I have stripped my beetle back to bare metal and resprayed her, I now have to put humpty back together again !

What's the trick with the aluminium window scrapers ? I also painted over the channels that the windows travel up and down in, I have ordered new parts but am a bit nervous about unscrewing the bolt that is exposed at the bottom bracket, will the window fall if I do this ?

For the window furniture is it a case of pushing it in until it clicks into place ?

I can feel scratches on my new paintwork coming up !

any help is welcome

Cheers,

Scotlander ( melbourne 1500 typ 1)

the trims are fragile so be carefull they bend while your looking at them

use some masking tape along the top edge of the door before fitting the trim make sure the clips line up in the holes and push gently as you will bend the soft trim

what year is the car as there are 2 methods to fitting depend on year

Hi

I had really bad experience after fitting new trims to my sons 74 bug, wound the window up and the scraper rubber gripped on the glass and ripped the clips out of the door bending the trim badly, I cured this by fitting extra clips to the trim, the 74 actually had extra unused holes for the clips, I also found that that the new clips aren't as springy as the old clips, if you can use your old clips.

Steve

Thanks Dave,

the car is a 1970 bug, normal single port jobbie built in Clayton Vic.

I can remember the mess that i got myself into when I ripped out the old ones, they were mangled !, maybe I will leave this bit to the experts and find a friendly specialist here in Melbourne.

I found the secret to attaching the metal trim to the bodyside was to sharpen the ends of the plastic dowels before tapping them into the clips, worked a treat ! ( after i snapped one with the hammer and dented the new paintwork )

Cheers,

Scott

Hi Lee

I had the windows tinted on my yellow bug many years ago, the tint installer actually cut the edge of the inner scrapers to prevent the tint from being marked, when I asked him about this he said did it to all cars, one reason that I will never have window tint on a car again.

Steve

This is a tricky job indeed, but not impossible. It's funny how we worry more about the paintwork than we do about the painful little cuts and bruises that you WILL get on your hands and fingers doing this.

You're right though, the paintwork is WAY more important.

I know this will sound weird, but I'm glad that you guys had trouble as well...makes me feel less like a retard!