Yesterday my new windscreen turned up - pretty quick service! Next day delivery to my place, from a glass place a 25 minute drive away that didn't have the screen in stock, so it came by courier from a hour-and-a-half drive away first...
Anyway. Today I kicked out the old windscreen (that I put in just under two years ago) and fitted the new... except that I didn't, because it didn't fit! There's a 15mm gap at the side, and an 8mm gap at the top.
Standing the two windscreens side-by-side, I can see about a 5mm difference all around, which is about what you'd expect. BUT (and here's the fun part), if you measure with a tape measure, stretched taught, from corner-to-corner, side-to-side, and top-to-bottom, the two are within a couple of millimetres of each other! It's nuts... :bang:
So my conclusion is that the curvature of the glass must be different, or some other reason (though you'd think that the diagonal measurement or the side-to-side measurement is what would show the difference, since the tape measure doesn't follow the glass curvature).
Anyway the windscreen was labelled 'Uno 3dr 5dr van'
and made by a company in China I think.
I've never thought of the Brazilian-style Cityvan (the one with the clamshell bonnet) and similar Brazilian-style Uno as having a different windscreen, but I guess that this is the case. Or, the one I've got is wrong because of a manufacturing fault. Either way, it now has to go back, though the glass company is wondering what they're going to do about it.
At least my part of the job went smoothly
Cheers!
-Alex
Anyway. Today I kicked out the old windscreen (that I put in just under two years ago) and fitted the new... except that I didn't, because it didn't fit! There's a 15mm gap at the side, and an 8mm gap at the top.
Standing the two windscreens side-by-side, I can see about a 5mm difference all around, which is about what you'd expect. BUT (and here's the fun part), if you measure with a tape measure, stretched taught, from corner-to-corner, side-to-side, and top-to-bottom, the two are within a couple of millimetres of each other! It's nuts... :bang:
So my conclusion is that the curvature of the glass must be different, or some other reason (though you'd think that the diagonal measurement or the side-to-side measurement is what would show the difference, since the tape measure doesn't follow the glass curvature).
Anyway the windscreen was labelled 'Uno 3dr 5dr van'
and made by a company in China I think.
I've never thought of the Brazilian-style Cityvan (the one with the clamshell bonnet) and similar Brazilian-style Uno as having a different windscreen, but I guess that this is the case. Or, the one I've got is wrong because of a manufacturing fault. Either way, it now has to go back, though the glass company is wondering what they're going to do about it.
At least my part of the job went smoothly
Cheers!
-Alex