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[Waketrail]

Model: 998 Saloon Jet Black edition
Year: 1988
Description of problem:

First a description of the part to help make some sense. The opening type rear quarter glass is sandwiched between a strip of chrome surraround the rim. Between the chrome and glass is a thin rubber seal holding them together.
The situation I have is with the rubber seal. This rubber is crumbling from all the sun and winters. Does anyone know if they sell a replacement rubber seal? All I can find is an entire window unit with the glass and chrome. And the entire unit is expensive!

If this rubber can't be replaced, does anyone have a solution?

Thanks for your help.

[Bungle]

call into your local car glass place and see if their modern stuff the stick windows on with will do the job

[Waketrail]

I was wondering as an alternative... Is it possible to convert the rear quarter glass into a non-opening type if I just strip off the chrome and seal?
Or is the glass for a non-opening window a different shape?

[Ethel]

I think the glass is smaller. You can dismantle the opening frames by carefully cutting off the rivet heads at the join. You may well find a suitable glazing seal at a glaziers, boat chandlers or one of the kitcar parts suppliers. I don't see why sikoflex or RTV Silicon wouldn't do the job, you could make up a few u shaped spacers to centre the class in the channels while it hardens.

[Dan]

Yes they sell it as a seperate part. It's a flat rubber strip about 2" wide with a textured surface that grips the glass. You fold it over the glass and then run the frame around it before trimming the excess. You have to pull the rubber fairly tight to get it all into the frame but go too tight and it tears. I change the rubber whenever I fit a new glass to the frame, to be honest re-using it isn't very possible.

Glazing rubber.

That's from Mini Spares obviously. I think it's a little cheaper at Moss but remember that while Mini Spares sell it cut to length for the Mini, Moss deal with other cars too so they sell it by the metre. The rolls Mini Spares sell pre-cut are 2 metres so make sure you order enough if you go to Moss. The pre-cut rolls are a little long for one window, especially when you stretch it. So 3 metres would probably be enough to do both but it would be terrible to run short. I'd stick to 2 metres for each if I were you, it always helps to have a little extra because it always tears a bit and if you have extra you can start again.

Also, you shouldn't need to drill any rivets to do this. The fixings are rivetted to the frame but on every frame I've dealt with the final closure is by a single pozidrive screw (size 0 or size 1 screwdriver, it's tiny). That is all you need to remove.

Edited by Dan, 07 April 2009 - 03:44 PM.