Windscreen on a 997

[Roundm]

Hi

So I was driving (slowly) down a lane on Friday and a truck lobbed a stone off its rear wheel and I watched it lazily arc through the air until it struck the screen just infront of the driver - leaving a 2inch crack. Doh!!!

So I ring auto glass - and am quoted almost £2000 to replace the screen on my 2009 997. I know I can claim on my insurance to get this lowered but is that a reasonable price for a windscreen on a 997? It seems an awful lot (my last screen replacement was on a 07 merc clk and that was about £300 if I remember right). Anyone know of a recent price for a 997 windscreen?

TIA

[Paynewright]

Just ring your insurance co - they will have agreed rates etc

There has been lots of debate on whether the supplied screens are OEM or not (can of worms opened!)

[C4ME]

I don't know the price of a 997 screen but I recently suffered the same fate on my 993 and on the bill the OEM screen price from Porsche was just under £1000.

[Roundm]

Paynewright - I know through the insurance I don’t see the cost explicitly - but the only place any business gets funds is from its customers and so I want to check they are not getting ripped off as ultimately I will be expected to pay!

Oh and the 2k wasn’t for Porsche glass - it was ‘oem equivalent’ !

[Paynewright]

I dont get it - if you have windscreen cover with you policy you just pay the excess?

[Roundm]

Somewhere they make you pay. They don’t have a magic money tree to fund stuff from. The only place they get money is from customers. So I want to do due dilligence and I also thought to ask what others have been quoted or paid.

I was wondering to what degree there is a racket going on - if everyone uses insurance to pay then there is a disconnect between the market forces and the prices. This becomes an easy way to skew the market and ultimately disadvantage the consumer.

I’m also hoping to identify the difference in cost between the oem equivalent glass and Porsche branded glass

[Paynewright]

We all pay a little bit more for windscreen cover and the fact we dont all break one covers the cost of those that do - thats how insurance works?

The insurance companies will have negotiated rates with the windscreen companies (as they do for body repairs).

[Boardingnath]

I claimed my cracked windscreen on insurance and it had no impact on following years premium.

[C4ME]

Roundm said:

Somewhere they make you pay. They don’t have a magic money tree to fund stuff from. The only place they get money is from customers. So I want to do due dilligence and I also thought to ask what others have been quoted or paid.

I was wondering to what degree there is a racket going on - if everyone uses insurance to pay then there is a disconnect between the market forces and the prices. This becomes an easy way to skew the market and ultimately disadvantage the consumer.

I’m also hoping to identify the difference in cost between the oem equivalent glass and Porsche branded glass

You are probably over thinking things as the insurance industry has people ensuring the suppliers of fitting services are giving them value for money. Also the price Autoglass have quoted you will be more than the insurance company will have to pay. Just to fully round out the comparison I gave you earlier I went back and looked at the invoice for the work I had done and I was a little high before. Although it is a 993 it is still also a bonded screen and should be similar. 997 screen will be larger so likely slightly more expensive. The price of the screen from the OPC to my specialist was £860 inc VAT. Fitting at the specialist was £215 inc VAT. Then there were some small sundries such as the bonding mastic, rubbers etc which were less than £100. Screen supplied by OPC was Pilkington made in Germany by the way.

Phone up your local OPC parts department and ask them the price of a new 997 screen if you want to know the Porsche price.

[anonymous-user]

As a lot of insurance companies get an OEM equivalent screen fitted, does the impact the Porsche extended warranty?

[av185]

Take the car to your OPC to sort then you will get a proper OEM screen.

[Carlson W6]

There is only one person i would trust to replace a windscreen on a 911.

That is Paul Glassman. He is the very best.

www.glasstecauto.co.uk

07974 216953.

Research him, you won't find anything but great reviews. He is passionate about
his work.

[Shaw Tarse]

Carlson W6 said:

There is only one person i would trust to replace a windscreen on a 911.

That is Paul Glassman. He is the very best.

www.glasstecauto.co.uk

07974 216953.

Research him, you won't find anything but great reviews. He is passionate about
his work.

PHer Glassman

[blueg33]

Carlson W6 said:

There is only one person i would trust to replace a windscreen on a 911.

That is Paul Glassman. He is the very best.

www.glasstecauto.co.uk

07974 216953.

Research him, you won't find anything but great reviews. He is passionate about
his work.

He certainly isn't passionate about websites

[Carlson W6]

blueg33 said:

He certainly isn't passionate about websites

Make of that what you will. While thinking about it, consider this- Hendon Way Motors have a very nice website.

[blueg33]

Carlson W6 said:

blueg33 said:

He certainly isn't passionate about websites

Make of that what you will. While thinking about it, consider this- Hendon Way Motors have a very nice website.

Indeed hence the smiley. I was trying to find his location.

[Australiam]

Glassman did my 997. Not much cheaper than the Porsche dealer price, but he was excellent. He came a long way to me, and his workmanship was first class. Whereas I felt with the dealer, I had no control over whether I got an expert, or trainee fitter. I would definitely use him again!

[Magnum 475]

Had similar last year on my 987.

Autoglass quote was £1495.

AutoWindscreens came in at £595.

I phone my insurance company with both numbers, and they picked Autoglass.

[Roundm]

Thanks all.

I called my opc and the 997 screen was 496 +vat and about £200 fitting. Bonding and a few other bits were around £100 giving a total of about £970.

So that’s half the auto glass price for a original screen - why would anyone use anything else?

And I rang Aviva and they are not interested. Very odd. But as they are my insurer I have little alternative as they have subcontracted all conversations about glass claims to auto glass!

I don’t like to see any business not caring this way as it just seems negligent

[Paynewright]

So will they let you use your preferred option? I’d still be surprised if the insurers pay anywhere near the price you were quoted. If they insist on going to their chosen vendor then you need to either specify original glass (I’ve read the Porsche glass has additional etched markings somewhere) or be prepared to pay the difference in cost.

We had an no fault accident repair done on our family car at our insurers ‘chosen’ bodyshop - repair was OK but managed to cover the car in swirl marks which I’d meticulously avoided since purchasing the car from new!