Hi peeps. Has anyone replaced a Panda windscreen themselves - is it straightforward?
Cheers, Mike

not replaced one, but sort of removed one, just lift the rubbers from outside in one place, and push out from inside pushing inner rubber with it

If you remove it could you do me a favour, and take pics of the bottom of the screen where is sits and the drainage pipes are please

Jon.

Cheers

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If you remove it could you do me a favour, and take pics of the bottom of the screen where is sits and the drainage pipes are please

Jon.

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No problem Jon, but I probably won't be doing it any time soon. My windscreen's badly scratched and I've just bought a new one, but it's not that urgent.
Mike

Just a thought, I have put a couple of windows in to panda's and found it to be tricky. Cracked one which needed replacing and another that I just put up with in the end (only cracked the very corner though). Now this might not be a typical experience as every time I have had to do it, there has been some extensive rust repairs to reconstruct the windscreen frame and despite best efforts the frame may have been too tight for the screen to fit.

Has anyone else had some experience with these windscreens that might be more typical? Ie just taken out the window because the screen was broken, not because there was a dirty great hole in the car! lol.

Si

I hada replace the one on my first car as some stupid bag secided to smack the screen right where there was a chip. Replaced with a screen from a scrappy and broke the first one trying to remove it.


A long bit of string, some fairy liquid or wd40. Some thing slippy. After you have the rubber around the new one, wrap the string from one corner the whole way round. Over lap where you started right up to the other side. Grease it all up.

Set the bottom of screen onto the lip of frame. You will need to people. Make sure you keep the string tight. Start pulling the string along the length of the bottom rubber, pulling towards the middle of screen at all times. You should see the rubber lifting up and over the metal, the other person should at all times be pressing the scteen into the car, and not leting it move in any direction.

Do this the whole way round. You may want to pull the other end of string and work both ends around at the same time. Try to finish on a flat rather than the corner. May take more than one attempt.

Lovely crisp method!! I'll be trying it in the not too distant future!

Nice one.

Luke

The soap and string method is good by all acounts though I admit to not having done it myself. I would say though use car shampoo rather than fairy liquid. Dish washing soaps have salts that help corrosion take hold, and you don't want rust around your windows.

Cheers for that, but I wouldn't use Fairy, I know the salt issue, I've got some gunge I used to use for pulling cables through conduit that would probably do the trick.
Mike