How to Remove LH Rear Quarter Glass

kbaisley

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Midwest
TDI
2006 Jetta TDI 5spd
I cannot seem to find a thread for this, but I am looking to find out how to replace the Left Rear Door Quarter Glass. I got my car back from the body shop storage lot and someone broke the rear quarter glass. I have a replacement glass in route, but I cannot seem to find the details on how to pull it.
 

kbaisley

Veteran Member
Joined
Jul 31, 2002
Location
Midwest
TDI
2006 Jetta TDI 5spd
So, I couldn't find much out there, but did find some details after I borrowed the service manual. Here are some quick steps incase someone else runs into the issue.

1. Remove outer door skin
2. Remove screws to the window track. There will be two down in the bottom area of the door, behind the door skin. There will be a 3rd up under the weatherstrip, to the left of the window track / divider.
3. Lower window, pull divider / window track out of the way. (Service manual states that you need to remove the main door window, I was able to do it without removing it.
4. Clean out old broken glass and spray weather strip with silicon spray
5. Slip in replacement glass
6. Reverse steps to button up door.

The job was pretty straight forward. I did have to get creative with the weather strip.
 
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