of tube, one end of which should be flattened. Insert the flat end into the channel and move it completely around the windshield as shown below. The cable, passing through the tube, is thus embedded in the channel as the tube is moved. The two ends of the cable should meet in the middle of the upper or lower edge of the windshield. First push one of the two moulding halves completely into place and then the other. Starting at the point where the cable ends meet, slowly pull out the cable while pushing the garnish moulding into place by hand until the operation is complete. Install the two garnish moulding sleeves. ------------------------------------------------------------- Note that this procedure is done with the weather strip installed on the glass, and before the window is on the car. It's also interesting to note that Bentley instructs us to: "Coat outside of windshield frame with VW Window Cement D 10 all way round." Bentley doesn't mention whether this is *easy*. ;) -Greg '69 & '71 Squarebacks '63 Beetle