who needs a windscreen.....setup a holder for ur rego sticker and pretend u have really clean glass lol!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jamie @ Apr 15 2008, 06:32 PM) </div>hAVE YOU CHECKED OUT THE PRICE OF A NEW SCREEN?!? $490 RRP FOR THE AE86.... MIGHT MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT IT NOW....
who needs a windscreen.....setup a holder for ur rego sticker and pretend u have really clean glass lol!
just talked about it with mate, he reckons shove a long bit of wire through the rubber seal, wrap both sides of the wire around wooden blocks (to avoid cutting your' precious girly hands) and pull the wire the entire way around the window to cut the seal.
The AE86 does not have a rubber windscrean seal. The windscrean is glued to the cars body. It is stuck in with a polyurathene sealant I think, Sik-a-flex or something.
To remove the windscrean, you may have to first remove the left and right door rubbers, not sure. Then remove the trim pieces around the windscrean which are aluminium. Use a shaft knife to cut around the windscrean, then use a bit of piano wire with a wooden handle on either end to cut through the seal. This is not easy, you need one person inside and on outside to start with. You can try with very thin piano wire, or 2 wires twisted together to work better as a saw.
You can get a new windscreen fitted for $200 on the gold coast, if you payed that price Medwin you got royally screwed, who did you go through, looks like a w,screen O`brien price.
the clips on the top are a bitch to get out, managed to break all but one, anyone know where you get new ones easily, i feel bad for eddie lol.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jonny Rochester @ Apr 15 2008, 11:54 PM) </div>
this definetely sounds easiest as getting a stanley knife into the seal at the bottom (between the dash and the glass) was impossible. Oh and be careful of the brittle trim piece on the pillar (for ke70 not sure about ae86).
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gunbz-r @ Apr 15 2008, 11:01 PM) </div>All you have to do is glue the top trim back on with sikaflex.
I did this last year. I got my old one out with the piano wire trick, it was cracked though so bought a new one. $150 or $160 from Novus Windscreens from memory. Def not $490, I'm in Brisbane though.
I removed all the old sealant down to basically metal, then used Sikaflex to stick down. The top trim is the only difficult one to replace, I sort of used a combination of the plastic clips I had, and more Sikaflex. Pretty sure I didn't need to remove the door rubbers to get at it, just the top trim and the 2 screw-down side trims.
I got quoted $230 installed by Economy Windscreens in Brisbane yesterday. Looking forward to the crack-free viewing
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