Re: Smashed Window
Today, July 2012
Another update that i didnt want to merge into the last as its not the best!
I was woken this morning by the girlfriends mother for her to tell me that my car window had been smashed! I jumped out of bed and looked out of the window and saw that my drivers door window had been smashed!
I didnt take any pictures as i was thinking more about getting it fixed. I posted a quick
thread in the wanter section and
Daveski came to my rescue.
He said he had a drivers door glass spare and that i could have it for free. So off i went to nottingham with the missus to pick up the glass. On my way there i got a call off Dave to say he had to pop out but he would leave it behind the bins.
Couldnt have asked for anything more from him. A real god send when in need. Ill be tracking him down at CSS to give him some beer tokens!
Anyways, once i had picked it up i got back and started fitting it!
I had never fitted a window before, but thought to myself that it couldnt be that hard, and in fairness, it wasnt!
Glass was everywhere but i left this for later. I wanted to make sure i could get the window in!
I stripped all the rubber surround, doorcard and speaker off and then slid the glass in!
New glass off Dave.
Once i slid the glass in, i hooked it onto the support bar and then slid the holding clip on. (
Holding clip is the yellow/peachy coloured plastic!)
The holding clip is the white bit of plastic!
I was so surprised at how easy it was to fit. Once i had got to this stage, i just had to get the rubber seals back on, and then i'd be up and running.
Once i got all the rubber stip back on, i hoovered all the glass out and then put the doorcard and speaker back together.
The rubber strip that went all around the door now looks cr4p in my opinion. It got all twisted and bent when removing it so i think im going to try and find a new one!
Anyone got one ? PM Me!
Anyways, this is what it looks like now!
You can see from the photo how bumpy it looks and i even tried to flatten them down but i still dont like it.
Ill hopefully have better luck next time!