Well as some of you know im finnaly getting my car striped and ready for the paint shop and whilst doing this im just having question or two about the window rubbers. Has anyone taking them off /out.because. .the rear trim that gose around the rear window from the outside on the side and bottom all one pieace tome likes once when new looks like it was on a roll and was quite flexi nut twenty five years later has got hard.question is was is flexi when new and ifso is it easyly sorced. and finnally the front top winscreen seems to be in two bits and didnt someone say the bmw one fits, and if thats the case then do the front windowscreen need to be removed? please, thanks.

Front top trim is about £175, it can be saved, the two corner tabs are not expensive and about £10 a side. The lower trim is specific only as it's narrow gauge. You can still buy them. There's a chap on here selling one at the moment. These are generally £100. If yours is old and hard, it's likely it'll ruin when the glass is removed.

...as for the front screen. I have never heard of anything BMW fitting it and I am not entirely sure what component you're talking about. There are 6 components in the front screen, 3 x nylon runners, 2 x grey trim sections and 1 top seal.

on the rear glass the top dosnt need to be removed unless its needed to be out when and if glass needs to be taken out. cas the paint isnt going anywere near the middle of glass as for the one pieace side and bottom strip at the rear ill have a look for that thread if someones got one but can that come out without the rear screen being removed?

Oh I see, you're leaving the screen in, but wanting to remove the seals. Takes a bit of time to work out what you mean. ;)

 

You can press in the lower trim, but it fits very poorly if you do that, even with heat. When I had my car painted first I had that done. When I had it painted again, the only way to have it seated correctly was to pop the screen out. It just won't sit flush all the way round. The seal really does need to go in with the screen for it to seat correctly.

Jeff posted up recently about a BMW 5 series seal fitting the top of front screen.

Link to that here: http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?171266-windscreen-tech

yer the one peace top seal on the top front seems to be more than one peace, ive taken the sides off and got replacment ones of those with the black plastic stuff on, but again id hoped id ant got to take the screen out just wanted to take the sides off. they are, and take the top off so the paint went were its meant to go, but its looking like ive got to take the screen out.but also i belieave there is a trim for the front top that a bmw trim fits saving money.