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Re: [T3] Window Rubber Installation


On 13 Sep 2003 at 22:29, Dave Hall wrote:

> Rob, did NZ have laminated front screens when the USA did?  Certainly in the UK
> it was still normal fitment to have the toughened (tempered) glass in the front
> as well as the other windows, which makes it much easier to take the glass out -
> push it like all the others, and save the rubber if it's any good.

Wow, do you think you could really do this? Seems like you could really get a 
lot of leverage on a piece of glass as long as a windshield.

> I prefer to fit the rubber to the glass then carefully introduce the metal trim
> with plenty of lubricant (soapy water seems fine).  As you bend the rubber to
> open the slit, you can put the trim in progressively, and the glass keeps the
> shape of it.  I should think it's very difficult to keep the rubber plus trim
> from twisting and bending it.

Yeah, you're right. This sounds much better. I've never been comfortable with 
this step and never found a way to do it that I thought was reliable enough to 
have been what they did at the factory. Anyone know if there is a tool to guide 
the trim into the groove without damaging the trim?

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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