You need to use a hot knife to get it out. Call a glass company that installs glass, they may do it for free.

 

The closest glass place is about 5-10 miles from here, and as you can see i have no motor so they would have to come here. Ill call and get a price, if not ill just experiment trying to get it out.

I dont know maybe i can heat it a little, get some welding wire through it and just work it around. :12dunno

 

The closest glass place is about 5-10 miles from here, and as you can see i have no motor so they would have to come here. Ill call and get a price, if not ill just experiment trying to get it out.

I dont know maybe i can heat it a little, get some welding wire through it and just work it around. :12dunno

Piano wire works better.

 

eh, i've removed one, wasnt pretty. i'd let a glass shop do it just to be safe, i ended up ruining part of the outside seal, but i dont need the window anyway. and i know most autoglass places around here will come out and install, so i'd definitely call and ask.

 

yeah I kinda butchered the one seal, but it was messed up to begin with. Ill call tomorrow. If they want more than $50 (which i bet they will) ill be attempting to remove it myself.

Is there even anywhere to get that seal at? Is it necessary for it to even be there? The glass is sealed in all the way around so i dont think water would really get in?

 

In for pretty much the same info...

Can new seals and window trim still be bought or if an autoglass company reinstalled the glass would they source the trim and seals? Same questions for the sunroof.

Thanks!

 

DONT EXPERIMENT if you want to keep the glass...i tried removing my 1/4 glass on my parts car and i was pulling on the rubber seal that goes around it, and the window EXPLODED. it was so loud and it scared the shit of me and it sucked even more when i went and looked in the mirror at all the glass in my face...it was a bad day

 

Well I called today and some lady answered the phone. She said about $150-175 to REMOVE both sides alone WTF is she on crack or something? I got a brand new windsheild and had it installed at my house for $30 more.

So ill be trying it myself. I already got most of the molding off the one side but waited on the other incase they were going to remove.

Which brings me to my next question...do you NEED that molding there? It appears that the window is glued with adhesive all the way around so it cant leak. Since I pretty much mutilated my molding, upon re-install can I just put the adhesive all the way around without the molding? I mean it looks fine and the car is getting repainted. As long as its fully sealed it should be fine...or no?

 

it will be ok but will look crap. Paint doesnt stick to silicone though
You can get new seals from nissan

 

pay the money last one i tried to remove i ended up breaking

 

I actually just removed mine last night, it was cake... But there is a trick. My buddy works at a Junkyard, they have this tool that sends electromagnetic waves through the glass to heat the metal. This will allow you to use wood shims to work out the glass.

So my advice to you is, go to a junk yard see if they have one of these machines. If they do ask them if they could do the side work for like 50 bucks. Definitely worth it!

 

about 2hrs of continuous work, a box of band-aids, and some domino's pizza and I got the passenger window out:1bowdown . unbroken none the less. I did find a TINY chip in the side but the molding hids that so no biggy. Now that I know how to remove it the drivers side will be alot easier.

Just for others here is how I did mine...
First I entered this totally blind, never in my life removing a peice of glass from a car. I pretty much expected it to shatter but it didnt.

I accidently threw away the old welding wire i had, so that was no good. I ended up finding just some thick wire, but that didnt work too good. I first removed the molding, just butchered it pretty much. There was no way I was going to mess with that 18 year old molding and expect it to come out in one peice. After removing all the interior and molding I then took a razor blade to remove as much of the adhesive as possible.
Then I took my trusty propane tourch and heated up the metal from the inside, only because I didnt want the glass to get hot. Its like 40-50 degrees here and raining, so it probably would not be good to have a rapidly heating glass on a cold day .
After that i took the wire and worked it around. That worked alot until it kinda just stopped. I found out there is 1 bolt and 3 plastic clips holding it in as well. After getting a hack saw blade I cut around the remainder of the window and just cut the plastic clips off. Its not worth breaking the glass to try to save the .25 plastic.
The hardest part was the corners and the side by the door. For then i just scraped away a little, got some slivers of wood and kinda hammered the wood in there. Just hammered them in enough to put stress on the glass. After that i heated up the metal from the inside and POP out came the window. Of course i had duct tape holding it on so it didnt fall.

Im confident now tomorrow ill have the other window out in less than a hr:thumbsup

 

about 2hrs of continuous work, a box of band-aids, and some domino's pizza and I got the passenger window out:1bowdown . unbroken none the less. I did find a TINY chip in the side but the molding hids that so no biggy. Now that I know how to remove it the drivers side will be alot easier.

Just for others here is how I did mine...
First I entered this totally blind, never in my life removing a peice of glass from a car. I pretty much expected it to shatter but it didnt.

I accidently threw away the old welding wire i had, so that was no good. I ended up finding just some thick wire, but that didnt work too good. I first removed the molding, just butchered it pretty much. There was no way I was going to mess with that 18 year old molding and expect it to come out in one peice. After removing all the interior and molding I then took a razor blade to remove as much of the adhesive as possible.
Then I took my trusty propane tourch and heated up the metal from the inside, only because I didnt want the glass to get hot. Its like 40-50 degrees here and raining, so it probably would not be good to have a rapidly heating glass on a cold day .
After that i took the wire and worked it around. That worked alot until it kinda just stopped. I found out there is 1 bolt and 3 plastic clips holding it in as well. After getting a hack saw blade I cut around the remainder of the window and just cut the plastic clips off. Its not worth breaking the glass to try to save the .25 plastic.
The hardest part was the corners and the side by the door. For then i just scraped away a little, got some slivers of wood and kinda hammered the wood in there. Just hammered them in enough to put stress on the glass. After that i heated up the metal from the inside and POP out came the window. Of course i had duct tape holding it on so it didnt fall.

Im confident now tomorrow ill have the other window out in less than a hr:thumbsup

i don't mean to rain on your parade, but if you took the molding off the back glass... its now useless.

I would not recommend this as a method of removing your windows for future browsers.

 

Good luck on the molding. You won't be able to get that from the dealer without glass in it. It's sold as 1 complete pressfit unit. Probably cost about 700 bucks.

 

time to upgrade to 180sx quarter

 

Hey SwappedCX, can you clean out your PM box, I have been trying to PM you about the interior panels.

Thanks!