This was the NAUGHTY CORNER

You're speaking too soon George... I've still got to do an emergency stop and watch the glass fly out and decapitate a cyclist yet. I'll get pics.

No, the 6 uses a different seal completely as the screen is larger than the hole in the body shell and uses a “Z” profile seal.

If it leaks now, then I’ll enjoy saying “told you so”..

You're worrying me now Phil!
Looking at that pic up there... Of the excess... In your experience would you have attempted to fight that in? Genuine question, I'm keen to know.

If it now shrinks down and leaks I'll have to do the whole lot again but I honestly don't know how I, or they, would be able to get that in. They cut it with a good 1-2" overlap in the end.

The car came to me with a chunky 1"+ hole in the rubber on the drivers pillar, so I have to assume that was the result of settling a d shrinkage. In which case we're good.

You're making me overthink. Getting clammy. Brain is spinning. Sweating and clenching.

*Rocks back and forth in corner*

Dribbling

Of rubber...

It's not getting any better, is it?

Anyway, I suspect Phil is thoroughly enjoying remaining silent now he's thrown me a doubt grenade (nothing at all to do with him possibly being busy), but I feel confident it was too long and here's why... The fill strip, which is rigid and plastic, was also way too long, and there's no way at all you could crush that down by a foot to make it fit, yet the supplier also told me that was the correct length too.

So I'm going to cast doubt aside and enjoy my new rubber.

Until it rains, probably.

In answer to your earlier question, yes - I did fight the whole thing in on my own. That’s why I don’t fancy doing another one!

Well no, not really. I can entertain the idea that an extra foot of rubber - after totally ramming it hard into the frame - might be forced to compress and accommodate that much extra in a fixed, rigid, non-flexible aperture. But the bead is absolutely not going to compress, and was also about a foot too long. So the closed version of that piece would be a considerable Xcm greater in circumference than the window aperture. It would need to be running around the outside far edge of the entire coverage area to work.

The thing is... I'm willing to be humble and admit it if it transpires that this thing leaks like crazy and I end up with a 12" hole along the bottom of my windscreen. But as the two blokes who did it said... They've been doing classic cars for 20+ years. There is nothing fundamentally special or different about this rubber on this car to many others, and none of the others they've ever done have required them to force a foot of extra rubber in.

I'm really not sticking my neck out and challenging your far greater experience and knowledge, and if this rubber swap smacks me on the I will have no qualms at all about declaring it in the interests of others doing a rubber swap in the future.

I will however, be utterly amazed, and would love to see the full thing being fitted without trimming it down.

If it has to be done again it's no great financial hardship, but I will be doing it myself next time and will be making extensive posts as my world gradually falls apart around me!

Smacked in the fox picture with a foot of rubber

*sniggers*

Goes off to hide in shame. Offers picktcher of awesome Scimmi by way of atonement