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Old 6th August 2018, 06:02   #21
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I wish I could get that around here Brian! I can't even find one in a scrapper locally. Looms havent had a 75 for months! The original guy quoted £80 to try but only if he could get a screen as back up- which he then said he couldn't.
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Old 6th August 2018, 17:48   #22
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cant see what the problem is getting a new screen, spoke to mate toady who owns a windscreen company, and the rain sensored screens are £100 incl vat to buy and his supplier has got quite a few in
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Old 6th August 2018, 18:00   #23
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Yes, I've gone somewhere else and the chap is coming Friday to fit one. I have no idea what was going on a few weeks ago when it all kicked off to start with. Something about the current batch having suspect curvature. maybe they proved to be okay or there is a new batch now! Hope so!

The irony is I asked some scrap yards and they wanted £120-£150 without shipping! Crazy! New one isn't costing that much more fitted!

This better fix the leak, or I give up and buy some flippers...

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Old 7th August 2018, 07:34   #24
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So I was away last week when we had some torrential downpours. Checked under the V6 carpets again this morning and UGH!!!! WET!!!!! Here we go again.

As someone posted a few weeks back they had managed to get a sensor screen from Autoglass I thought I would ask them - big company bound to let me pay by credit card right?

Err no - they won't take my money AT ALL. I have just been told as the screen isn't broken and I cannot claim through insurance, they don't want my money, no matter what car I have, or how I pay....funny seeing as its their windscreen fitted a couple years ago that is leaking!!!

How pathetic! Looks like I will have to start looking around again!

One tap with a light weight hammer or centre pop...
...get a new screen.
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Old 7th August 2018, 08:58   #25
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Old 7th August 2018, 09:04   #26
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Exactly, I use 4A Windscreens in Newcastle for this type of work, they charged me £40 to remove a screen from a scrapper and fit it to my 75, handy as I don't have glass cover

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I'm thinking of going down that line myself - I've just been looking at quotes to insure my ZTT over here (France), there is a saving of almost 100e p.a. by not having glass cover
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One tap with a light weight hammer or centre pop...
...get a new screen.
Ken.
You are having a giraffe.
A few years back, over 25, I had a Renault Savanna and the bodywork around the front screen rusted, allowing water in.
I decided to take a hammer to the screen and have a new one fitted after tidying up the frame.
Started with a small hammer and progressed up in size. Damned things just kept bouncing off!!
When the screen finally broke there was a huge crater in it because of the force needed.
On other occasions I have had a screen destroyed by a small pebble.
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You are having a giraffe.
A few years back, over 25, I had a Renault Savanna and the bodywork around the front screen rusted, allowing water in.
I decided to take a hammer to the screen and have a new one fitted after tidying up the frame.
Started with a small hammer and progressed up in size. Damned things just kept bouncing off!!
When the screen finally broke there was a huge crater in it because of the force needed.
On other occasions I have had a screen destroyed by a small pebble.

Might take a bit more force in this heat depends how determined you can be.
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