Fecking hate pikeys!

Pikey bastards.

Get the yellow pages out, or try a scrapper? Think yourself lucky you don'r have a fancy model 206, front windscreen is part that is only fitted by the dealer and "Is £800 thank you sir". :)

Have a look in the yellow pages for someone offering "trade prices to all" - there was one in the Reading YP last time I checked, not much good to you though. Anyway, using that guy it cost £60 all in for a new windscreen on t'Astra.

Peter

-- "Diamonds are what I really need - think I'll rob a store, escape the law, and live in Italy. Lately, my luck has been so bad, you know the roulette wheel, it's a crooked deal, I'm losing all I had."

Good stuff will check the YP out. RAC have quoted £120, although they only charged my housemate £85 for his 309.

And to Dan, not really interested in going to a scrappie. Would rather pay the money and get a nice new one, thats fitted properly.

Cheeky, isn't the 205 the same windscreen as the 309?

I keep wondering about windscreen replacement as a service item; the difference in night driving between my stone=flecked (you know, the tiny marks from gritters and stuff) Supra and new Beetle is so marked. Sadly the Supra is a bonded one, so presumably expensive to replace and not necessarily going to be done right.

Richard

We have a cpl of 205's i'll ask my dad but don't get your hopes up just yet lad.

I once saw a porche in manchester while I was running to the train station after a chilli's gig parked with a huge scratch where some one had key'ed it, I felt sorry for him for a sec then I realised the fat bastard prolly has more than enough money to repair it :P

Oh and my bro's ex GF kicked in his car lol.

Where was it when it was smacked up, i would of thought u could hear that going on!?

Aren't they all bonded these days? FWIW, I rolled my Ka and it had a replacement windscreen. I watched the bloke swap it on my driveway, and it looked something difficult to get wrong. The windscreen didn't cave in, so I presume it was alright.

Easily sorted with an airgun and hammer when no-one's looking ;-)

Well i live in a little cul-de-sac in a fairly posh area (although we have brought that down a bit :)). When my GF came in saturday with the car there was a load of people round so she stuck her car out on the main road (about

As i said elsewhere i dont really want a second hand one. Would rather have a nice new one, since as Richard says it will also make a fair bit of difference to visibility.

I figured a man of your skills would be able to fit a windscreen :D

Well my GF's parents have offered to pay, so i certainly cant be bothered now :)

"Carl Gibbs" wrote

No cheap windscreen excess on your policy?

"fishman" offered us this on a plate:

Heh, I bet hes got Pikey TPFT or TPO insurance. (c: Isn't it mostly fully comp policies that do cheap windscreens?

Douglas

Prolly.

Mine is Fully Comp and has windscreen cover. If they repair the windscreen it is free (had that done when a cra in front flipped something nasty up at me) and iirc its £60 for replacement nowadays.

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That's about what my replacement windscreen cost me.

Quote for mine was in the hundreds when I had it repaired rather than replaced, but then I guess they just go mad when it is insurance company paying :-/

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Yes the car does have TPFT as fully comp is not viable on cheap cars. If it gets broken i either fix it, or the decent stuff gets taken off and the rest gets binned. Unfortunately i dont think the £50 windscreen replacement option was taken.

Have you tried ?

My past three cars, have all had minimal difference between the quote for third-party and fully-comp - it makes no sense to go for third-party if you're only saving a few tens of pounds.

Fully comp with silly excess was much cheaper than TPFT for me. It amounts to the same thing as far as I'm concerned, except I get a £60 windscreen and legal cover and stuff.

Hurrah

Douglas

Douglas

On my Carlton it was actually cheaper FC with excesses maxed out than TPFT. I suppose that's because with a big excess you're almost certainly not going to claim for damage to your own car, and even if you do, it'll cost them next to f*ck all, so the risk is virtually the same as TPFT. That'd be a valid reason why it might be the same cost - as to why it's cheaper - well maybe they view the fact that you're offering a voluntary excess means that you're more confident that you won't crash, and are going to be more careful as it'd cost you more. Or something.

Peter

-- "Diamonds are what I really need - think I'll rob a store, escape the law, and live in Italy. Lately, my luck has been so bad, you know the roulette wheel, it's a crooked deal, I'm losing all I had."