[Dave Bell]

If you want you can take it out yourself so only you can be to blame if it breaks. After removing the trim, take a piece of guitar or piano wire, insert it through the rubber gunk just past the edge of the windshield until is is all the way through to the other side. Now you have wire you can drag around the entire outside edge of the windshield to break the old seal and allow the windshield to come out with minimum force.

Don't pry, hammer or force the windshield too hard after this or it may break.... done it on a parts car... oh well...

If you do this yourself, you get a chance to clean out the mounting channel, clean up any rust and prep if necessary, install a new seal to the dash if you want, etc. In short you can do a better prep job than the windshield guy will have time to do IMHO.

- Dave