With our insulation and A- and C-pillar trim installed on our project Mini Cooper S, we could now install the front and rear windshields. With new rubber seals and chrome strips designed to hold the glass in ordered from Mini Mania, we just needed some plastic glass tools, strong hands and a little luck.
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Watched Ed China do this on an old Wheeler Dealer episode. He had the tool to insert the plastic trim. IIRC he used para cord to get the glass into the rubber seal. Bob's your uncle.
We did the back window without the tool. What a difference that cheap little tool made.
Don't know how it would work on a Mini but we used to do much the same with VW windshields: Put the seal on the glass, lube the bejeezus out of the seal AND the opening, but wrap cord around the seal channel. Then push the glass into the opening and have a helper pull the cord; installing the glass. Beetles had relatively flat windshields...
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