Windscreen trim installation

[Triple-S]

After respray need to fit aluminium trims (car came without them!) round screens front and back. A local trim-guy said one needs a "special tool" but didn't have one so the question - is there one, or can it easily be done without it? Don't want to kink those delicate trims, and haven't checked to see if I even have any yet!
MTIA

Paul

[Triple-S]

Forgot to say - for a '68 Volvo 145.

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[mocambique-amazone]

Hello Paul, no special tool required. Only a cord, a rope.
But tis is really pita!!
First windscreen with rubber into the carm then the crome.

Good luck for you, you have the crome trim. I'm missing mine from the 1968. Maybe it went into the bin while moving from one storage to the next, how knows.

good luck, and do it with a guy who did this. You will sleep really bad if you try it by your own. I hate this job.

regards, Kay

[classicswede]

No Need for the cord. The trim is held in with some plastic clips. Still available from Volvo

[mocambique-amazone]

Maybe I'm wrong. The version Paul asked obout is the early one, glass fittet with rubber to the body and the trim into a small gap into the rubber. The plastic parts you wrote about are from 1969 (?) and younger. This is glued in with butyl, a real mess.
On the rubber version the crome trim is tricky to fix, not as easy like in the Amazon, or like a Mini!

Good night, I'm in the minus of hours in bed this week.
Regards, Kay

[Triple-S]

Correct Kay - the rubber holding the glass into the car is fine but I need to fit the shiny aluminium inserts into the slot in the rubber. Not sure if rope the best solution for this bit - have used rope fitting the rubber plus glass element to a car before but not the trim.
Since writing the request I've found a damaged and glassless early 240 tailgate with the alloy trim still in the rubber. Years ago I swapped a 240 tailgate for the rusty one on my 145 then so know at least the frame is the same - hope to check that alloy in the next few days. Also think the windscreen surround from a scrap 164 will fit the 145, but its the best way to fit both without damage that made me ask.

Paul

[chris s]

Hello Paul,

Having replaced a number of those screens in the past, I've always assembled the complete screen/rubber/trim then fitted it to the shell.
I've found that the trims are best fitted with the screen and rubber lying on a bench using a rounded off screwdriver to insert them. A word of warning however, the trims are fragile and if they are at all tweaked from previous removal they will be nigh on impossible to fit flush to the rubber.( I asked a well known Volvo specialist about this years ago and was advised to buy new ones, themselves having experienced the problems when the trims were slightly buckled).
It's no wonder you see early cars fitted with the later bonded 'screen!

Best of luck with it, and I can't wait to see photos of the 145 (my favourite Volvo especially with the early grille and pop out rear windows) .

Chris

[eternal optimist]

This thread brings back memories - I had exactly the same problem getting the trims sitting nicely on my '68 145S.

[Triple-S]

Sorry for reconstituting an old thread.... blame it on the body-shop guy who has been ill (a one-man band) so the queue for his services is all behind. Still, he has fitted the new floor and done other bits of welding, so not long now I hope.
re rear window trim fitment to 145, said guy again says there is a special tool (but he doesn't have one!). Noted suggestion of removing glass and assembling glass/rubber/trim as one on the bench, but there seems to be a clash of techniques used to fit as one - with or without cord: has anybody other techniques or experience as I don't want to ruin that trim?
As the windscreen does leak at one corner should I get a windscreen-replacement company to do both jobs at the same time to be safe? Maybe a two-stage fix: take both windows out before paint job then when paint cured get window-fitter in to replace both. That may not be possible though - depends on timing and space in bodyshop (and cost!).
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[WPR678B]

For the rear screen you fit the trim to the rubber before you put the complete assembly into the tailgate.
That's how I did mine anyway, after finding out you can't fit it after the screen and rubber is in the car!
Not sure on the front one though as mine is a bonded screen even though its an early model.