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 jeremyluke
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 posted on March 20th, 2011 at 09:33 PM |
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Window Chrome Trim
Looking at this on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130446710237&ss...
Roll of chrome trim for around windows. Has anybody ever used this type of chrome insert before ? Any advice, is it difficult to use?
What size do i have to buy it in (comes in 3 different sizes) ? How long to do all 4 windows on a '71 super?
Do i have to put it into the rubber prior to putting the windows back in ?
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| posted on March 21st, 2011 at 06:10 AM |
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How much do you need? I've got some left. I'll measure what I have, And I'm local.
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| posted on March 21st, 2011 at 10:26 AM |
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Yeah that would be great, enough to do all 4 windows
How hard is it to use ?
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| posted on March 21st, 2011 at 01:45 PM |
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I would ask the seller for a cross section/profile picture of the stuff as there is several different types out there.
but firstly do you have already have the chrome strip style rubbers? nearly everyone has the smooth Callook rubbers.
The stuff is a pain to work with especially the alumnium type which is what beetles 72 and earlier had, it likes to kink.
73 onwards had the plastic stuff which the chrome peeled off 5 mins after leaving the showroom and they went a nice shade of brown.
You have to pop the windows out to install it too if you have got the right window rubbers.
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| posted on March 21st, 2011 at 04:39 PM |
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yep the trim insert has to match the groove in the rubber or it wont fit together
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jeremyluke
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| posted on March 21st, 2011 at 05:30 PM |
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Im putting the car back together after paint. So i bout new rubbers with the trim groove, and the windows are still out as i havent put the headliner
in. It did have the original metal ones in it but obviously impossible to remove without kinking. The one in the listing is PVC, so its semi flexible,
well enough to roll it obviously, but like you said, depends on the shape and the shape of the groove...
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| posted on March 21st, 2011 at 07:29 PM |
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and depends on which rubbers u purchase as there are several differnt sizes n shapes
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 posted on March 22nd, 2011 at 09:56 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by jeremyluke
Looking at this on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130446710237&ss...
Roll of chrome trim for around windows. Has anybody ever used this type of chrome insert before ? Any advice, is it difficult to use?
What size do i have to buy it in (comes in 3 different sizes) ? How long to do all 4 windows on a '71 super?
Do i have to put it into the rubber prior to putting the windows back in ?
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The round trim MUST be inserted BEFORE the glass goes in...
the aluminium strips are very difficult to deal with although My Son still uses them...
I only tried once back around 1969...
I will admit that the windscreen shattered on a highway in the middle of now where... the service station [they were also everywhere] had a new
windscreen... when the rubber came out it went all twisted along with the aluminium...
I pulled the trim out and threw it away.... [littering]
Never ever tried to install it since then...
The plastic beading [now very expensive in USA] the chrome comes off as it appears to be NON UV resistant...
If You only take Your beetle out of the garage on wet days,
then the chrome may last a long time.....
LEE
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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| posted on March 22nd, 2011 at 12:21 PM |
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I put the chrome strips (actually plastic I think) in mine when I had it re-sprayed 3 1/2 years ago, and they are still fine. I got both the rubbers
and the strip from Wolfsburg automotive, so I knew they would match.
From your ole' mate Jeff
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| posted on March 23rd, 2011 at 03:41 PM |
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The rubbers are West Coast Metric if that helps, so does anybody know where i can buy the trim to suit those rubbers ?
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| posted on March 23rd, 2011 at 04:19 PM |
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I used the original trim in mine, It's not hard to remove if you are carefull, it is a bit fiddly to refit and you will have sore fingers for a while
but not too hard to do.
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| posted on March 23rd, 2011 at 04:49 PM |
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Where and how much is it for all the windows tho ?
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| posted on March 23rd, 2011 at 07:45 PM |
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The rubbers are West Coast Metric if that helps, so does anybody know where i can buy the trim to suit those rubbers ?
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