Big pat on the back fella , well done you , andy

 

thanks mate (think ive earnt a pint or two this weekend)

 

glad to hear you got it sorted.



Were you using 1 of those knives with the snapoff blades? or just the normal type blades?
I was wondering how you were gonna manage to remove a rear screen.

& on your own, wow.
starting it and catching it at the end, I bet that's the tricky bits when doing a rear screen.

 

hi rover v6 coupe; i armed myself with 3 knives the snap off variety; removed the trim from around the glass by gently easing it aside and pushing the trim clips upwards (the sit on lugs on the cars body) from inside the car i started to cut away the bonding and clearing it as i went; from outside the car you can just manage to get a knife blade in kept cutting and clearing the dreft as i went; i managed to get through the bond quite quickly; i then removed both rear side windows so i could feed a brake cable through into the car ;wrapped cable around two long bolts and started cutting (carefully) obviusly my arms werent long enough to get all the way round the screen and staff at the scappy refused to help as they have a low success rate at removing bonded screans (just being awkward) worst part was putting screan into my car to be honest; if i had to do another one i reckon with two pair of hands i could have one out in about an hour; im pleased its done with because it is daunting when you know there isnt another one about for miles around

 

thanks for the reply, I just could not imagen/imagion/imageon(wow there is a word I just can not get right!) a normal bladed stanley knife being successful.

Ah, you took rear side windows out too, good. I was trying to picture all sorts of twister game moves going on!

Yeah, they probably did not want to help you, as they would rather you get it out unbroken, so that they can still sell it to you. Not often they will help! although, we found one scrap yard the other year where the chap was unusually helpful, even offered us the odd tool to use! Then he ground down one of our sockets for us too, so it could be used with a large spanner, where a normal socket wrench would not fit. (saved us a lot of time and travelling on what was turning out to be quite a large operation to remove some suspension). Then only charged us a tenner. Couple of other items we needed over the following weeks, he did at £10 each too. We now call it the £10 shop!

 

he sounds like a good old school fella; scrapyards are a dying breed unfortunately mr brown and his sidekicks seem hellbent on getting anything over 7/8 yrs old off the roads and play the enviroment card all too often; whilst getting the screen the scrappy got an extremely tidy x reg ford mondeo in;asked the lad what was up with it and he replied absolutely nothing as such; MADNESS in my eyes cos the car probably had quite a lot of life left in it (sorry for the politics)