rear window seal Options

[tod914]

I have to redo my rear window. The seal at the bottom broke so I have to redo it.
Everything is apart and cleaned. The 3m tape i used 2 years ago, came off very easy. I figured it would of set better than it did. Window popped out np, and tape was very gooey.
Are there alternatives to that 1/4" butyl tape? Or should I go with that again? Maybe have an autoglass place do it???

Any thoughts???

Thanks

[Dave_Darling]

It isn't. Trust me on that... Well, I take it back. It was fun for about 10 minutes. Then it got really old. That's when I decided that I didn't really have to paint any of the channel around the window, just clean it the rest of the way up.

I used some towels between the seat backs and the window to hold the window in overnight. I cleaned the window itself with a razor blade, then Windex, then acetone. Similar treatment for the channel in the body, though I may have used different chemicals. I let the window sit out in the sun for a while, and hit the body (and then the butyl tape once it was in the channel) with heat from a hair dryer. Kept heating the edges of the window when I put it in as well.

No problem as yet with the window, and (before I parked the car) it held up to some ferocious heat...

--DD