replacing windows in a vt

[justcruzzinn]

hey guys
had someone break into my car last night and they smashed my drivers window
so just wonderin if it would be a easyish job to replace it if i got the pins n window from wreakers..
any help would be much appreciated

[mrVT]

your best help would be if u buy a gregories manual or ellerys workshop manual ull spend the best 50 buks and ull use it in heaps of situations!

[azzaVT]

Some little **** did a smash grab on mine recently, most fkn unimpressed.

You'll need some new window runner pucks, little nylon slider things, from Holden... about $4 each... up to four per window, if they're broken.

The Gregories manual is wrong about getting the front windows back in. You'll need someone else to hold the window near fully up while you inset the front runner back in the door, then line up the glass into the runner before bolting it. Get the back runner in the groove first.

It's a shit of a job and you have to be bloody forceful with the slider pucks and the rear runner. Wreckers should have glass from $45 upward.

If you're not the adventurous solo-man or broke type then you're better off paying a pro to fit it for ya.

[justcruzzinn]

got the slider pucks from holden today just gotta hunt down a cheap window from wreakers holden said 280 for one :O

cheers for the adivce guys

[Dave VT99]

$280....Bloody hell the wreckers sounds like the go how will you go with the tint on the window

[Lano]

I've replaced my drivers window once in similar situation as you due to a drunken idiot: Police now have his blood on file though!
Iit's simplish to do and like azzaVT said, the Gregories method isn't the only one. The manual said to drill out the pop-rivits holding the winder mechanism in; but I found that brute force and ignorance allowed me to bypass this point....

[azzaVT]

.... The manual said to drill out the pop-rivits holding the winder mechanism in; but I found that brute force and ignorance allowed me to bypass this point....

Ditto, I didn't drill the rivets either. Just slide the pucks into the end of the runner before you bolt the pivot point back in (two bolts, lower right, above the big hole). Fiddly, but do-able.