Just had my windscreen replaced by Skoda (they contracted out to their trusted glazier) and while applying my windshield coating, that the rain/light sensor has an air pocket in it. Should I be taking it back to Skoda?

 

What's a windshield coating? Is this something that is applied onto the glass?

2 hours ago, silver1011 said:

What's a windshield coating? Is this something that is applied onto the glass?

Yep, makes it more hydrophobic. Glass coatings, whether it's something cheap like Rain-X or something expensive like the CarPro stuff, make rain driving a lot better imo.

 

This is the coating I've applied to the windshield.

 

12 hours ago, ZacDaMan72 said:

ust had my windscreen replaced by Skoda (they contracted out to their trusted glazier) and while applying my windshield coating, that the rain/light sensor has an air pocket in it. Should I be taking it back to Skoda?

 

Definitely.

The coating was done from the outside, but here we have part of the sensor off the glass, from inside.

I had ceramic coating applied to my car in the summer, the detailer said he'd used a new CarPro coating on the windscreen. It definitely beads and runs off like it does in the YouTube video.

 

Just going back to the OP, I thought the coating was like a polish, or a liquid treatment. The defect in the original post looks like an air bubble caught under a plastic coating of some kind.

 

Am I getting my wires crossed?

 

EDIT: Ah, when you were applying the coating yourself to the new glass, you noticed the defect on the new windscreen.

 

Definitely take that back, it isn't right.

 

Edited 17 December, 20196 yr by silver1011

It’s not supposed to be like that, take it back. It’d drive me nuts and I wouldn’t accept it.

 

It may affect the rain sensor, if not now later.

5 hours ago, silver1011 said:

I had ceramic coating applied to my car in the summer, the detailer said he'd used a new CarPro coating on the windscreen. It definitely beads and runs off like it does in the YouTube video.

 

Just going back to the OP, I thought the coating was like a polish, or a liquid treatment. The defect in the original post looks like an air bubble caught under a plastic coating of some kind.

 

Am I getting my wires crossed?

 

EDIT: Ah, when you were applying the coating yourself to the new glass, you noticed the defect on the new windscreen.

 

Definitely take that back, it isn't right.

 

Just re-read my OP, didn’t realise I forgot to say the word ‘realised’ - my bad. 

 

Anyways, they wouldn’t have to remount the windscreen, right? They’d just have to remount the rain sensor?

I'm not sure how similar a 2016 Octavia Scout is to a 2019 Kodiaq, but when I had a cracked windscreen replaced all the camera and sensor gubbins were already fixed to the windscreen.

 

All the fitter had to do was push the rear view mirror into the ball socket and plug in the wiring (plus the coding and calibration etc.).

 

This might suggest the fault lies with the screen itself, rather than the way in which it was fitted.

 

The Kodiaq could of course be very different...

 

 

 

 

Edited 17 December, 20196 yr by silver1011

This is exactly why I am reluctant to get my windscreen replaced... have a chip but in an unrepairable place.

 

Not sure if Skoda NZ get the windscreens with the gubbins preattached or we have to rely on 3rd party glass?

1 hour ago, vRSNZ said:

This is exactly why I am reluctant to get my windscreen replaced... have a chip but in an unrepairable place.

 

Not sure if Skoda NZ get the windscreens with the gubbins preattached or we have to rely on 3rd party glass?

I’ll ask when I take the car in to get the bubble checked. Service manager acknowledged it didn’t look up to scratch. 
 

My car had its glass replaced with the OEM stuff. Just make sure you get insurance to liaise with Skoda and not Smith & Smith or whatever. 

Edited 18 December, 20196 yr by ZacDaMan72

@vRSNZ they just swap the camera and sensors from the old glass to the new one.