mengyou ·
Does anybody know somebody I can get to put the glass back in a 65 beetle. It has the stainless trim.The guys who sprayed it can't get them in, nor could their glass guy...they are still looking at each other!
Aussieveedubbers · General Chit Chat
#@\%$^#@ 65 beetle windows
https://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/threads/77943/at-at-65-beetle-windows
silver ·
the chrome trim must go in the rubbers first, its time consuming but not hard. then they go in like normal windows
ps. the glass guy, isn't.
ps. the glass guy, isn't.
mengyou ·
He is blaming the rubber claims wrong shape ......... all of it?🤪
Phil74Camper ·
It could be - did you order '65 rubbers from the USA? They won't fit Aussie '65s (which are the same as '64 and earlier). US '65s have bigger windows.
mengyou ·
I purchased it here.
I will check with them what they have given me. That could be it! Thanks Phil.....so I need 64 rubber if it is from USA.
I will check with them what they have given me. That could be it! Thanks Phil.....so I need 64 rubber if it is from USA.
68AutoBug ·
I've never done it as I've always thought it was too hardmengyou wrote:Does anybody know somebody I can get to put the glass back in a 65 beetle. It has the stainless trim.The guys who sprayed it can't get them in, nor could their glass guy...they are still looking at each other!
lol.. but My Son has done a few and said its fairly easy...
even the aluminium ones... which bend very easily..
Now you know why there are so many cars without the trim around the windows... called the cal look...
but its really because they couldn't put the strips in... lol
LEE
68AutoBug ·
If the rubbers were early ones....
they would be too small....
and late model ones would be too large... lol
most do look wrong to Me too....
and they are the non trim rubbers....
most probably are the correct ones...
corners are a challenge...
the US made rubbers I used could be used any way...
there was no top or bottom...
apart from the joins in the rubber...
LEE
they would be too small....
and late model ones would be too large... lol
most do look wrong to Me too....
and they are the non trim rubbers....
most probably are the correct ones...
corners are a challenge...
the US made rubbers I used could be used any way...
there was no top or bottom...
apart from the joins in the rubber...
LEE
Phil74Camper ·
Lee, all Australian Beetles from 1958 to 1967 all have the same body shell, and the same windows and rubbers. If you order, say, '63 or '64 US-spec rubbers you will be fine.
Only the '57 and earlier oval window Beetles had smaller front and back windows, but even then the side windows are the same as '58-'67.
'68 and later 12-volt Beetles are bigger on all windows.
Only the '57 and earlier oval window Beetles had smaller front and back windows, but even then the side windows are the same as '58-'67.
'68 and later 12-volt Beetles are bigger on all windows.