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Happened to me, as well. Mentioned it to the dealer and they only wanted to replace the entire rear glass. I was able to use a soldering iron to heat up the existing glob of solder, reinsert the metal tab, hold it there for a few seconds to heat up, remove the iron and let it cool down. It's been holding strong ever since.
Interesting, thanks for posting that!
I'll give this a try (as soon as my neighbor returns my soldering iron
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Be super careful if you try this. there are many many stories out there of folks using soldering irons on these and shattering the glass. Most things I've read state that you need to take some serious time with a heat gun or at least a blow-dryer and warm up all of the surrounding glass slowly. the hot solder on cool/cold glass seems to be a recipe for disaster. Ford doesn't even try to repair them, they replace the glass in most cases, probably because of this.
Very valid point. Don't use a soldering gun for this kind of repair, it's unnecessary and overkill. I used a Hakko iron set to 650 with a rather small tip that I use on PCB's and small point to point wire connections. Iron contact was probably less than 5 seconds total and I did my repair in the summer without any kind of preheat.
This is true, but it's very easy to control the environment and temp in a controlled setup like a glass fab. For all we know, they solder those contacts on just after the glass is laminated, while it's still hot after putting the actual filaments on. They may also be using a solder with a much lower melting point then the typical consumer electricians solder.
