OPC corrosion warranty

[rav]

I am due to purchase a 1996 (Vario-ram) 993 shortly. I have had the car inspected by a well known independant specialist near to the Reading area, as this is my first 911. The report showed some minor problems, but one comment was surprising.
There is a small amount of corrosion around the front windscreen and rear screen. They told me that this would be repairable by a OPC under the corrosion lifetime warranty operated by Porsche.
Does anyone have experience of corrosion around the screens? and if so did you approach a OPC and what results did you acheive?
Please let me know.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Would it still be covered if the rust had been the result of badly replaced screens?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

...only reason I ask is that another marque tried to wriggle out of a similar claim for a similar reason

[cyberface]

Check if the screen is delaminating (cloudiness) around the bottom corner edges as well - if not then it's probably a replacement screen and the installation wasn't up to par, allowing water ingress.

Many 993s suffer from creaky windscreens due to the design, and apparently replacement is tricky and has to be done properly. I'd be wary of a car that's needed a new screen but the installation was botched.

This will be an issue for me at some point - I have two stone chips that are slowly turning into starbursts on my windscreen and they will, no doubt, eventually fail the MOT... Currently my windscreen doesn't squeak but I'm loath to change it until really necessary since I may end up worse than I started!

Do check the rest of the car if there's visible corrosion - my 993 is a 1994 model, hardly cosseted, but the only rust anywhere was on the rear valance supports, which I've had replaced. I'd not expect rust on a 993 unless something's got past the galvanisation or drainage has been blocked for long periods (i.e. poor servicing, or damage and poor repair).

[polarexpress]

What corrosion lifetime warranty? AFAIK, the bodywork corrosion warranty is only upto a max of 10 years on the 993 (someone may want to correct me on this). For the warranty to be in place, you will need to check that the warranty book has been stamped religiously under the bodywork section...

[aceparts_com]

I had a tiny bubble under the paint under the windscreen rubber and porsche agreed to do it under warranty. Most surprising as the bodywork book had not been stamped and it had a break in the service history. Job cost them £600.

[meldrewlives]

In my experience Porsche GB are capricious in the way they interpret this warranty. I buy my cars new and for cash - they've lost me as a customer for life.

[cyrus1971]

if it is free tell the seller to fix it and then buy the car.

C

[tertius]

When I got my car it had a small amount of corrosion around the screen just in front of the A-pillar. At the time my car was less than 10 years old and had been in the OPC network all its life, all the service stamps were there, and all except one of the corrosion warranty stamps were present (that at 7 years was missing, years 8 and 9 were present).

I took it to my nearest OPC who looked at it the car, did not look at the servce book or registration, and said straight out it wouldn't be fixed under warranty. When I asked why they said it was too old. When I pointed out that it was still under 10 years old, they hummed and hah'd and said they would refer the claim and let me know.

After 3 weeks i got a quote that started "Please find enclosed our quote to repair the accident damage to your car ..." and ended with a number not unadjacent to 4 grand.

There was no accident to repair and 4K seemed a trifle steep to me, so I haven't been back.

Of course 3 weeks later I did have an accident in it and the corrosion got fixed (by an indie) when the accident repair was done. Had that not been the case I'd have pursued Porsche a bit more enthusiastically.

Also worth adding that when the accident repair was done both wings came off, and there was significant corrosion where the outer and inner wings meet - from the outside it looked absolutely perfect - so even if you can't see any corrosion I wouldn't assume that you don't have any.

Dan