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KMW
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 Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 1:04 pm Post subject: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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Hi, anyone with a early and late 60s Beetle that can tell me the size of
the rear window. I know the rear window got bigger mid 60s.
Want to know height and width of glass and width of body opening.
Want to know which is closest in size to a late Porsche 356C rear window.
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viiking
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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Bentley states for 66-67-68 Rear window...
"The rectangular rear window, which is 35.4 inches (900mm) wide and 15.6 inches (359mm) high and installed at an angle of 53 degrees". |
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panicman
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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For 58-60, Bentley states 31.9 inches wide (810mm) and 14.2” (360mm) high for the glass.
I can’t give body measurements, as the glass is all in, and I can’t find a reference in the shop manual.
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panicman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:54 am Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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Bentley states for 66-67-68 Rear window...
"The rectangular rear window, which is 35.4 inches (900mm) wide and 15.6 inches (359mm) high and installed at an angle of 53 degrees". |
15.6” = 396mm
Somebody (mr. Viiking!) bolluxed the inch to mm conversion!!
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KMW
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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Thanks both of you!
The Bentley, why did I not think of that?
I have the 61-65 Bentley in the garage.
Got a 60 KG Cabrio, no use checking thats rear window. |
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KTPhil 
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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| panicman wrote: |
| viiking wrote: |
Bentley states for 66-67-68 Rear window...
"The rectangular rear window, which is 35.4 inches (900mm) wide and 15.6 inches (359mm) high and installed at an angle of 53 degrees". |
15.6” = 396mm
Somebody (mr. Viiking!) bolluxed the inch to mm conversion!! |
Or was it the mm to inch conversion? How do we know which is right? |
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viiking
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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| panicman wrote: |
| viiking wrote: |
Bentley states for 66-67-68 Rear window...
"The rectangular rear window, which is 35.4 inches (900mm) wide and 15.6 inches (359mm) high and installed at an angle of 53 degrees". |
15.6” = 396mm
Somebody (mr. Viiking!) bolluxed the inch to mm conversion!! |
Thanks for the pick-up. This just highlights the stupidity of having two measurement systems and the archaic nature of the non-metric system (Sorry US people). The error is within the Bentley/VWoA!!
My statement was correct. I wrote verbatim from the book! Section 9, Page 4. I've added this photo as a corrigendum in the gallery.
I have since physically measured a glass and it is indeed close enough to 400mm so 396mm is correct I believe. But others might like to make their own measurements as my vehicle is a Euro import here to Australia. I wouldn't think there should be a difference but Australia sometimes had differences in year model vehicles due to local manufacture versus Import versus the US.
Edit: I believe the "height measurement" is a vertical height not the curved length of the glass. My measurement was the curved length of the glass hence the discrepancy between my measurement and 396mm.
Edit 2: 395/25.4 = 15.59" = 15.6". I think the error is likely that it should have been 395 not 359. Someone was dyslexic on the day.
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panicman
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:13 am Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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I’ll give the Bentley guy an inch; he was probably underpaid and over stressed, working against an impossible deadline for the blood sucking publisher.
To the rest, I give no more than a mm.
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viiking
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:42 am Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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| panicman wrote: |
I’ll give the Bentley guy an inch; he was probably underpaid and over stressed, working against an impossible deadline for the blood sucking publisher.
To the rest, I give no more than a mm. |
What you should have said was....
I’ll give the Bentley guy 25.4mm; he was probably underpaid and over stressed, working against an impossible deadline for the blood sucking publisher.
To the rest, I give no more than three sixty-fourths. |
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panicman
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:53 am Post subject: Re: Rear window sizes early/late 60s? |
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Agreed!!
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