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| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 07:12 PM |
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#@%$^#@ 65 beetle windows
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!
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| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 08:01 PM |
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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.
Keeping it real !
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| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 09:03 PM |
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He is blaming the rubber claims wrong shape ......... all of it?
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| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 10:14 PM |
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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.
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| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 10:35 PM |
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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.
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| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 11:11 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by 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!
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I've never done it as I've always thought it was too hard
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
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| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 11:15 PM |
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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...
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| posted on July 22nd, 2009 at 08:08 AM |
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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.
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