sladey wrote:Can you post a bit more detail on how to fit it chris? - the other day I was thinking whether or not to take the rear glass out when painting because I understood it was such a pain of a job
Here you go Mark.....This is only my method but it seems to have worked. As I said before, I was too busy swearing and trying to stop the bleeding to take any pictures during the process....not to put you off
I am not sure how to remove the existing glass and seal, from memory I cut out the seal with a Stanley knife when I first bought the car. Also you may need to buy new chrome trim, it is difficult to remove and reuse without bending it too much.
So the Process:
- A Patient Assistant with strong thumbs....and a solid box to stand on, so they can apply more pressure when needed.
- Have a bowl and spray Bottle of diluted Washing-up liquid ready
- Place glass topside up on an old car tyre
- Fit a GENUINE Porsche seal to the glass
- Insert Clothes Line into groove. Start on bottom edge at 6 inches to left of centre. Leave about 12 inches hanging out (don't start
) and run around whole seal, overlap when you get back to the bottom, leaving another 12 inches free and put tape on this end.
- Fit Chrome trim. Wet finger with Washing-up liquid and rub along groove first. Take time to make sure it is properly fitted into the Groove, you will hear it 'Click' in. It will Pop out again slightly during fitting, but it is worth the effort to fit it correctly at this stage
- It should now look like this:
- Place some Washing-up liquid on the Lip around window frame of the Car.
- Place Glass with everything fitted onto Car. Spend time to make sure it is central, and make sure the hanging ends of the Clothes Line sit onto the Parcel Shelf.
- The Seal will sit proud of the body and nowhere near the frame Lip. Push on top of the seal, especially by the roof to get it somewhere near the Lip. Careful not to Pop out Chrome Trim
- Now the FUN abit !
- With your assistant pushing here, and you inside the car:
- Start pulling out the length of Clothes Line with tape on. Pull at 90 degrees to the Rubber, pulling directly towards yourself. GO SLOWLY...The idea is that the assistant follows you along the seal, applying pressure as you pull. Go really slowly around the corner. Continue 6 inches up the side, and then repeat the process with the other Clothes line Hanging end.
- This is what you are trying to achieve:
- Now it gets tricky. Go back to the other side and continue up to the top corner. The seal will sit Concave on the glass, but it needs to sit Convex against the body. Spray some Washing-up liquid against the seal and body. We managed to continue fitting the screen and then run a Childs Ikea Plastic Knife under the seal to pop it into the Concave position. HOWEVER I think it would be possible to do this process with the Knife whilst pushing down on the seal, just depends how strong your assistants thumbs are:
- I also made a Hook which helped 'Tweak' the seal into place from inside:
- Copy on the other side, and you should be DONE !
- You will now probably need to Tap down the Chrome trim with a Rubber mallet, just take it easy
- Final look inside should look like this ( I have no Headliner )
- Good luck, it took us 2 attempts. The Tricky area is around the those top corners !
Cheers
Chris
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