Split windscreen seal

Hi,

My 1999 FL has a horizontal split several inches long on the lower part of the outer windscreen seal and when it rains the passenger floor is getting wet, I guess I need to buy a new seal from l/rover and then get a windscreen company to put me new screen in (screen does have a few small marks on it) anyone ever tried to remove and replace a screen before and is there anything special about early FL screens and fitting methods, do most jobs myself but never changed a screen before, don't think insurance will pay for this due to split seal, anyone know any different?

Thanks.

**** it wiv anammer, call yer insurance Co.
Simples.

I'm afraid, dishonest as it is, trewy is right on this. by the time you've paid for the seal, then the fitters time, it is cheaper to smash it and claim on the insurance. Just make sure where you claim it was done doesn't have CCTV. Maybe use a brick which fell of a skip lorry on the approach to the M11, you were so shocked by the impact and noise that you didn't think to take details of the lorry...

The screen is bonded in using an adhesive similar to mastic, but very much stronger. It is the devils own job to cut it out, then you have to remove any trace before fitting new.

Not that optimus prime in any way condones or endorses insurance fraud.

aye what they says, i got a new screen fitted and the bloke who done it cracked the first new one, and had to go back to his work and come back with a new one.
**** nose what expence would have came to if it wasnt a insurance jab

you sure the water is coming in from the screen?
the "seal" is just trim, the actual seal is formed by the bonding of the glass to the aperture.

My trade is an auto motive glass fitter. The plastic trim which is visable
on the outside of the screen is a u section strip which is fitted to the
screen prior to it been installed and is decrative only.The screen is held in
the car with a product called poly urethane. A leak would only occur if
1 Rust under the poly urethane
2 has had a screen fitted before and a slight gap in the poly urethane
3 not correctly primed before been fitted
To remove the screen requires specialist tools to avoid breakage.
Hope this helps