It's not so cold out there yet, but it is believed a cold winter is ahead folk, which is bad excitement for cabriolet owners by using plastic rear windows.
The freezing cold weather creates the plastic windows very brittle and prone to damage - this is reflected in the ratio of customers we get on which December & January several weeks.
It is one of the most annoying things when then your perfect looking hood functions hole in the cosmetic rear window! The hood looks great, except for that hole/rip/tear in the window. It seems a shame to have to replace the whole hood if it is just the window , involving replacing. Luckily it can be possible to only affect what rear window, rather then this whole hood!
Every car design has another kind of hood, sometimes there's even a choice of hoods with a whole list of sorts of rear window. The Mazda MX5 for example comes in either material - vinyl or perhaps a cloth - and a choice of window - plastic, orthopedic glass, zipped plastic, non-zipped plastic-type, zipped heated glass, non-zipped heated glass and lots of other variations.
9 on account of 10 times a plastic rear window behave as replaced, some easier than those. For example the BMW E30, BMW E36 and the competition BMW Z3 mostly come with a zip going right around the window. This means is that your only labour costs involved is unzipping the age old and zipping in the newest rear window - a somewhat 45-minute job. You have to be sure tough that it happens to be an OEM window so as to be sure that they fit properly.
The Mercedes 129 however , not as simple as that. The window is stitched to the actual hood, wherefore the whole hoods needs to be removed in order for days stitching to be unpicked and new window re-stitched. There is a lot of work involved right there, so the price with regard to replacing this window can be very high, but this is still a cheaper option than getting a brand new hood.
The Mazda MX5 has a zip, but only high on the hood and doesnrrt form part pf the window assembly. The window is stitched to the hood. This means that choose the Mercedes hood the hood must be completely removed, the stitching unpicked, and the bedroom window replaced.
The Peugeot 306 comes with a very interesting way of attaching the window to the hood - may perhaps be melted into place about electrodes. There are wires running around the rim of the window in which a current is passed which often heats it up and bonds it up on the hood. We suspect only Peugeot garages may then bond a window in this manner.
It is still possible for us to replace your window, but not using currently the electrode method. What we would do is remove the age old window, and replace it by stitching new ones in place. The only difference here would be that the stitching is visible.
Some hoods support bonded rear window, that mean window is bonded towards the hood using heat. An unforgettable press-welder does this also in bonds and presses what number of heated molten plastic to your hooding material. ETC owns sort tool, which enables all of us bond windows into budget friendly hood. The whole hood needs to be removed to do this until the old window can be used out, and a new window they can be bonded into place.
The other day we had an old MGB come in after some hole in the butt plastic window. The owner wanted individuals replace the damaged arena only but sadly on this hood has a rear-window that covers the particular rear window and the side windows. We advised our potential customer to locate a new hood, as the labour cost to unstitch the complete section would cost more than to purchase vinyl MG hood.
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