Labour cost to replace a windscreen.

Don't know offhand, but to judge from the price I got on a fitted second-hand screen a few years ago (IIRC a fifth of the cost for a new screen from the most widely advertised franchise) it should not be too bad.

Is this a modern, glued-in one, or an old fashioned rubber gasket type. I've done the latter myself, not too difficult if you know the string trick.

Always seemed to me that the glued in type would be easy enough if you did some googling on adhesives.

Sadly, I can't DIY as the car isn't here.

I have fitted the type with the rubber seal myself before, though. But never a glued in one like this.

you just spludge the glue around the hole and drop the screen in, a trained monkey could do it. Just phone your local screen place and they will send one round.

With hindsight it would have made more sense to just smash out the old screen. But my chap said it might come out intact, and it was OK condition wise. Hence using someone skilled at working on them. That was the theory.

Have got the car back and it looks to be a super job. But cost double my guess. All down to the windscreen guy. The cost for repair and painting the body behind the screen pretty well what I expected.

But is was a job needing doing. The windscreen surround panel is one of the few you can't easily get new. Luckily, it wasn't too bad.