Autoglass Windscreen Replacement

[WindyMiller67]

My 997 had exactly the same problem with the screen at around 45k miles. I didn't notice it when I viewed the car in the summertime - it wasn't until later in the year, with the the low sun in the evenings that I noticed how bad it was. Without knowing the car's history from day 1 I presumed one of the previous owners had driven through a sandstorm! It would seem that it's normal road debris?

[drmark]

Autoglass has just done mine. Superb job. Can't tell it has been replaced. But guess it's all down to the fitter - as always.

[TheAnimal]

Drop Glassman / Paul a line at Glasstec. He did my RS60 and CLS AMG windscreens and his attention to detail is amazing. For the CLS he sourced the only OEM screen left in the country.

Great guy too!

http://www.glasstecauto.co.uk/

[VPD255M]

+1 for Glassman Paul

[nelsls]

+1 for Glassman. He did a great job on my Boxster windscreen. Takes care and pride in his work. Highly recommended.

[V8KSN]

[miroku]

Just had my 981 Cayman screen replaced by Autoglass.
After initially turning up with the wrong screen the job was carried out at a time to suit me and the fitter was excellent.
Frankly impressed with the service.

[Glassman]

petej said:

I'm at this stage right now. Replacement screen by Autoglass. Seal is a poor fit at top and side adjacent to the GPS aerial. Wait 2 weeks for glass to be reordered and an experienced fitter to be available. Screen comes out of the van with the seal pre installed. Where the GPS aerial wires are soldered onto the glass, the connection protrudes beyond the edge of the glass thereby forcing the seal out of position. Fitter sends off for a replacement seal. This arrives and is poor quality with a profile that will make the gap worse. Calls office and asks manager to get a genuine glass and seal ordered. manager says no. Fitter says he's not gonna fit another non genuine screen as the quality is not good enough. Vans loads up and leaves. Now waiting for a call to let me know what happens next.

Glassman.. If you see this, have you come across this problem on 987 997 before?

Edited by petej on Wednesday 25th February 19:49

For as long as I have been fitting these windscreens, no; for as long as I have been fitting OE Porsche windscreens: no, and even when I have fitted non OE branded Porsche windscreens: no.

TBH, I'm a bit confused with the solder thing? All tags are ribbon cables which are sandwiched between the two layers of glass with the PVB layer. Do you mean the actual ribbon is causing a slight bulge in the trim?

Can you capture an image of it?

If you're within reach/somewhere on my travels, I'm happy to come and have a cuppa and a chat

[Glassman]

Ian_UK1 said:

Pugley said:

.....my insurance company (LV) refused to pay more than £100 to any other company than Autoglass.....

Can't agree more how infuriating this is. As long as the alternative fitter matched the Autoglass price, WTF has the insurer to lose? The terms crook, bandit and rip-off merchant all come to mind (and some other unprintable, choice comments)!

I realise this is an old post, but, just for anyone else who might be heading the same way, I have had a long exchange with LV over this and I have quite a long thread of email correspondence getting to the bottom of it.

The £100 limit is wrong, and should not be taken seriously; half of it is ignorance (a lot of them genuinely have no idea wtf is going on, and are just following an instruction) and the other half - IMPO - smacks of collusion. This applies to a lot of policies out there, but in all cases, ask the question before inception - ask explicitly - what does 'unlimited windscreen cover' actually mean?

[fastbikes76]

Autoglass are hit and miss.

I have had two screens in my van in quick succession and the first bloke cut through my phone kit wires running up the A pillar. That wasn't a big issue..if he had told me ! Instead he taped the ends up and stuff the wires down in the depths somewhere and kept quiet. Immediately after the 2 hour period I left to do a Job and phoned the customer as I was leaving. I soon discovered I had no mic for the phone kit. Some investigation revealed what the sneaky so and so had done

That screen got damaged about 4 weeks later and had another chap come out to replace it, and done a spot on job without any issues at all.