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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: 88dx on September 07, 2009, 11:32:50 PM
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Is their any way possible to remove the windsheild in a car without breaking it? Im a cheap ass and dont want to buy a new one but is it possible to remove on from a car in the junkyard?
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junk yard hear sells used windsheilds for 60
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their 21.50 here so it would save me $120 if i could do it.
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It is possible, but not easy. You have to be pretty fucking strong to cut one out. And you'll need the tool/tools to do it. They make a sawzall attachment for doing it, but you're more likely to break the windshield using it unless you're experienced operating that tool.
Personally it's a BITCH and if you fuck up at the end you just wasted all your time/money. Plus it's hard to seal them in well without experience and without the right adhesive/sealer shit. I'd shop around and find a place that can do a windshield on the cheap. If you were local I'd send you to my uncles and he'd hook you up.
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piano wire and heat gun
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It is possible, but not easy. You have to be pretty fucking strong to cut one out. And you'll need the tool/tools to do it. They make a sawzall attachment for doing it, but you're more likely to break the windshield using it unless you're experienced operating that tool.
Personally it's a BITCH and if you fuck up at the end you just wasted all your time/money. Plus it's hard to seal them in well without experience and without the right adhesive/sealer shit. I'd shop around and find a place that can do a windshield on the cheap. If you were local I'd send you to my uncles and he'd hook you up.
I called all around and their $200+ installed >:(
piano wire and heat gun
Can i use some wire from your piano ???
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go to a music store dude... it's like a dollar.
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go to a music store dude... it's like a dollar.
Its free if i can steal it from your piano. Only thing that sucks is i wont be able to use a heat gun at the junk yard :-\
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piano wire and heat gun
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I recommend practicing on the broken windshield first. Ive done it before and it wasnt bad but not fun either way.
The heatgun just makes it a lil easier to cut through the urethane.
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guitar string works great too just make sure you use the heat gun or heat lamp or w/e
or park the car in the sun with the windows up for a long ass time
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it sucks ive done it, but the junkyards do it so they must have a fast way. i dont know if it was just the car we did but any kind of wire was pretty much worthless. even when we heated it/the wire too
then you need to buy that spendy window weld and gasket or it will probly leak, even if you do it might still leak if you dont get the old window out clean
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god dam that is a shitty job, you will probably break a couple before you get one out. Well worth the 200.00 for a new one!
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high test strength fishing line and leather gloves. use it like a saw. if you have some saw like wire, that would be better. floss works too. with floss you have to saw more then can "cut"
- used to work at junkyard.
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god dam that is a shitty job, you will probably break a couple before you get one out. Well worth the 200.00 for a new one!
u know my paypal send away :P But yeah it pretty much sounds like a waste of time since i know ill get pissed off and break it :-\ I should call the track and see if i can race without a windsheild :noel:
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im sure you were kidding about racing without a windshield (but if you werent no track allows no windshield)
i use the steel wire from e-brake cables, poke a small hole through the window weld, feed in wire, wrap around a screwdriver on both ends, hit the steel wire with a torch for about 4 seconds and start sawing, it will already be hot from the torch so it takes away the hectic start. anyone whos done it knows about the pain in the ass it is to get it hot.
or you could go buy the heated window tool for 300 bucks. but that would ruin the cost effectiveness :)
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id really like to see anyone remove the front window we did out of some bonneville with fucking floss. we got window removal wire from the parts store and it worked like shit, it looked like brass or some gold color braided wire, we ended up kicking it out from the inside, which was also a bad idea.
i pretty much hate paying anyone to do anything to anyone in my immeidate familys cars and id probly pay someone before id do another windshield. i dont know maybe its easier in a civic or somthing. good luck
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also, you can rent a window suction cup from sunbelt rentals or whatever the fuck for like 5$ to pull that bitch out, makes it easy as fuck.
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tried taking one out once, thought oh lets slip the wire in and have another guy put his feet against the glass to help push it out. well about an hour later when we almost have the bead cut all the way around we hear a ripping/zipping sound and the fuckin glass just zips a crack all the way accross on the bottom. great, from now on i just let a company do it.
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http://www.safelite.com/ (http://www.safelite.com/)
i had a baseball shatter my front windshield at 1900. called safelite, they were out at 1000 next morning, fixed it on the side of the road by the apartment. took the guy 35 minutes. 180 bucks. well worth it.
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I used to rock one of these...
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It will cut out a windshield in about 7 minutes flat
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wd-40 and a lighter softens the glue but if you put too much heat into the glass you fuck up the lamination or break it.
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I have seen a hack that turns the heated wire in a toaster into an element to cut the windshield. It was ghetto as fuck , but worked.
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I have seen a hack that turns the heated wire in a toaster into an element to cut the windshield. It was ghetto as fuck , but worked.
I have seen a piano wire, hooded to the two ends of a soldering gun. Same thing ghetto as fuck, but worked well.
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it sucks ive done it, but the junkyards do it so they must have a fast way.
When you pay your employees $7/hour why worry if the job takes two hours?
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FWIW, call around and get prices. Some shops will be cheaper than others. Like at my uncles shop he hates working on some cars in the past that were a bitch, so they give a high quote on those cars. But on some he might have done a 100 of and they're easy, and he does them cheaper than average knowing he can do the job in 20 minutes.
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it sucks ive done it, but the junkyards do it so they must have a fast way.
When you pay your employees $7/hour why worry if the job takes two hours?
JD ill pay u $7/hour to cut a windsheild out for me :mexi:
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Ill do it for 8 but it will cracked when Im done.
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I always watch the :mexi: in the junk yards do it by cutting the hood latch cable out and then using it to cut the windshield out. They also were thick leather gloves.
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I always watch the :mexi: in the junk yards do it by cutting the hood latch cable out and then using it to cut the windshield out. They also were thick leather gloves.
Mabey ill stop and eat at the taco truck before i go to the junkyard and try this :mexi:
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7808, ill show you how to use floss to cut epoxy.
only because im responsible to raise you right since im your real dad.
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How many kids do you have anyway, Colton?
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Since you can't plug into a wall outlet, bring a charged car battery and short the wire just long enough to get it hot for cutting. Use a decent length of wire and don't leave it on for too long or the battery may explode and you'll look like this:
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How many kids do you have anyway, Colton?
its a lot he did live in Tacompton for many years :?:
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free glass coverage on my insurance FTW...I've had 2 windshields in the last year due to living on gravel and not slowing down...haven't paid a dime for either of them. :)
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free glass coverage on my insurance FTW...I've had 2 windshields in the last year due to living on gravel and not slowing down...haven't paid a dime for either of them. :)
fuck paying for insurance :mexi:
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fuck what you should do is go find a dump truck driving around and look to see if its carrying gravel and take a picture of it, write down the plate and shit and call up the company and tell them you want a new windsheild.
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free......... my insurance...
I can assure you that you paid for it.
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fuck what you should do is go find a dump truck driving around and look to see if its carrying gravel and take a picture of it, write down the plate and shit and call up the company and tell them you want a new windsheild.
Yeah thats super cool douche bag of the century
Also I would love to see you walk into a gravel company and ask for 200 dollars. A 55 year old bitter owner will gladly hand your ass to you
Do you do anything on this site besides be fuckin gay? I had a long day and my ban button finger is itchy.
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fuck what you should do is go find a dump truck driving around and look to see if its carrying gravel and take a picture of it, write down the plate and shit and call up the company and tell them you want a new windsheild.
Yeah thats super cool douche bag of the century
Also I would love to see you walk into a gravel company and ask for 200 dollars. A 55 year old bitter owner will gladly hand your ass to you
Do you do anything on this site besides be fuckin gay? I had a long day and my ban button finger is itchy.
go ahead and snipe nos10racer while you're at it sir
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fuck what you should do is go find a dump truck driving around and look to see if its carrying gravel and take a picture of it, write down the plate and shit and call up the company and tell them you want a new windsheild.
Yeah thats super cool douche bag of the century
Also I would love to see you walk into a gravel company and ask for 200 dollars. A 55 year old bitter owner will gladly hand your ass to you
Do you do anything on this site besides be fuckin gay? I had a long day and my ban button finger is itchy.
go ahead and snipe nos10racer while you're at it sir
do it illl buy you a beer at the 2013 dyno day
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fuck what you should do is go find a dump truck driving around and look to see if its carrying gravel and take a picture of it, write down the plate and shit and call up the company and tell them you want a new windsheild.
Yeah thats super cool douche bag of the century
Also I would love to see you walk into a gravel company and ask for 200 dollars. A 55 year old bitter owner will gladly hand your ass to you
Do you do anything on this site besides be fuckin gay? I had a long day and my ban button finger is itchy.
go ahead and snipe nos10racer while you're at it sir
That dude needs it. Make it a temp ban to be fair, 3-5 days or something.
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fuck what you should do is go find a dump truck driving around and look to see if its carrying gravel and take a picture of it, write down the plate and shit and call up the company and tell them you want a new windsheild.
Yeah thats super cool douche bag of the century
Also I would love to see you walk into a gravel company and ask for 200 dollars. A 55 year old bitter owner will gladly hand your ass to you
Do you do anything on this site besides be fuckin gay? I had a long day and my ban button finger is itchy.
go ahead and snipe nos10racer while you're at it sir
That dude needs it. Make it a temp ban to be fair, 3-5 days or something.
I don't think he needs a ban, Chris laid the smack down correctly and with elegant finesse.
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meridian auto wrecking charges $60 for a used windshield and they have safelite ( I believe ) come out and pull them
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meridian auto
They are a bunch of fucking jews there. They want an arm and a leg for shit there. But they have a lot of cars, and a lot of new cars at that.
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I removed a windshield once with my father on a Ford tempo. With a wire and we had both no experience removing windshield. ( I was like 14, sure I had no experience in anything )
If I had to do it now, I'd take a piece of wood to each side of the steel wire.
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The law here says you dont need a windshield. If it rains and ruins your dash, just spray paint it blue. Nobody will notice. :?:
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Interestingly enough, the law is the same here. You can drive around with no windshield provided you are wearing eye protection. The blue dash is highly water repellent and can get you through the MVD (that's DMV everywhere else) and state inspection faster too.
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The law here says you dont need a windshield. If it rains and ruins your dash, just spray paint it blue. Nobody will notice. :?:
lol
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piano wire and heat gun