Arrrghhh! Stone scratch...

[Vladimir]

Driving along behind a lorry just now and a stone hopped up into the windscreen - only a little one and it didn't hit the windscreen hard enough to chip it - but it stayed there, bouncing up and down on the wiper; rather distracting. So eventually I stuck the wiper on - cue excruciating noise as it dragged the stone across the windscreen and left a nice arch shaped scratch.

Anyone know how much a windscreen is for an E91?! It's taken a bit of a hammering recently.

[xRIEx]

Vladimir said:

Driving along behind a lorry just now and a stone hopped up into the windscreen - only a little one and it didn't hit the windscreen hard enough to chip it - but it stayed there, bouncing up and down on the wiper; rather distracting. So eventually I stuck the wiper on - cue excruciating noise as it dragged the stone across the windscreen and left a nice arch shaped scratch.

Anyone know how much a windscreen is for an E91?! It's taken a bit of a hammering recently.

£70.

[Vladimir]

xRIEx said:

£70.

Is that all?!

[thecremeegg]

Insurance

[pimpin gimp]

that's usually what windscreen replacement costs under insurance.

[Vladimir]

The trouble is, it's peppered with chips but all are very small with no sign of cracking. Also slightly worried that a replacement world stuff up the auto wipers and up the premium (it's still a claim!).

[BigDaveTheMighty]

Last time I had a replacement windscreen on the insurance (Direct Line) it cost £75.00 and didn't make a blind bit of difference to my NCB or the premium.

[skene]

They get a windscreen which will have the auto wipers sensor etc. it may be a claim and mine does appear on my insurance yes. But when they asked if I had any claims and replied a windscreen, the guy just said oh we don't care about them.

With regards to it not being chipped/cracked yet, do you have any kids who like throwing stones? Just make sure they don't miss

[xRIEx]

Vladimir said:

Also slightly worried that a replacement world stuff up the auto wipers and up the premium (it's still a claim!).

Windscreen claims don't affect NCB.

When I worked at a broker, a client had a windscreen claim on some flavour of JDM Impreza - windscreen had to be specially imported, total bill came to about £3.5K; insurers argued it didn't come under the Glass section, but eventually they caved and stood by it, no effect on NCB.