Is it a standard size or is it different for a Rover?

Does anyone have a "How To" on changing it?

Thanx, een.

special little tool, soapy water ,patience,extreme frustration, lot of swearing sore fingers or get a professional to do it make him/her a cup of coffee because thats how long it will take them to do it.

Front or back
Front is the same - back is different. Both are readily available from mini suppliers.

Not hard to fit a screen but but fiddly and does cause bad language wars between husband who is fitting and wife who is helping. Needs two people unless you are a windscreen fitter.

Use a soft faced hammer to bang the new rubber onto the screen ledge first. Do not cut it - do not cut it.

The squirt some washing up detergent in the recess where the glass is going to go. Do the all the way round. Get the glass and place it the bottom in the glass recess as best you can. With your now bad tempered wife holding the glass in position, use a screw driver (or similar) to go all the way round the screen getting the rubber over the glass inside and out side of the car.

Centre the glass that is now in the recess so its equal all the way around and with the NEW windscreen rubber locking strip begin to insert that to lock the screen in place.

There are two ways to do this - one is the painstaking method with a screw driver and the other is with the special windcreen locking rubber dooover tool that is shown in the mini manuals. Thats make a fiddly job a lot easier.

You can get them at most auto parts shop (repco autoOne etc) or the mini suppliers.

The only this to be really careful about (besides a make up dinner for the wife) is that used laminated screens are fairly brittle and crack easily. So be careful. Brute force is not needed.

Mike

The tip I got for laminated screens is to leave the screen in the sun to warm it up. It will be less likely to crack.

When I did mine I found it to be a lot easier then everyone has said. I made a mylair (?) tool from a piece of coathanger wire and held it with vise grips. I found the key was to spray heaps and heaps of window cleaner into the rubber as I was feeding the locking strip in through the tool. I also found that I forced the locking strip into the corners so if it does start to shrink at some stage, there should be enough in there to prevent it cracking.

I think Mick had a picture of the vire tool he bent up and I of course just copied off his design

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I imported the proper diamond shaped wire tool from Minispares but found the old blunt rounded off screwdriver worked better for me.
Maybe I'm missing something....

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I used a slightly different way but still needed my wife's help (and she was 7 months pregnant at the time!).

Put the rubber on the windscreen. Do a dry test first (so that you know they right way - i.e. the gap for the filler strip is on the outside and the join is at the bottom) before you put it on for real with the sealant. Bit of a bugger if you screw it up. Let it cure overnight.

Once it's cured you're ready to get it in the car. Put the sealant into the gap for the rubber/metal side. Now here's the difference from the other method. Get some strong string (like the type that butchers use) and wrap it around the window inside the rubber/window gap where the sealant is. Do a few times around as it may break and you want to maximise your chances of success. Next place the window up against the window space. Don't forget to spray lots of soapy water around. Use the string to pull the rubber through the window space whilst your wife (or girlfriend or both even) keeps pressure on from the outside.

Hope this is clear although i doubt it as it's hard to describe! It does work though and it's good if you're worried about damaging your window from impacting it with a (soft) hammer.

Good luck!

In a past job I fitted Large and Small sheets of glass into alloy frames.

Window cleaner is the best thing to use and also when its come to cleaning off the Silicon its brillaint.

miniclubbhoy I like your method also

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Did all that except without a pregnant wife helping and I used some plastic tubing i had that seemed around the right size. I put it in by myself just by being patient,in about 35 minutes.

And i found the method in the How Tos. Come on people, that is why they are there http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35046.

Also made the tool for the locking strip and with soapy water to help, had it locked in another ten minutes later. Start to finish, first attempt ever, including research time to get the best method = less than 1 hour.

cheers
michael

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Hey Guys - I bought new rubbers, locking strips and the tool to update my car (rubbers cracking and chrome strip all yellowy)

My question is - what's the best way to go about getting the window out??

All the instructions so far are about putting the window back in - what's the safest, easiest technique for removal???

Pull the locking strip out and gently,gently apply pressure to one of the top corners of the window using a flat palm on the inside of the car.

A disproportionate amount of pressure is needed to speed things up, so just apply a moderate pressure and be patient. You will see the rubber start to pull away from the glass and once this has happened it's easy to continue around the top of the glass using your hand and perhaps a screwdriver to help.

The pushing will remove the glass from the rubber, or take the rubber and the windscreen away from the car all together, it doesn't matter how it comes away, as long as it does.

Once the top and a good portion of the sides are removed, lift the windscreen vertically away from the car.


Or...put a brick through it and stand by with a large bin and a vacuum cleaner.

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Thanks - I'd like to keep it intact.

Oh...how boring....then try plan A before using plan B

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