Rear window time. In cleaning the window I found the heater grid to be very dirty and corroded but this seemed to all come off pretty easily with ordinary household Jif. Left the rag pretty black so there was plenty of crud build up on there.
Spent some time checking the grid with a circuit tester and found the most bottom line has breaks in it, I looked at a few different options to fix it but in the end gave up on it as I'll probably never ever use it anyway.
The difference is easy to see, cleaned on the left and corroded on the right.
New factory seal which I was hoping would be pre cut for the heater grid wires but I was wrong, they really couldn't have made that whole setup any more difficult than this.
Used the old seal to lay on top of the new one to mark where to cut the holes and slots for all the wires to come through, still managed to get them a little bit off from where they needed to be but will be ok.
Installed the seal on the glass and connected the demister, tucking the wires neatly in to the rubber.
Was on my own again that day but it went in pretty easy as I had access through the rear 1/4 windows as they are not installed yet.
Settled it in to place with a few taps but the rubber sat a little proud in the bottom right corner which took me a while to figure out that during the install the wiring had got caught between the body and the seal.
Didn't want to take the window back out again so with a fair bit of effort managed to pry the wires out one by one.
Same story as the front seal, masked the aperture and carefully applied the non hardening sealant between the glass and seal as well as seal to body.
Since fitting the aero mirrors I've been wanting to do 993 color coded door handles as well, I just feel they go well together.
Was going to buy brand new ones as they are not very expensive and fit my 964 internals but after more research found out you cannot buy the 993 chrome bezels around the key slot by themselves.
Found a pair of complete used ones on eBay in the US and had them sent over, both need painting of course but first wanted to create a pair of nice handles using the best parts of the 964/993 stuff I had.
Everything apart and loads of cleaning, 30yo grease gone hard as a rock took a lot of effort to clean off.
Freed up all of the springs and brass key plates transferring my 964 ones to the 993 tumblers as they were in nicer shape.
The passenger 993 handle had a blanking plug in it and several sources online said this just pops out but that isn't the case.
There's a tiny roll pin in the chrome bezel that needs to be drilled out to remove the bezel from the cylinder and the plug can then be removed.
On reassembly I used a 2mm screw instead of a roll pin, does the same job.
New base gaskets on and test fitted on the door. Love it, great decision. Maybe ill just leave them this way, one blue, one red! Colours of the Dutch flag.
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