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I have to take out the glass window and it doesn't look like a fun job. Has anyone done it before???

Took me and a mate all of about 10 minutes, but thaty have been because we didn't care about the seal.

All we did was unscrew the nuts holding it in place and go to town with a sharpe knife.

Wonder if you could 'Peter Brock' it and kick it out?

Jeo wrote:Took me and a mate all of about 10 minutes, but thaty have been because we didn't care about the seal.

All we did was unscrew the nuts holding it in place and go to town with a sharpe knife.

That's what i was going to do. I thought there might be a more delicate way.

Would the glass guys use a bit of wire to cut their way around?
Is there an actual removable rubber seal, or just black silicone gunk?

When I got a hardtop resprayed the painter got a windscreen mob to do the job of refitting and they used a new seal, reckoned you couldn't depend on a reused one.

If that's the case using a knife and stuffing the seal to get the screen out isn't a problem but if the painter used someone with more expertise it may suggest that the refit is the hard part.

Peter

It's an actual seal, not just black gunk.

I paid $150ish for a whole complete set of four new seals from Mazda (hardtop to car, backa nd side windows)

bruce wrote:Would the glass guys use a bit of wire to cut their way around?

that bit of wire is piano wire so i'm told

If your replacing the seal don't bother with the mazda one its to much $$ for what it is

a standard VN/VR/VS commodore moulding actually looks alot better and fits smoother with the window/hard top

and you woult roughly spend 45 bucks on the seal from mazda vs under 10 bucks from a window mob!

Same goes for the front winshield!
Much cheaper and nicer look going with universal mouldings

but alot of that has to do with mazda pricing!

Thanks for the tip. I will need a new mould when i put the window back in.

Guys, after some advice on this.

Is there two seals or just one? i.e: I've been told there is an internal and external seal.

Just had my car repainted and have the external seal but there appears to be absolutely no way the seal will fit into the hardtop.

I'm guessing that it's just sikaflexed in and they've neglected to fit the rubber before refitting the window, or just cut the old rubber off and taped up the window?

So the questions after all of that...

Is there two rubbers/seals?

Can you fit the external window to hardtop rubber without removing the window?

So a 1:30am SMS confirms that it appears they've sliced or torn the old rubber off and taped the window up, which means the window has to come out properly, the remnants of the old rubber be removed and the window be re stuck with the new rubber.

Apparently not as simple of a job as some as the threads here suggest.