Re: Help with old Vectra
- From: "Mike Faithfull" <mouse_potato@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:10:00 +0100
"Duncan Wood" <nntpnews@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:op.ur1bjpjfhaghkf@xxxxxxx
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:00:20 +0100, Mike Faithfull
<mouse_potato@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My daughter's old Mundano comprehensively failed its MOT last week so
Daddy
was suckered into buying her an old banger to "get by" for a short
while, so
when I stumbled over a Vectra on a 'P' plate that drove very well but
had a
few cosmetic 'issues' it seemed to fit the bill.
One problemette that spoils an otherwise quite clean vehicle is the trim
on
each side of the windscreen. The top end of the strip (on both sides of
the
vehicle) is bulging and distorted with rusty metal showing underneath.
I'm
unclear whether there is a body seam here which is covered by the plastic
strip, or whether the metal is part of the trim.
Essentially, I'm looking for advice on how to deal with this at minimal
cost
because the car will probably be sent to the scrapper's at the end of the
year anyway. Looking for help from Mr Haynes in his fine book on the
subject, all I can find on replacing the windscreen (which I presumed
would
explain how to remove and replace the trim) is that replacing a
windscreen
is a specialist job beyond the capability of a DIY-er.
Two pictures to illustrate what I'm trying to describe maye be found here
http://tinyurl.com/clcl9u and here http://tinyurl.com/co3mmm.
Any help and advice gratefully received.
If you start you'll never stop.
Undoubtedly sound advice Duncan, thank you! But I promised her I would ask
the experts on the Interweb and try to make it look pretty again.
.
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