Car been sat on drive all week as I've been away on work. Got home last night, got in car to go to get some fuel for the weekend, and there it was a crack at least a foot long comming up from the bottom right hand corner of the screen. Not pleased to say the least! Wasn't there at the beginning of the week, so how did it happen?

Has it been parked in the sun? M8 shattered his back window on his cossie by just running some water on it after it was parked in the sun.

Didn't know they had sun in Cornwall.

Didn't know they had sun in Cornwall.

Didn't know they could read a forecast in Essex :p

So anybody had a windscreen replaced on an Octavia? Can the trim be reused or should I get some new? Anything else to watch out for or make sure gets done properly?

The trim that runs down from the roof is just pulled off and refused. The screen is bonded in, so the supplier will do that all for you. My Octy is on her 3rd windscreen since I have owned her (and may well have had it replaced once or twice before that!). Mine have been replaced by RAC Windscreens and Autoglass.

Thanks for that. Should be a straight forward job then.

I got a 14cm crack last autumn which I had glued and it lasted...until today. Got in, 35 celsius outside, turned on aircon, bang...another 15cm

Make sure you get them to fit a windscreen with the correct colour sun strip!

Autoglass fitted a green one on my last vRS instead of black and it really wasn't a good look!

I got a 14cm crack last autumn which I had glued and it lasted...until today. Got in, 35 celsius outside, turned on aircon, bang...another 15cm

Can they really glue a 14cm crack? Wow... I assumed anything over a cm or two was unfixable...