Posted: 3/27/2009 12:00:47 PM EDT
| We have some punk kids running around town shooting out car windows w/bb guns. Well looks like last night was my turn. My 2005 chevy trailblazer got hit on the rear driver side quarter pannel window. I know how to replace glass that sits on tracks and rolls up and down. But I am looking over this thing and I cannot figure out how to replace a fixed window. I called around and the shops want 300-400 to replace it. I figured I would find one at a junkyard and do it myself. Any ideas on how to do this. I can't find it online and clymers manual is no help. |
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I'm not sure what the deal is on that Blazer, but I know if its anything like a windshield..where the glass sits in a pocket which is filled with a rubbery adhesive on the sides, get a peice of piano wire or a guitar string about a foot long, attach a peice of wood at each end and stick the wire between the body of the truck and the window through the rubber crap, and use the wire like a saw , might take two people on each side, get a replacement window and clean everything up, go to a autoparts store and buy this: http://www.technologylk.com/product/987/CRL-3M-Automotive-Bedding-and-Glazing-Sealant/2695/3M8509/CRL-3M-Automotive-Bedding-and-Glazing-Sealant-3M8509.htm?src=froogle
Or just ask for "window weld" or windshield weld..whatever they will know, and put the new window in with enough window weld to hold it in, i've done it once or twice. |
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Wow 300 to 400? Did you call shops that will put in NEW glass or did you call boneyards? I had a boneyard put mine in, although much older car, 1992. Total including install was about $80. I am checking the bone yards in the morning. All the shops in the phone book will only do new ones. Not sure if our boneyards will do the replacement but if I can get the glass there I think I can get her in. My current window spiderwebed clean out. So if the boneyard can take thiers out for me it should go in easy. |