G'day Folks,

After much work I've traced leaks to leaking rubbers on rear and front windshields / windscreens on my 1981 W123 300D. I've bought new rubbers and I plan to fit them as described in the wiki.

However - and here's the problem - I'm stuck working outside. At the moment ambient air temperature is about -6 degrees C at night and barely goes above freezing point in the daytime. I know the thermal expansion and contraction of rubber, steel and glass are quite different - and I've heard stories of windscreens popping out of cars when it get really cold...

so

Question:-

At what temperature would you gauge it to be OK to start this job?

(I don't want to rip it all out and have to wait until spring time to get it all back in)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!