Windshield, installation Options

[DavidSweden]

The windshield on my car needs replacing before I invest in a new one I have a question regarding installation.

The current windshield has a rubber seal around instead of the chrome trim. Can anyone tell me if the install procedure is the same as for the chrome trim and can I reuse the rubber?

The car is a 76 are the windshields the same for all models?

Thanks
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[wes]

After completing my car with virtually no experience to begin with I have found a lot of parts I assumed no longer available are actually available to includ windshields and trim at your local Porsche dealer. Well yes you may have to wait for shipping and likely more $$ but it's right! Now as for windshields I used the one form China and aluminum trim pieces from Auto Atlanta. Yes of corse the result was not good on eather, at 127 miles the car setting in the sun and when I came back I find a small crack in the windshield wich grew on the way home. Next trip first tiime I pushed the new engine a bit driving between 80 to 95 for a good stretch and when I got home looking at my beauty the trim has come off or loose at the top.
Thinking I did something wrong I talked to a friend who has a Porsche repair shop and he just laughs and says the trim is a very poor sloppy copy and I should know better than to buy Chinese junk glass also that Auto Atlanta probably bought the trim from China as well. Of course Auto Atlanta called it an exact copy made by the same manufacture as Porsche used. I now know better than to save a few dollars and end up doing the job twice, in the end paying more. My two cents says always check with Porsche, Volkswagen first, buy 914rubber and others on the 914world site.