Help with chrome window trim fitting please

Hi all can any one tell me/show me haw to get the chrome trim into the windscreen rubber please.
I do have the tool for the job but not sure which way round it should be used .
Any tips someone told me to put the chrome in some hot water for a bitand washing up liqwid on the rubber.
Should i start from top or bottom is it a one man job or two.
any help here would be very welcome.
Thank you all.

I would not use washing up liquid at all as it contains salt!
I used some silicone spray in the grove and pushed the chrome trim in, it took me about a week to fit it as it was painfull pushing the trim in with fingers and a block of wood then finding the trim was not quite the right shape/bend then pulling it back out bending/shaping it a bit more and starting again. I would not want to do it again!
My trim was in 2 half and started at the top, its the corners that was the hardest as there is a curve and a bend there.
This was on my Mk1 Scirocco but guess the Mk1 golf is the same if you have the metal trim not the plastic chrome looking trim?

mark1gls said

I would not use washing up liquid at all as it contains salt!
I used some silicone spray in the grove and pushed the chrome trim in, it took me about a week to fit it as it was painfull pushing the trim in with fingers and a block of wood then finding the trim was not quite the right shape/bend then pulling it back out bending/shaping it a bit more and starting again. I would not want to do it again!
My trim was in 2 half and started at the top, its the corners that was the hardest as there is a curve and a bend there.
This was on my Mk1 Scirocco but guess the Mk1 golf is the same if you have the metal trim not the plastic chrome looking trim?

Hi Mark1gls so you did not use the special tool then just hands and wood.My chrome is the plastic one.
Thanks mate

No I  just used my hands hence the blisters I would guess its differnet fitting the plastic trim as you don't wont to damage it as it might crack the plastic.
Sorry not seen the tool so can't be much help there

It's a right pain but doable. Thread the trim through the opening of the tool pushing away from you digging the wire nose of the tool into the groove in the rubber the seal. The tool should have a wheel on it that sits on the face of the new trim holding it down into the seal as you move along. I don't think I've got any pictures of it from when I did it but use lots and lots of silicon spray lubricant.

Julesgreycab said

It's a right pain but doable. Thread the trim through the opening of the tool pushing away from you digging the wire nose of the tool into the groove in the rubber the seal. The tool should have a wheel on it that sits on the face of the new trim holding it down into the seal as you move along. I don't think I've got any pictures of it from when I did it but use lots and lots of silicon spray lubricant.

Hi Julesgreycab my tool just has an eyelet no wheel ill try and get a photo up soon . im not looking foward to this now  

hi, replaced mine in about an hour, you need the right tool, get one from ebay, then get a bucket of hot water and put the chrome trim in, get some WD40 and spray it all round the rubber then start at the bottom in the middle and just go for it spraying more WD40 as you go, once finished give your motor a good wash off.

88heliosblue said

hi, replaced mine in about an hour, you need the right tool, get one from ebay, then get a bucket of hot water and put the chrome trim in, get some WD40 and spray it all round the rubber then start at the bottom in the middle and just go for it spraying more WD40 as you go, once finished give your motor a good wash off.

Thanks 88heliosblue can i just ask you i have bought two rolls of chrome rolls now as the first one had some twists in it and now i have two with twists in will it come out in warm water do you think.Also do you have a link two the tool of ebay so i get the right one .
Thanks again

hi, the item number on ebay for the sort of tool you want is 221361639554, once you put the chrome insert in warm water all twists will come out fine and you'll be surprised just how manageable it is once warmed, have the water quite warm, not hot that can't put your hand in, but warm. glad to help

88heliosblue said

hi, the item number on ebay for the sort of tool you want is 221361639554, once you put the chrome insert in warm water all twists will come out fine and you'll be surprised just how manageable it is once warmed, have the water quite warm, not hot that can't put your hand in, but warm. glad to help

Thank you