Bonded windscreen - applying the mastic safelyasking off
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:13 pm
Help/advice needed please. I have read a lot of very helpful posts on the forum about fitting the screen and by following them have got to the stage of having the unbonded screen in place on the car (photo attached)
I have read the very good step by step guide by Innes but do not understand the bit about masking off the screen from measurements taken with the bare glass fitted as a trial - can anybody explain please ?
Attached also is drawing showing the screen positions Top, Bottom, & RHS as they are on the car. It looks to me as though the mastic should finish ast the inner edge of the plastic surround otherwise it will be visible from outside the car. Any comments ? + does anyone have a photo of a screen please showing where the mastic goes ?
Final point is that from my drawing it looks like at the sides of the screen sides you need to bond to the windscreen opening trim because trim and screen surround overlap - I seek advice on how to make a neat job of that.
Lot of questions , any help gratefully received.
Thanks,
Dick
I have read the very good step by step guide by Innes but do not understand the bit about masking off the screen from measurements taken with the bare glass fitted as a trial - can anybody explain please ?
Attached also is drawing showing the screen positions Top, Bottom, & RHS as they are on the car. It looks to me as though the mastic should finish ast the inner edge of the plastic surround otherwise it will be visible from outside the car. Any comments ? + does anyone have a photo of a screen please showing where the mastic goes ?
Final point is that from my drawing it looks like at the sides of the screen sides you need to bond to the windscreen opening trim because trim and screen surround overlap - I seek advice on how to make a neat job of that.
Lot of questions , any help gratefully received.
Thanks,
Dick