Fitting (I)
Put the seal on the screen first. Put a little soap-water in the groove. Insert a rope into the groove. Then get someone to push the screen onto the car. The rope has to hang inside the car. Then pull the rope and it should slide the seal onto the body.
Fitting (II)
I've just fitted the front and rear windows. Here's roughly how to fit them:
Put the seal round the window and lube the outside of the rubber (I used washing up liquid)
Find some pretty thin (But STRONG) string and thread it round the outside of the seal, in the groove, making the two ends meet up just past the split at the bottom of the seal
Fit the window as best you can in the frame at the bottom making sure the pieces of string are INSIDE the car
Get an assistant to push on the window and to keep it pushed down in the seal
While the assistant is pushing the window in, start to pull the string towards you. *HOPEFULLY* as you pull the string the lip of the seal should pulled over the ledge and start to settle in to position. BE CAREFUL! Especially round the top corners
Stop every now and then and try and push the window back down into the seal (it is virtually guaranteed that the window will try and make a bid for freedom)
When you get about halfway round use the other end of the string and do the same, pulling it round (with the assistant pushing the window in) to the top
Your window should now be in. Before you put the finishing strip in make sure the window is sitting square in the rubbers.
FINISHING STRIP
This is a bitch aswell.
Lube the groove up
Starting at the top and using controlled outbursts of rage and something like a screwdriver go round pushing the strip in
The diagram below shows best how to get the strip in
without it twisting.
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push push push
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That's how I did it. It still isn't easy