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Detain the pane

Before more weight saving we have exciting news.
We've now sourced a rubber bung to fill the gap where the rear wiper motor was.



The job this time is to replace the glass window pain in the offside rear door with a plastic replacement.  So we start by removing the glass and the piece of wood holding it up.
Then, a conversation to decide if we should do the small window segment.
Out it comes.
The reflection in the glass is truly haunting.
You can remove the strut but we were to find to create a single opening but it would become apparent that things get tricky with the seal so for now at least it's staying in.
The small segment of glass can be teased out of the surround and as usual everything is getting weighed as we go.
Time to cut some plastic to replace the glass.
We're not using the interior door handles so those have come off.  In goes the pretend glass.
Nobody is going to tell the difference.
Repeating the process for the little segment.
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So far, so surprisingly easy.
In the absence of the window mechanism we are going to need some temporary wood.
Excitement mounts as the assembly starts to go back together.
That strut bolts in further down the door and acts as a runner for the glass.
Unlike glass you can drill through plastic without completely destroying it.
The result is totally better than expected.
There's actually time to pull a bit more out of the back.
More trim came out.
The trim, and the rear seatbelts came away with by unfastening more poppers and screws.

Savings

We'll return to do the other door but for simplicity both doors are accounted for on the savings:

Rear boot trim 550g
2 x side of boot trim 3880g
Seat anchors and screws 682g
2 x rear seat belt trim 978g
2 x rear seat belts 1502g
2 x small window segments 654g
2 x large window segments 4400g
2 x door handles 248g
2 x small trim pieces 328g
Misc screws and clips 119g

Then added to the car:

2 x plastic small window segment 288g
2 x plastic large window segments 1934g
4 x wood spacers 50g

Sub-total saving: 11.1kg

Add that to the previously saved 51.9kg:

Running total weight saving: 63.0kg

The same weight as an adult human, such as Guanyu Zhou.

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