Basically, someone smashed in my windshield, we're going to try to put a new one in our selves. Any helpful tips? What to buy or not buy.. what to not screw up.. etc..
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You probably won't save $20, and you'll spend twice that on materials and time. Not to mention the risk of breaking it, getting it in wrong and having it leak, damaging the paint around it, and so on.

I don't particularly recommend that as a suitable candidate for a DIY project.

You need to get the entire place that it sits in, ABSOLUTELY clean; repair any rust that's in there; paint it with the primer stuff for the butyl seal strip; lay in the seal strip (I'm not sure offhand what size these cars use, but the glass company knows); set the little positioning blocks in place; set the widshield in; bump it down flat and level as required all the way around VERY GENTLY with a rubber mallet; and install the trim strip. Works best on a warm day, or indoors in a heated garage, otherwise the seal strip is too stiff to work with easily.

Sounds alot easier than it really is.

You can save part of the install cost (maybe) if you do all the prep work yourself, and the glass company only has to set it in place. Call them and price stuff before you jump into it.

 

Sorry to steal from ur post but i got a ? How would u go about removing the windshield without breaking it ie. junkyard
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In the winter it's nearly impossible to get a windshield out without breaking it. The colder it gets the harder it is.

 

Use piano wire to remove it, but it is very hard to do if you dont know what you are doing, and alot of junk yards will make you pay for it before you take it out, so if you break it you are screwed.....as bad as I hate to im going to pay someone to do mine, as it is the onlything on my car that does not look good to me....Good luck, and if you do it yourself let us know how it goes...Tom