Replacing Alpine Window seals

ls this a DIY job. Any specific tools needed?

Yes, cos I did it. Cord around the outside to pull the lip in from inside.
Suitable blunt flat blade screwdrivers or something similar with soapy water to get the filler strip in.

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Those filler stiptools are a god send putting glass in!!! They are only cheap but worth every penny

I did not have the official tool to put my filler strip in so I had a rumage in my wifes draws: then looked in the kitchen and found this the loop on the end worked a treat getting the filler strip in. With soapy water.
I fitted the main seal to the body and the glass just slipped in the seal very easy by hand and easing rubber up with a screw driver at the final bend, then sprayed soapy water in the filler strip groove and put the strip in with the end of my wifes zester.
Scariest part is handling the glass and trying not to drop it.

Alpine window seal replacement

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   Tim4x4Well-Known Member
   I decided to change the rubber seal on the alpine windows 110 CSW. The rubber was perished on both and the offside was letting in a little water. I purchased new genuine Land Rover seals because looking at other threads there are some spurious seals available they either do not last long or the fit is so poor they leak from day one.
   Removing the windows was easy with the rubber seal coming out in parts because it was breaking up, after cleaning the aperture in the roof fitting the new seal and glass was simplicity its self but fitting the new infill rubber was almost impossible. Using washing up liquid as the lubricant the rubber would not go in. I looked on the internet to see what the correct tool for the job looked like, Yes I could make one like that but the materials I had available would not have been strong enough, thinking cap on what could I use? I know a spoon the dished shape of the spoon in stainless steel would give it the strength drill a hole in the spoon and file it to shape. This would allow the infill rubber to pass through the spoon whilst being pushed in to the window seal aperture with my thumb. Now to find a suitable size spoon that SWMBO will not miss, the cutlery draw has many different sized spoons for me to choose from. Narrowing my search down I then spotted it, WOW, WOW and WOW again that is just what I need not a spoon at all but a potato peeler. I set to work fitting the infill rubber with my new found multitool a potato peeler/rubber insert tool. How long to fit the infill rubber about 10 minutes a result. Take a look at the attached pics if you have on in your cutlery draw you may want to move it to your tool box.
   
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First one should take you around an hour if you've never done it before. Second one takes about 10 minutes.
Make a tool out of a stainless bicycle wheel spoke or thin welding rod.
Tyre soap everywhere if you can get it and they will pretty much put themselves in.

Fairy washing liquid workers a treat

I did mi windows by hand. No tools at all. Just took me a while to work em in.