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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: omegod on 02 October 2013, 16:49:40

Title: Windscreen removal?
Post by: omegod on 02 October 2013, 16:49:40
One of the more bizarre request for parts from my breaker is a local guy who needs a windscreen. I haven't a hope of removing it myself without the tools I think you need but I think it's fair enough to let him sort removal himself on an " at your own risk basis" i.e pay first and if you bugger it up it's your problem.

 Any thoughts or has someone successfully removed one themselves?
Title: Re: Windscreen removal?
Post by: tunnie on 02 October 2013, 17:00:01
Sharp knife would do it, lot easier with a cheese wire type tools they have with hand cranks on them
Title: Re: Windscreen removal?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 October 2013, 17:16:06
Have removed one myself :y done carefully it is theoretically possible to remove it without breaking it, but a bit of a gamble...

From your point of view if he screws it up, will the car still be secure/ watertight...

If car is indoors/undercover you could hwve a go at removing it yourself :y
Title: Re: Windscreen removal?
Post by: Steve B on 02 October 2013, 18:07:05
Just had look in the garage and this is the stuff i have to do with windscreen removal. Along with the tool (somewhere)to stab the cheese wire through the bond and a windscreen stand.(trestle)  :y


(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70807181/windscreen.JPG)

Title: Re: Windscreen removal?
Post by: zirk on 03 October 2013, 13:07:30
Assuming you have the suckers, you can buy the tool and some wire for around a tenner, the tool works well and is easier to work than you think, after going around with the wire I went around again with some thin string to increase the bond gap, biggest problem is getting the Screen off in one piece without cracking the bottom corners.   
Title: Re: Windscreen removal?
Post by: Steve B on 03 October 2013, 14:18:13
Assuming you have the suckers, you can buy the tool and some wire for around a tenner, the tool works well and is easier to work than you think, after going around with the wire I went around again with some thin string to increase the bond gap, biggest problem is getting the Screen off in one piece without cracking the bottom corners.
:-\
Title: Re: Windscreen removal?
Post by: zirk on 03 October 2013, 16:19:25
Assuming you have the suckers, you can buy the tool and some wire for around a tenner, the tool works well and is easier to work than you think, after going around with the wire I went around again with some thin string to increase the bond gap, biggest problem is getting the Screen off in one piece without cracking the bottom corners.
:-\
I found that after going around with the cheese wire, some of it stuck together again, so went again with some string, was a hot day though. Or maybe it had been stuck on with the wrong glue or something.
Title: Re: Windscreen removal?
Post by: Steve B on 03 October 2013, 18:23:27
Well things have moved on now. Look at this bit of kit ;D ;D ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdiqxLhtfFc
Title: Re: Windscreen removal?
Post by: r1 on 03 October 2013, 19:18:44
Well things have moved on now. Look at this bit of kit ;D ;D ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdiqxLhtfFc

bet that's not a tenner