V6 beastie is in the body shop for a respray and the N/S door has some extensive rust (only bit on the car). Fancy changing the door for a solid one but my local breaker only has one off a GTV... will it fit? I know the seals are different but it that it ?
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Vans
Thanks for the help, Gtv doors delivered to the body shop earlier so we will soon see if we have a problem. Checked the GtV and the spider for the "pin locator" spider has one, Gtv doesn't but has holes in the door for the bolts to secure so should be good to go.
Cheers.
Oddly enough, given how some of the cars were "use whatever's to hand" when constructing, it is a bit of a surprise that Alfa went as far as differing window glass for the same shaped doors for the GTV & Spider.
Hi ive done the swap several times.The gtv window rear top, has a sharper corner than the top curve of the spider window which matches the curve of the hood . The doors are the same.
Beat me to it The gtv corner is almost a right angle,the spider ,as you say,is a curve. Surprised Euroboy managed to get it to work at all,when i had both types out and compared them one on top of the other,i thought the difference was so marked i didn't even attempt to fit the gtv glass in the spider
Fitted a Spider window to my GTV door (on my Spider) today.
What a difference! Finally a window the seals properly and a door that closes without issue.
Not only is the top corner a different profile (as mentioned), the glass also sits about 1/2cm further 'forward' on the trailing edge, which has solved the issue I was having with the glass fouling the leading edge of the hood.
ps and given a slap for not only steam cleaning the roof,but making a p poor job of it too
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