Vixen - door glass - advice and guidance
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Dear all,
The passenger side door glass in my Vixen is very badly scored (I guess at some stage it was catching on something in the lift mechanism).
I plan to buy some cerium oxide and see whether I can polish out some of the marks but I am not optimistic. Can anyone advise on where TVR sourced the glass? Any chance of securing a replacement?
On the same theme, does anyone know this car? How did the fellow get a full open window (no quarter light)? Is this a non moving plexiglass window or does it actually work? If so, how did he do it?
Thanks as ever.
Nigel
The passenger side door glass in my Vixen is very badly scored (I guess at some stage it was catching on something in the lift mechanism).
I plan to buy some cerium oxide and see whether I can polish out some of the marks but I am not optimistic. Can anyone advise on where TVR sourced the glass? Any chance of securing a replacement?
On the same theme, does anyone know this car? How did the fellow get a full open window (no quarter light)? Is this a non moving plexiglass window or does it actually work? If so, how did he do it?
Thanks as ever.
Nigel
Is this scoring vertical lines about an 1/8 of an inch wide, if so then this is the rivets that hold the outer horizontal seal (as this seal rots away the rivets float loose and mark the glass) or as it gets replaced the replacement rivets are too long and this marks the glass. The car in the picture has chromed steel frames that are OE on that car.
Adrian@
Adrian@
nigeljones said:
Dear all,
The passenger side door glass in my Vixen is very badly scored (I guess at some stage it was catching on something in the lift mechanism).
I plan to buy some cerium oxide and see whether I can polish out some of the marks but I am not optimistic. Can anyone advise on where TVR sourced the glass? Any chance of securing a replacement?
On the same theme, does anyone know this car? How did the fellow get a full open window (no quarter light)? Is this a non moving plexiglass window or does it actually work? If so, how did he do it?
Thanks as ever.
Nigel
Gorgeous car, with confusing features. Looks like a Series one Vixen (or 1800s), but appears to have a padded dash and has full width windows. Also its J reg. so it appears to be registered after the end of S1 production (not that that is particularly diagnostic)....Any information on it?The passenger side door glass in my Vixen is very badly scored (I guess at some stage it was catching on something in the lift mechanism).
I plan to buy some cerium oxide and see whether I can polish out some of the marks but I am not optimistic. Can anyone advise on where TVR sourced the glass? Any chance of securing a replacement?
On the same theme, does anyone know this car? How did the fellow get a full open window (no quarter light)? Is this a non moving plexiglass window or does it actually work? If so, how did he do it?
Thanks as ever.
Nigel
Edited by Astacus on Wednesday 4th April 16:33
It is only toughened glass, and yours might even be clear (fingers crossed it is, use a sheet of white paper to check) so cut and dressed edges, then toughened, it should be a job for a local glazier. (but, I am having glass toughened as we speak and so I know the UK prices can be silly and vary hugely)
You might find this second hand here (but I cannot cannot ship glass to the next street, let alone aboard).
Adrian@
The late M series have push on versions of that outer seal.
You might find this second hand here (but I cannot cannot ship glass to the next street, let alone aboard).
Adrian@
The late M series have push on versions of that outer seal.
Adrian - thanks.
Just to clarify your advice - you are advising to have the glass cut here, edges treated and then toughened?
A quick google suggests that glass is toughened by heat treatment so not sure it can be toughened once cut (they bake one piece?).....
Subject to your feedback, is this something I can buy through you? I need to contact you in due course with a long shopping list (shocks, springs, seals etc etc). I am shipping another car later in the year so will have a container going.
Sounds like I need serious elbow grease over the Easter weekend to see if there is any scope to polish out.
Nigel
Just to clarify your advice - you are advising to have the glass cut here, edges treated and then toughened?
A quick google suggests that glass is toughened by heat treatment so not sure it can be toughened once cut (they bake one piece?).....
Subject to your feedback, is this something I can buy through you? I need to contact you in due course with a long shopping list (shocks, springs, seals etc etc). I am shipping another car later in the year so will have a container going.
Sounds like I need serious elbow grease over the Easter weekend to see if there is any scope to polish out.
Nigel
Hi Nigel,
It is heat treated after it is cut, BUT this can only be done to clear glass (only because the sundym colour is a particular green tint and old and new green tint are just not the same when placed next to each other) and it would jump out at you that they are different.
I would presume that as this is Vixen, it is square back and clear, (I might be wrong) and all the 2nd hand pieces I have that are square back are green tint (as the majority of M's are).
As I said I am having glass heat treated so if needs be...
Adrian@
Did you pick on Steve's comment re him maybe...
It is heat treated after it is cut, BUT this can only be done to clear glass (only because the sundym colour is a particular green tint and old and new green tint are just not the same when placed next to each other) and it would jump out at you that they are different.
I would presume that as this is Vixen, it is square back and clear, (I might be wrong) and all the 2nd hand pieces I have that are square back are green tint (as the majority of M's are).
As I said I am having glass heat treated so if needs be...
Adrian@
Did you pick on Steve's comment re him maybe...
Edited by Adrian@ on Wednesday 4th April 19:33
Adrian - thanks. I will study over the weekend and post a picture to help identify.
Steve - thanks for you kind offer as well. I was simply thinking that I am building a shopping list of parts to get from Adrian and then plan to ship (by container) with another car I have coming over so the parts could all be bundled together .... but if he doesn't have the glass and if I can't get it made here I will be on my knees asking you politely for a price
Steve - thanks for you kind offer as well. I was simply thinking that I am building a shopping list of parts to get from Adrian and then plan to ship (by container) with another car I have coming over so the parts could all be bundled together .... but if he doesn't have the glass and if I can't get it made here I will be on my knees asking you politely for a price
nigeljones said:
Adrian - thanks. I will study over the weekend and post a picture to help identify.
Steve - thanks for you kind offer as well. I was simply thinking that I am building a shopping list of parts to get from Adrian and then plan to ship (by container) with another car I have coming over so the parts could all be bundled together .... but if he doesn't have the glass and if I can't get it made here I will be on my knees asking you politely for a price
Nigel- Thank you.Steve - thanks for you kind offer as well. I was simply thinking that I am building a shopping list of parts to get from Adrian and then plan to ship (by container) with another car I have coming over so the parts could all be bundled together .... but if he doesn't have the glass and if I can't get it made here I will be on my knees asking you politely for a price
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