General Windshield replacement

[WitleyPanda]

Recommendations for replacement, Worcestershire .
Have a crack growing across screen.

 

[Herts Hillhopper]

Do you have windscreen cover included in your insurance? (Most policies do…)

If so, use your insurers preferred provider, which is more than likely to be Autoglass, who will come out to you. (And doesn’t affect no claims bonus)

Mine (4x4 with heated screen) was replaced by Autoglass last September and they were very good. (Just watch that you un-tick the ‘replace the wiper blades too’ option as that was rather more than new Bosch blades from Halfords.

I had to pay an excess, which I think was £125 - but as the heated screen is at least £600 plus fitting costs, that seemed a good price to me!

See this post:
Thread 'Stone chip leads to windscreen replacement. Heated version…'
https://www.fiatforum.com/threads/stone-chip-leads-to-windscreen-replacement-heated-version.511020/

 

[WitleyPanda]

Do you have windscreen cover included in your insurance? (Most policies do…)

If so, use your insurers preferred provider, which is more than likely to be Autoglass, who will come out to you. (And doesn’t affect no claims bonus)

Mine (4x4 with heated screen) was replaced by Autoglass last September and they were very good. (Just watch that you in-tick the ‘replace the wiper blades too’ option as that was rather more than new Bosch blades from Halfords.

I had to pay an excess, which I think was £125 - but as the heated screen is at least £600 plus fitting costs, that seemed a good price to me!

See this post:
Thread 'Stone chip leads to windscreen replacement. Heated version…'
https://www.fiatforum.com/threads/stone-chip-leads-to-windscreen-replacement-heated-version.511020/

No screen insurance on this policy. On other vehicles have had this, but the excess was far higher than I found local, self employed fitters, since they don’t have hand to pay a referral fee back to the insurance company? Might be different if screen actually £600.

 

[WitleyPanda]

Griffith Theory of Brittle Fracture ?​

 

[Panda IIs]

Griffith Theory of Brittle Fracture ?​

Well not sure that was an inherent flaw I think you can see the stone impact in the mask? Which I'm sure you spotted. You can now study the crack growth rate

 

[Panda IIs]

Does not have to be an inherent flaw, ( Dr Gordon, metallurgy lecture at MIDDX POLY a LONG while ago so don’t have the notes) as such, but yes seen the chip in the mask area. The theory predicts that over a certain length the energy required to increase in length is low, hence spontaneous failure. However crack growth rate now very slow, if growing. Stress free state, unlike me. Anyhow £350 at National Windscreens will remove my “experimental “ rig

We are on the same page even if we have both lost the notes! I think that was my point, the flaw induced by the (probable) stone was in excess of any inherent flaw and therefore required less energy to initiate crack growth. A thermal shock (pouring hot water on to melt ice for example) will probably generate some more "action". Despite destroying the screen on my treasured Volvo 940 my wife still persists in doing this on the Panda...

 

[A3jeroen]

Lukewarm water (in a plastic bag) will work even better with less risk of breaking a windscreen.

gr J

 

[WitleyPanda]

Lukewarm water (in a plastic bag) will work even better with less risk of breaking a windscreen.

gr J

Survival/ sports foil blanket or synthetic ground sheet, even cardboard work…. Doubles up in summer as a solar thermal shield.

 

[Herts Hillhopper]

Meanwhile, how much is a new windscreen (when not heated)...

Having just changed insurer for my Landy (as the current one wanted more than double the quote from other insurers this year), I note that Admiral's excess for windscreen replacement is 'just' £50, rather than LV's £95.

 

[WitleyPanda]

Meanwhile, how much is a new windscreen (when not heated)...

Having just changed insurer for my Landy (as the current one wanted more than double the quote from other insurers this year), I note that Admiral's excess for windscreen replacement is 'just' £50, rather than LV's £95.

NFU £50 on a 90, Admiral on the Panda £115, so it more complex that just which insurer?

 

[JayAre]

NFU £50 on a 90, Admiral on the Panda £115, so it more complex that just which insurer?

Landy’s just plain flat glass and it’s been around generations so plenty of customers to keep prices down?
Panda 312/9 just 13 years and quite a rare car on UK roads so lower replacement business pushes prices up?
Good old capitalism at work…

Btw my LV= Panda TA w/screen excess is £140

 

[Herts Hillhopper]

Landy’s just plain flat glass and it’s been around generations so plenty of customers to keep prices down?
Panda 312/9 just 13 years and quite a rare car on UK roads so lower replacement business pushes prices up?
Good old capitalism at work…

Btw my LV= Panda TA w/screen excess is £140

Landy is laminated, tinted and heated. But smaller, and yes, flat.
I think Admiral charges a flat rate of excess on car policies, but maybe a lower flat rate on commercial? (HardTop 90 is class N1 on the registration docs).
I can’t imagine the windscreen excess varies model by model with same insurer…

 

[Herts Hillhopper]

Yes: Admiral car policies - excess is fixed at £115. LV now £140 ( was £95 last year)
Landy windscreen is £270 for a new (heated, tinted and laminated) screen (plus fitting of course)

 

[WitleyPanda]

Landy is laminated, tinted and heated. But smaller, and yes, flat.
I think Admiral charges a flat rate of excess on car policies, but maybe a lower flat rate on commercial? (HardTop 90 is class N1 on the registration docs).
I can’t imagine the windscreen excess varies model by model with same insurer…

Lucky you to have landy that tinted and heated. Mine was plain, but they broke the direct replacement, so ended up with tinted one as all that was available then that day locally. (Squeezing them into an old rubber seal on a relatively rigid frame more difficult that just a surface glue job.). Landy front screen currently about £150, plus fitting, panda £350 +vat fitted.

 

[Herts Hillhopper]

Lucky you to have landy that tinted and heated. Mine was plain, but they broke the direct replacement, so ended up with tinted one as all that was available then that day locally. (Squeezing them into an old rubber seal on a relatively rigid frame more difficult that just a surface glue job.)

2013 - had gone posh by then: heated seats too

 

[WitleyPanda]

2013 - had gone posh by then: heated seats too
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1986, 90 not Defender ( and a 1990) proper trucks, vanilla and simple.