need help making onepiece windows work

[nicolas]

i know a lot of people will say they are rubbish but i want them so bad i have to try it.

but i can't get them rolling up and down in the guides properly. so can someone show me the way to do this

pictures can help.

it's a type 3 so if anyone has done it on one of those and has pictures that would be even better.

thanks

[quickkafer]

I can't help you with a type 3, but I've got them in my bug.  I really hate them.  They do look pretty cool, but they are a bear to set up.  The previous owner hacked up my car pretty well to install these windows so I didn't have the ability to undo his work.  There was no way to retro fit the vent windows back in.

I can tell you this...  The snap in window scraper seals are the best ones for the job as they snap in the factory square holes in the door.  The leading edge (where the vent windows used to be) need to be glued into place as there are no holes to snap into up there.

Make sure your regulators are up to the task.  Take them out, degrease them, clean all the gook out of them, and then relube them.  After that it's just hours of lining up and playing with adjustments to get them right.

Have fun! 

Scott Faivre

[Fastbrit]

In a Type 3, you need to change the regulators for late-'60s Bug ones, which means cutting some of the inner door skin away. The original Type 3 ones don't work with one-piece glass. I went through all this 20 years ago with my Fastback and I can still remember the hassle!

[nicolas]

yep the originals wont work
so i guess i have to work my way through it with trial and error...  sniff
but any photos or help will be greatly appreciated. thanks again

and i agree to all people saying they suck and are not practical and so on. BUT THEY ARE SO DAMN GOOD LOOKING 

[nicolas]

well it's been taking me a while but i almost got all the bugs out of the car and have the windows installed as good as i can.

now can say to everyone else how much a pain in the a** they are, but with buckets of patience it can be done.
i need everything to be bolted tight now and have everything checked for the thousand time, but it looks promising to me.
the only thing that really concerns me right now is water. rain... the rubbers don't seal of everything so there is always a couple of drips getting in no matter what. but i am worried about the interiour, the cardbord on the inside will get wet en suck up water and get ruined. so maybe a plastic cover will do or is there something else that can make it waterfree???

again thanks for helping

regards

nicolas

[gingabloke]

Later (watercooled) VWs have a plastic sheet behind the door panel. The window rubbers aren't a perfect seal (and often shrink with age)  so the water is allowed to run down inside the door and out through drain holes at the bottom. If you have any speakers etc mounted on the doors you may need to shield those as well.