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| Author: | Scoobyzuk [ Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | It gets worse......Windscreen |
Right to my great annoyance I have now found a crack in my windscreen, big enough to cause a problem and fail an MOT (after what they failed my Subaru on they will pick anywhere!). I know I am going to regret this but how much is a windscreen? am I better off getting a 2nd hand windscreen from a breakers and get someone to fit it? if so how much would I expect to pay? 
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| Author: | 944 Man [ Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
What year? 924 and series one 944 screens are far cheaper than series two 944 screens which are flush fitting. A 937 (924 CGT) flush fitting screen is usefully cheaper but it doesnt have an integrated radio aerial... |
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| Author: | J.J. [ Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
I got a new one on the insurance. Cost me £50. Think it was £1800 from memory. 9442 Flush job tinted with radio areal in it. Insurance cost £100 over the odds but lots of extras in it. |
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| Author: | 944 Man [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
The flush series two windscreens cost under £300. |
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| Author: | stepa1007 [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
From this post it easy to see how easily one can be ripped off unless you do your homework first. Stephen |
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| Author: | Scoobyzuk [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
the early 924 (82/83) |
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| Author: | J.J. [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
944 Man wrote: The flush series two windscreens cost under £300. Just dug the reciept out. 9442 It was £926.50 If you could get them for £300 the Insurance wouldn't have paid. That was Autoglass & they were the cheapest. You can get second hand ones but thats a different story. Well worth the extra for full glass cover. Be glad it's not the rear one. There £4500! |
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| Author: | 944 Man [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
I can 'get them' for under £300, and so can you. It was because I can get them for under £300 that I posted as I did. Do you think that I simply made the figure up? A Saint Corbain (the OEM manufacturer) flush screen with integrated antenna cost me a shade over £200 in 1995, from a windscreen wholesaler. I think that it is foolish to suppose that the price that Autoglass, or similar, quote represents the true cost of the part. |
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| Author: | 944 Man [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
Further to the above: the prices that I am referring to were quoted to me last Autumn, by an autoglass wholesaler. |
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| Author: | ExAudiSi [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
In my experience, what insurance approved windscreen suppliers charge insurance companies for glass and fitting is far higher than they would charge a private individual for the same item. |
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| Author: | 944 Man [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
The official dealer price for a flush screen was about £350 in 1995, fro those interested. The price was the same whether you wanted a top tint or not and it was similar for cabriolet screens too. I bought several off JCT600 in Bradford which PCGB had on a clearance offer list, for £100. They should have been clear/un-tinted (probably for Swedish market cars, as all UK series two cars had tinted glass), but when I got them home they were all tinted cabriolet screens. JCT didnt return my calls so I ended up having to keep them; although I did do rather well out of them in the end. |
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| Author: | J.J. [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
very interesting 944 man. You no more made up the figure than I did. But these days insurance are pretty sharp Bodyshops don't make so much on insurance claims anymore. It's odd that they alllow a windscreen company to over charge them by 3X! 
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| Author: | 944 Man [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
I doubt that the contracted replacement companies charge anything more than a cost + % and a contract fitting rate. Invoice values and extortionate mark-ups are reserved for punters, Im sure. This is the reason that they insist that you use their contractors, when you could get a replacement fitted yourself for £340 (£approximately £300 for the screen and £40 for fitting). If they were paying the 'invoice' value then theyd have your arm off: as it is theyll almost certainly penalise you, if theyll allow you to claim at all. |
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| Author: | ahoy944 [ Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
hey thare i know how it feels i awoke last sunday morning to find some little toerag left a brick embeded in mines i have an 84 944 i phoned autoglass and was quoted £988.33 i was so shocked i dropped my mobile and broke the screen how gutted 
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| Author: | 944 Man [ Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It gets worse......Windscreen |
A fitter will charge about £40 and Porsche only want £261-£282 for a 924-type series one windscreen (proof for the doubters: #477845011D Windshield £260.57: #477845011F Windshield £272.48; #477845011E Windshield £281.85). I think that this goes to show that the prices quoted by these firms are a nonsense. Simon |
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