Further to my previous thread regarding having to have a new windscreen after a stone crack and the resultant poor fitting and leaking, I've just got the car back from my nearest Indy.
The car originally had a Sigla screen, which with the rubber covered the bodywork fine. When the fitter came to instal the first replacement he commented that the new Pilkington screen was very slightly smaller, so that with the rubber in place it left some of the old paintwork exposed (plus it keeps trying to curl under the the front chanel). No matter what he tried it would not 'cover' properly. Unfortunately I had a leak so he had to come out again and fitted yet another Pilkington screen which again was slightly smaller than the original Sigla one. I told the windscreen co I was not happy and that I was taking to an independent garage for their comments.
The garage whilst servicing the car had the windscreen main depot fitter out and he agreed that it's still not sealed properly (and I'm still getting water in!) which they will address, plus look into why it's not fitting like the original. Whilst in the garage they had another customer book his car in with a similar windscreen fitting problem - he'd had the roof etc resprayed and a new front screen supplied by Porsche, which again is a Pilkingto screen.
Has anybody else had problems with a new windscreen? What make of screen have you got fitted? The garage think there is a larger screen rubber but were not able to locate it.
Hopefully someone here will have come across this problem. Many thanks.
The car originally had a Sigla screen, which with the rubber covered the bodywork fine. When the fitter came to instal the first replacement he commented that the new Pilkington screen was very slightly smaller, so that with the rubber in place it left some of the old paintwork exposed (plus it keeps trying to curl under the the front chanel). No matter what he tried it would not 'cover' properly. Unfortunately I had a leak so he had to come out again and fitted yet another Pilkington screen which again was slightly smaller than the original Sigla one. I told the windscreen co I was not happy and that I was taking to an independent garage for their comments.
The garage whilst servicing the car had the windscreen main depot fitter out and he agreed that it's still not sealed properly (and I'm still getting water in!) which they will address, plus look into why it's not fitting like the original. Whilst in the garage they had another customer book his car in with a similar windscreen fitting problem - he'd had the roof etc resprayed and a new front screen supplied by Porsche, which again is a Pilkingto screen.
Has anybody else had problems with a new windscreen? What make of screen have you got fitted? The garage think there is a larger screen rubber but were not able to locate it.
Hopefully someone here will have come across this problem. Many thanks.