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Don't put it through insurance and for god's sake don't use Autoglass! You can do it yourself for less than the insurance excess, or a local garage will fit a used screen for you in 20 mins.
In my experience, Autoglass charge 3-4 times more than local windscreen companies will do it for. If you ring around and tell them it's not going through your insurance, often you can get a new screen fitted for not much more than the excess would be. I've never had glass cover and I've never paid more than £130 for a windscreen fitted.
Busta wrote: I've never had glass cover and I've never paid more than £130 for a windscreen fitted.
You're lucky then, I've fitted screens where the cost price of the glass to the company has been 10x that. Unfortunately I'm an ex-fitter and due my insurance company not adding glass cover when I asked for it had pay cash for my 307 and that cost £300 to have done.
Busta wrote: I've never had glass cover and I've never paid more than £130 for a windscreen fitted.
You're lucky then, I've fitted screens where the cost price of the glass to the company has been 10x that. Unfortunately I'm an ex-fitter and due my insurance company not adding glass cover when I asked for it had pay cash for my 307 and that cost £300 to have done.
I imagine that £1300 screen was on something fairly exotic?
Not particularly, just an E class Mercedes with all toys. Most of the newer typical german vehicles were in the 300-700 pound mark and alot of the French cars weren't far behind. Fords and vauxhalls weren't to bad until you got to the ones with loads of toys.
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