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[96minimig]

Hi there I have a 1994 sprite which has the fixed rear quarter light windows (non opening)

I am aiming to paint the car myself and would obviosly like to remove these before but i am confused to how you remove them without breaking the glass. I only imagine they are roped in but how that works i have no idea.

 

Could anyone enlighten me to how i could remove them, where i can obtain new seals and how to refit them.

 

Cheers.

Chris.

[Domneon]

I cut the seals using a stanley blade as the I will be replacing the seals, window pops out nicely then

[alex-95]

Like above, I would cut them, much easier and less likely to break the glass.

[Ben_O]

You can do it by gently easing the rubber up from inside but its quite risky if you are not very careful.

Cutting the rubber is probably cheaper than replacing the glass though.

 

Ben 

[CityEPete]

I have the same, you can get the new seals easy enough, ebay or minispares. I presume the new ones will be nice and supple when the time comes to replace them, if yours are like mine it will be a knife job to cut the old ones out.

To rope them back in you run a wire around the seal where the body will be with the glass already inside the rubber, washing line with the plastic coating is good, overlap the ends then get some one to hold it all firmly in place with the string ends inside the car, as you pull one end the seal will start to lip over the body, keep pulling and swearing and eventually its in! Give it a firm push all over to make sure its in place rather than sitting alongside the frame.

Edited by CityEPete, 11 February 2014 - 06:18 PM.

[bpirie1000]

As above.. Best cut them.. And don't want neighbours seeing how easy it is to get into a mini.....

[96minimig]

cheers guys will cut the old ones out and rope new ones in then. I have a brother in law soon to be that works for Auto Glass so he might be better skilled then me roping the new seals/window back in when the time comes

[tiger99]

That is exactly what I would do, cut the rubbers, and then pay an expert to put them back in with new rubbers, because small windows like these are very difficult. Been there, never again! Larger ones, like the windscreen on many cars, are easier with the rope method.

 

But, even better, I have a pair of opening side windows, with seals, lying in my shed, waiting for my next Mini. They are easy to fit, as long as the brackets are already welded in to the shell. Only snag is that they would be non-original on a car which had fixed windows, and could upset the purists or make it less valuable. On a modified car, that would not matter much.