A8 "break in" review

[ulfilias]

Hi Guys,

I guess it depends on your definition of Laminated & Double Glazed.

You can have single pane laminated glass, usualy for shatter resistance. The 'sticky backed plastic' layer is there to stop it all falling apart for safty.

Double glazing certainly has various materials between it, usualy a blend of gasses, but i don't see why having a film layer in the void stops it being double glazed. The glass is definately two panes and the change of density between them is what slows the sound penitration.

Either way, i think they are excelent. They stop noise and make the car a much more impenitrable place for burglers and for safety

[E.L.M.O]

google defined Double glazed as:

Definitions of Double glazed on the Web:

* When multiple glass panes or "lites" are assembled into units, they are commonly referred to as insulated glass, double glazing, Double Glazed Units (UK and Europe) or Insulating Glass Units (IGU) (North America and Australia).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_glazed

* Two panes of window glass or other transparent material.
resnet.us/lender/lhandbook/glossary.htm

So it guess as it does have two paines of glass it is double glazed?

[PsYcHe]

Definitely double glazed on the side windows if you have the ones that appear to be 2 panes stuck together (I think it was only 2.8s that didn't come with it as standard).

[Dezzy]

I can't view the video untill i get home at the wk-end cause it's blocked here, but i have seen footage of someone hitting a D2 side window with a hammer maybe 5th gear or something. Is that the vid?

Twin pane, double glazed or laminated it's good that said mine has started to delaminate in a couple places near the top.

4KC = Side and rear windows in heat-insulatingglass
4KV = Side and rear windows in laminated glasswith metal layer

Don't know if these are the correct codes for D2 i don't have my car this week to have a look

[jayzee]

Double glazed = 2 paynes of glass with an air gap between them.

Laminated = 2 paynes of glass which are bonded together with no gap.

So are your windcreens double glazed then?



ETA - Look at the 7 series LWB; that has double glazing i.e. with a gap, and not disimilar to the type found on houses.

Range Rover in 2005 went to laminated side glass, and in 2007, this was changed to double glazing.

here is what double glazing looks like on a car - much thicker due to the air gap.

[E.L.M.O]

Originally Posted by jayzee

Double glazed = 2 paynes of glass with an air gap between them.
Laminated = 2 paynes of glass which are bonded together with no gap.

So are your windcreens double glazed then?

See thats what I thought, but Like I said google say:

Originally Posted by E.L.M.O

google defined Double glazed as:

Definitions of Double glazed on the Web:

* When multiple glass panes or "lites" are assembled into units, they are commonly referred to as insulated glass, double glazing, Double Glazed Units (UK and Europe) or Insulating Glass Units (IGU) (North America and Australia).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_glazed

* Two panes of window glass or other transparent material.
resnet.us/lender/lhandbook/glossary.htm

So it guess as it does have two paines of glass it is double glazed?

[PsYcHe]

Audi call it double glazed