Henry_b said:

I went to collect some RV8 cylinder head from a local chap We shook hands and said our laterz dude bit and I returned to the car, pulled the handle and only then did it sink in the gravity of the situation I had just put myself into I had inadvertently hit the lock when getting out
The car was locked! Running, phone in there all cozy and warm and locked... with me outside.

Holy crap!

By now the geezer had run back to whatever flat he had come from and I was alone...
Ill phone the missis I thought as I stared at my phone on the passenger seat...
Funnily enough, only today was I discussing the extortionate cost of rear quarter windows and I thought of that as I laid the boot in to the nsr window. It's very strong and resisted my frustrating attempts. I NEED A BRICK! Yeah, old skool stuff, lob a brick at it! I couldn't do it, not to my beloved Rangie and I couldn't find a brick anyway. I needed another plan and to calm the hell down. All this wanton destruction All I needed was a set of specialist tools. lolz.
I decided to go and have a local search of the area for appropriate materials to fashion into tools. It was a weird feeling jogging away from your own car, with your life on display and running, but hey, if it got broken into, they would actually be doing me a favour.

Would you believe that under 5 minutes I had found a bundle of plastic coated metal lengths discarded in a park, approx 1 meter long, just shy really. I went back to the car, forced the top on the passenger door frame but really it was consuming all my strength and no way would I get a bit of this metal in there, let alone **** about with it trying to hit the lock release. I needed a wedge.
Where do you get a wedge from I hear you ask? Well everyone knows that there is always foam pipe lagging discarded in the front storage of a dumped caravan. Tore me a bit of that off and ran back to the car. Forcing the frame out in the rain whist trying not to damage the paint and cause any dents from knees is near on impossible, but we got the foam in there a bit. Looking through the gap, I had made a 3mm gap through the rubbers, certainly enough to ram a 10mm piece of powder coated metal into. Depends how desperate you are really.

I got the metal in and saw it emerge on the inside- much excitement, and I was near on having a hyper when it latched onto the internal catch, but would that thing move? No. the metal kept slipping off in the most dumb, frustrating way possible. As Edd China once said "I need more purchase", and using all my ramming skillz and the power of Greyskull, managed to open the frame another 0.5 mm. Several thousand attempts at 'flicking' the release later and in the dim light it looked as though it had gone, I paused...
I couldn't believe my eyes, it had actually worked, the door was unlocked!
My rod controlling hand (ooer) is shredded to bits with skin falling off and ****. I got home and put a light over the areas. We are very lucky, the plastic coating saved any damage to the paint, I bent the frame slightly so that it lined up again, it really wasn't too bad at all. Some grazing on the rubber is the worst of it and loads of debris stuck to the wet car from that lagging breaking up.


The most impressive thing is that whilst I was doing all this, not one person, not one even batted an eyelid at me!


What a day!

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RangeRoller dt said:

like brake lines you mean?

So the wipers, scuttle and trims have been taken off. If I’ve come this far, for the money I reckon only way get her back on the road relatively quickly is to do windshield Me self? There’s many different options relating to vin number so in my head that means the cheapest one fits whatever vin it’s for all same shape Shirley? the bond is only about £15 and all the trim and fixings are intact even after 26 years...no point in wasting them ...
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RangeRoller dt said:

like brake lines you mean?

So the wipers, scuttle and trims have been taken off. If I’ve come this far, for the money I reckon only way get her back on the road relatively quickly is to do windshield Me self? There’s many different options relating to vin number so in my head that means the cheapest one fits whatever vin it’s for all same shape Shirley? the bond is only about £15 and all the trim and fixings are intact even after 26 years...no point in wasting them ...
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kermit_rr said:

Grand job.

Didn't overheat then or run out of petrol

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RangeRoller dt said:

like brake lines you mean?

So the wipers, scuttle and trims have been taken off. If I’ve come this far, for the money I reckon only way get her back on the road relatively quickly is to do windshield Me self? There’s many different options relating to vin number so in my head that means the cheapest one fits whatever vin it’s for all same shape Shirley? the bond is only about £15 and all the trim and fixings are intact even after 26 years...no point in wasting them ...
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RangeRoller dt said:

Gauze filter I’ve dusted out what was left of the foam, never missed having one so far. Never had whistling at speed or anything? Must of disintegrated long before I had the vehicle.

Can’t see windshield being as difficult as fitting the rear windows on a fender, trick is Brian get a good cord (I used the pull cord off the chainsaw) and lube it up with thick soapy water. Baling cord does not work well and slices your seals

Are we agreed any P38 windscreen will fit??

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RangeRoller dt said:

If you hadn’t of said I wouldn’t of even thought about it lol

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Enthusiastman said:

I understand what your saying mate BUT they were put there for a reason. For what one costs and the fact you have it all out you might as well fit a new one buddy as it keeps all the water and **** out of there. Up to you though buddy. Its your car.

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RangeRoller dt said:

Gauze filter I’ve dusted out what was left of the foam, never missed having one so far. Never had whistling at speed or anything? Must of disintegrated long before I had the vehicle.

Can’t see windshield being as difficult as fitting the rear windows on a fender, trick is Brian get a good cord (I used the pull cord off the chainsaw) and lube it up with thick soapy water. Baling cord does not work well and slices your seals

Are we agreed any P38 windscreen will fit??

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Grrrrrr said:

I thought the windscreen was bonded in so needed to be cut out? Don't they have a special tool?

Someone mentioned claiming on insurance. Can you get insurance without an MoT certificate?

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Henry_b said:

I went to collect some RV8 cylinder head from a local chap We shook hands and said our laterz dude bit and I returned to the car, pulled the handle and only then did it sink in the gravity of the situation I had just put myself into I had inadvertently hit the lock when getting out
The car was locked! Running, phone in there all cozy and warm and locked... with me outside.

Holy crap!

By now the geezer had run back to whatever flat he had come from and I was alone...
Ill phone the missis I thought as I stared at my phone on the passenger seat...
Funnily enough, only today was I discussing the extortionate cost of rear quarter windows and I thought of that as I laid the boot in to the nsr window. It's very strong and resisted my frustrating attempts. I NEED A BRICK! Yeah, old skool stuff, lob a brick at it! I couldn't do it, not to my beloved Rangie and I couldn't find a brick anyway. I needed another plan and to calm the hell down. All this wanton destruction All I needed was a set of specialist tools. lolz.
I decided to go and have a local search of the area for appropriate materials to fashion into tools. It was a weird feeling jogging away from your own car, with your life on display and running, but hey, if it got broken into, they would actually be doing me a favour.

Would you believe that under 5 minutes I had found a bundle of plastic coated metal lengths discarded in a park, approx 1 meter long, just shy really. I went back to the car, forced the top on the passenger door frame but really it was consuming all my strength and no way would I get a bit of this metal in there, let alone **** about with it trying to hit the lock release. I needed a wedge.
Where do you get a wedge from I hear you ask? Well everyone knows that there is always foam pipe lagging discarded in the front storage of a dumped caravan. Tore me a bit of that off and ran back to the car. Forcing the frame out in the rain whist trying not to damage the paint and cause any dents from knees is near on impossible, but we got the foam in there a bit. Looking through the gap, I had made a 3mm gap through the rubbers, certainly enough to ram a 10mm piece of powder coated metal into. Depends how desperate you are really.

I got the metal in and saw it emerge on the inside- much excitement, and I was near on having a hyper when it latched onto the internal catch, but would that thing move? No. the metal kept slipping off in the most dumb, frustrating way possible. As Edd China once said "I need more purchase", and using all my ramming skillz and the power of Greyskull, managed to open the frame another 0.5 mm. Several thousand attempts at 'flicking' the release later and in the dim light it looked as though it had gone, I paused...
I couldn't believe my eyes, it had actually worked, the door was unlocked!
My rod controlling hand (ooer) is shredded to bits with skin falling off and ****. I got home and put a light over the areas. We are very lucky, the plastic coating saved any damage to the paint, I bent the frame slightly so that it lined up again, it really wasn't too bad at all. Some grazing on the rubber is the worst of it and loads of debris stuck to the wet car from that lagging breaking up.


The most impressive thing is that whilst I was doing all this, not one person, not one even batted an eyelid at me!


What a day!

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myfirstl322 said:

Special tool handy...
https://www.toolstoday.co.uk/sealey...MI7MrDx5T58AIVDdN3Ch2-nAxEEAQYASABEgLyMPD_BwE

If you haven't got an Mot then how did you crack the screen....strimming round it's garden resting place?

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kermit_rr said:

Doesn't matter how it's damaged. But they might ask you to take your car to the centre doing the work

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myfirstl322 said:

They may, of course they wouldn't need vans at all then.

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kermit_rr said:

I was required to take mine, screen is too big and heavy for one person to manage apparently

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