Windshield woes - holes are lost!

So I get speedy back from the paint shop and along with all the other holes and fiberglss repairs they did, the filled my windshield mount holes! Yep - filled with filler and now I gotta drill those out and possibly scratch or drill wrong. Any advice on getting my windshield mount holes back? This one did NOT show up in the knowledge base!

Do you mean the holes along the bottom where the aluminum strip goes? Just drill new ones. Make sure you align the trim properly. When I got my car painted I had a auto trim shop install the new trim and windshield. Cost me $100.00 and it was tricky but he did a good job.

Why not get a new trim while your at it.

http://speedsterowners.com/library/cmcmanual2/images/cmc65.jpg

Find the center point, and then find the same distance forward on both sides for the posts. Lay the windshield on top of the car, trace the line and use the build manual in the Knowledge section for the rest. It should be there for whatever build you've got, no?

Or do you mean the mounting post holes at either end? Attached is template for post mounting hole that I got years ago from CMC. It would give you close proximity for holes.

May I add; see if you can find the locations of the original holes (maybe looking from underneath, if possible) and redrill them; that'll save you a lot of measuring and tweaking to get everything to fit properly again.

If you can just find 3 or 4 of the holes from underneath to help you line up the trim Then pencel mark the holes you cant find in the trim for a guide across the coul. Maybe that will work . Tuff call?


Some of these bodyshops Get my goat. when they do dumb things like that. I hate re working someome elses mess. I may now have to help a freind re touch up a classic car a local bodyshop Sc??wed up. Sand scratches, overspray. and they even got paint on the air box under the hood . And it a very poor color match.

Pittyful workmanship and thy charged $700.oo to mess it up. I give up! And the worse part, I warned him not to take it there.

Thanks - I think I'll take the "template" idea and mix that with finding the holes from below to line it up. BTW, it is the two large holes on at the outsides I'm talking about - the trim holes area all intact.

Thats Real good news. In that case the template will be the ticket and because the post is a schose larger it gives you a little room for error. Use it to pencel mark the holes

Also try this take your thumb and press firmly on the ares you think the hole should be, the putty might pop though and problem solves it shelf.

DONT try that from the bottom side Your paint may break lose way past the hole on the top side making a big mess.