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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Gloves88 on 31 December 2008, 13:14
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I've been in touch with my local VW and it would seem that the windscreen seal has been discontinued...
Does anyone know where I could get one from?
Or if anyone has one would they like to sell it to me :smiley:
Cheers
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after market ones can be bought, but they are quite frankly poop..
best getting a secondhand one tbh
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get down the scrappy and kick out a windscreen! thats where i got mine from. apparently you can get the screen out without breaking it......... i didnt :laugh:
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No mk2's at my scrappy just now :sad:
Think i've managed to sort one now tho :smiley:
Getting the screen out whole without cutting the seal is impossible lol
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Getting the screen out whole without cutting the seal is impossible lol
Not at all. :wink:
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Getting the screen out whole without cutting the seal is impossible lol
Not at all. :wink:
Share.... :smiley:
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Sit in the driver seat and put your feet against window and apply pressure, get a screw driver and start in the top corner folding the seal forward. Can be a pain to get going as the seal pops back, easier if there's two people. Once it starts moving it pops straight out. Put it back in with some cord over lapping it at the top, Vaseline also helps. :smiley:
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Sit in the driver seat and put your feet against window and apply pressure, get a screw driver and start in the top corner folding the seal forward. Can be a pain to get going as the seal pops back, easier if there's two people. Once it starts moving it pops straight out. Put it back in with some cord over lapping it at the top, Vaseline also helps. :smiley:
Exactly.. jsut a flat blade worked around slowly, youll find some areas of the seal will release gradually, then you can gradually work it out. a pusher and a catcher.. and it will pop out, after all the seal is only lipped around in a U shape! :smiley:
We managed it no trouble on my white one!
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Alternatively, you could get a windscreen bonded in as per G60 and Rallye's. Will make the body more rigid too, but you will pay for it!
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Sit in the driver seat and put your feet against window and apply pressure, get a screw driver and start in the top corner folding the seal forward. Can be a pain to get going as the seal pops back, easier if there's two people. Once it starts moving it pops straight out. Put it back in with some cord over lapping it at the top, Vaseline also helps. :smiley:
Exactly.. jsut a flat blade worked around slowly, youll find some areas of the seal will release gradually, then you can gradually work it out. a pusher and a catcher.. and it will pop out, after all the seal is only lipped around in a U shape! :smiley:
We managed it no trouble on my white one!
Hmm...ok, cool...will give that a go...
I cracked the last one i took out by doing something similar but at the time I didnt really care how it came out as i was replacing it anyway.
Cheers guys
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Alternatively, you could get a windscreen bonded in as per G60 and Rallye's. Will make the body more rigid too, but you will pay for it!
is it bonded using the same seal as non bonded? or straight to the frame?
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its bonded to the metal frame with a filler piece in the gap
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do you know if the strip is still available from vw? is it reusable? might be worth converting to this as i now have 4 growing stonechips in the windscreen!
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apparently this is discontinued, but it seems it should be included with a new screen. but it seems the screen is also discontinued! its still best to ring VW direct as my copy of ETOS wont show if part numbers have been replaced since the software came out, it can only update prices for the part numbers actually in the program!
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renfrew car breakers have 5 golf mk 2 in stock,hawkhead rd at paisley have 3 in stock,