NiallRussell
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I know some people might be in a simular positon to me - winter coming and thinking about a heated scree. Just did mine and it went surprisingly well.
1) cut out the old screen. I did this with a sharpe knife along the little inwards ridge on the seal, do the screen can 'pop' out. You need to do almost the whole way round the screen for it to come out.
2) fit the new seal to the screen. Make sure you see which way round it goes - don't spend ages getting it on and then find out you've wasted your time like I did.
3) There are three 'groves' on the seal. One for the glass, one in between that you leave empty (it has a small flap that folds down when the screen is pressed into the frame) and one to fit around the frame lip. Once the glass is in, put some cord through the frame groove. Wet the cord (4mm-5mm), it will slip in/out much easier.
4) Grease the frame and seal with washing up liquid (or something) very liberally. Now get to work. Offer up the screen to the frame and try to get the bottom edge / corners pushed into the frame as far as possible. Now offer up the rest as far as it will go.
5) with someone else providing pressure from the outside, pull the cord out of the seal from the inside and the seal will lift over the frame. Go all the way round. I put my cord in and left two 'handles' out at either end so I could do a bit one side and then the other, so I wasn't pulling the screen out one side.
6) Now you will probably have to 'tap' the screen home. Hopefully this will only need to be done on the sides and top, not the bottom (as the lip under the screen makes it hard to see / 'tap' the seal without damaging things). I used a rubber hammer and a piece of wood and took my time. In the end I was 'tapping' with some force and eventually got the screen home all the way round.
Took me 2 hours - I'm not a fast worker.
Oh and I bought a genuine seal from landrover on advice from others and when the screen came with it's cheap seal I was glad I did, the LR seal has real flex and I'm pleased I spent the money.
1) cut out the old screen. I did this with a sharpe knife along the little inwards ridge on the seal, do the screen can 'pop' out. You need to do almost the whole way round the screen for it to come out.
2) fit the new seal to the screen. Make sure you see which way round it goes - don't spend ages getting it on and then find out you've wasted your time like I did.
3) There are three 'groves' on the seal. One for the glass, one in between that you leave empty (it has a small flap that folds down when the screen is pressed into the frame) and one to fit around the frame lip. Once the glass is in, put some cord through the frame groove. Wet the cord (4mm-5mm), it will slip in/out much easier.
4) Grease the frame and seal with washing up liquid (or something) very liberally. Now get to work. Offer up the screen to the frame and try to get the bottom edge / corners pushed into the frame as far as possible. Now offer up the rest as far as it will go.
5) with someone else providing pressure from the outside, pull the cord out of the seal from the inside and the seal will lift over the frame. Go all the way round. I put my cord in and left two 'handles' out at either end so I could do a bit one side and then the other, so I wasn't pulling the screen out one side.
6) Now you will probably have to 'tap' the screen home. Hopefully this will only need to be done on the sides and top, not the bottom (as the lip under the screen makes it hard to see / 'tap' the seal without damaging things). I used a rubber hammer and a piece of wood and took my time. In the end I was 'tapping' with some force and eventually got the screen home all the way round.
Took me 2 hours - I'm not a fast worker.
Oh and I bought a genuine seal from landrover on advice from others and when the screen came with it's cheap seal I was glad I did, the LR seal has real flex and I'm pleased I spent the money.
