Boot Window Heated Element Connector Repair

[johnhenry 20]

Morning

 

I've just gone out to the car, to begin cleaning and sorting and noticed this

 

 

happened with the car was in the body shop, i remember from last year, totally forgot, looks like its been repaired pretty shoddily by myself at some stage.

 

suggestions on a better repair please?

Cheers

John

[MikeC 10]

Did you try and solder it before?

I soldered these myself before and worked. Mind you you'll need a good bit of flux on the surface to stick it.

Time and patience, and a controllable iron does help

[S@m 156]

I tried conductive glue and could never get it to work - in the end i did manage to solder it but its tricky because you are working against gravity and the glass itself acts like a giant heatsink making it hard to achieve a nice joint.

[commievid 8]

Silver conductive paint? From Maplins or somesuch.

[chipstick 382 1 Cars]

I've the same issue when a bird flew in my car and took it off flapping about. May try the solder if I think of it.

[johnhenry 20]

i have tried soldering it last summer, i wasnt the best with the iron so ill give it another go but im not that good with it yet.

 

tempted by silver conductive paint; paint means it is stickier than solder, therefor i stand a chance, will pick some up tomorrow and see how it goes

cheers!

[chipstick 382 1 Cars]

There was a previous thread about this and I'm sure I recall the instructions specifically mentioning it won't work as an adhesive.

[MikeC 10]

Plenty of flux, don't rely on the flux within the solder to help, and a large iron tip.

[GilesW 41]

Careful - I blew out teh back windo on a car trying to solder teh connector back on.

 

Bonded in too. Luckily had a mate who worked in the trade so a new one went in cheap.