Hi all,

 

Mrs came out to the car down one morning at her folks and the rear nearside vent glass had been shattered. Still in place but a little hole in the middle; suspecting an unlucky shot from a lawnmower.

 

Anyway, have spoken to a local windscreen company who say this is £470+ VAT and can only be sourced by a main dealer. Quick online quote from some random company through google comes up with a similar so willing to believe its not a one-off price.

 

Seems like its covered by insurance if we use Autoglass at least and doesn't hit our NCB (so definitely definitely won't impact our renewal quote.....)  but is there really no alternative?

Go through insurance, £30 or so excess and jobs a goodun.

 

I not long had a replacement windscreen through a claim, auto glass fixed the stone chip which didn’t help, so whole new windscreen but I insisted on genuine, two times they turned up with non genuine and 3rd they did, I didn’t have to pay more than the £10 for the windscreen chip and insurance didn’t go up (in fact it went down this year).

 

if your back window is tinted I’d insist on genuine part too as non OEM is bound to be slightly lighter or darker 

Got a vin number? And which side is it?

 

I’ll let you know a rough cost but almost £500 sounds way too high!

Any chance the local council had been cutting the verge, Lee? Where’s there blame and all that…
 

£500 for any piece of non-heated windscreen glass is completely insane - especially a bit like that - but trade discounts on glass are huge, which explains why glass insurance replacement excesses are so low. 

On 28/05/2024 at 18:48, ApertureS said:

Got a vin number? And which side is it?

 

I’ll let you know a rough cost but almost £500 sounds way too high!

Cheers AS, will PM

Passenger side. 

On 28/05/2024 at 19:43, numskull said:

Any chance the local council had been cutting the verge, Lee? Where’s there blame and all that…
 

£500 for any piece of non-heated windscreen glass is completely insane - especially a bit like that - but trade discounts on glass are huge, which explains why glass insurance replacement excesses are so low. 

In-laws place is down a private road; was their back garden being done on their own ride-on so no chance of getting that one pinned 😔

On 28/05/2024 at 16:03, Danoid said:

Go through insurance, £30 or so excess and jobs a goodun.

 

I not long had a replacement windscreen through a claim, auto glass fixed the stone chip which didn’t help, so whole new windscreen but I insisted on genuine, two times they turned up with non genuine and 3rd they did, I didn’t have to pay more than the £10 for the windscreen chip and insurance didn’t go up (in fact it went down this year).

 

if your back window is tinted I’d insist on genuine part too as non OEM is bound to be slightly lighter or darker 

Thanks Danoid. These guys seemed to think that dealer was the only source which tbh I’d only be happy with OE; need to speak to Autoglass to get a quote pipe from them but it’s £115 excess for replacement and yes wouldn’t expect anything other than genuine parts.