Windscreen Cracked

[tonupkid]

Glyn, I'd make Audi my first port of call. If Tamworth Audi don't return your calls (which is my depressing experience with them), try Stafford Audi. Hopefully you will then have an Audi screen fitted and all the screen related electrics working when they finish.

Was it perhaps an 'athermic' screen she was asking you about. If so I'm betting yours is one of these. I believe all the 8's had them as standard from 06 on

Athermic, or solar glass, is a metallic coating laminated inside your screen. It reduces heating to you and your car interior on sunny days, I believe the coating is also co-opted for the windscreen heating.

[sarg]

Autoglass did our Mini a couple of years ago, an hour or so after he left I noticed a deep scratch on the bonnet that wasn't there before he started (our Mini is truly mint condition).

Tbf, Autoglass did sort it out and send it for repair, but we now have a car with non-factory paint on the bonnet which may or may not be as good a quality/thickness as when it left the factory.

[Glync]

Oh Hell
I was kept awake last night
now not looking forward to this afternoon at all
Swift cover wont let you "do it yourself" and will only pay £100 or something similar if you do it elsewhere!
This sponge section concerns me as how to I ensure they use the right one? Is it worth a call to them now before anything proceeds?
Think I may have left ot to crack a bit more now

Hi Nick I know Tamwoth Audi are sh1te been they and got the same results as you, I used Stafford for my last service and they were A1 oddly enough they supplied my car when it was new !

Cheers all, I'll go back to biting my finger nails now!
Glyn

[PsYcHe]

Just go with it and tell them they need to make sure it's the right foam (it's the thickness that varies). If it squeaks and rattles, they need to come back and fix it.

[daviesbike]

my last experience with auto glass resulted in me having no windscreen in the car for 2 hours and the poor chap doing it split his fingers wide open to the bone right across all 4 fingers as the massive cheese wire thing had gone taught and as he put his fingers round it to move it, it snapped had to take him up the hospital for stitches, then he had to idiot guide me to re-fit the new wind screen was a D2 at the time mind so was not that bad and it was a genuine Audi windscreen that was heated and he had to cut the tabs off as i had no heated windscreen,

only thing i would say to watch out for is make sure they use all the correct equipment, they are suposed to use a large plastic sheet to cover the inside and also a plastic jimmi down the inside of the wind screen and that stops any scratches on the interior trim and they did not use this on my car and resulted in the above cheese wire cutting into the pillars that goe from the roof to the front dash good job it was not an Alcantara headlining i had

oh and he politely cleaned the blood off my car later on as well !

[Glync]

Quick update
I couldn't rest so rang them
they use Auto Windscreens not Autoglass...don't know if that changes anything
I got through to their technical team and he told me all their fittings are approved by Audi for the A8 and he also suggested I speak to the fitter about the concerns on the sponge issue and see what they use!

I suppose there's not much else I can do untill they arrive, although I may contact the dealer and see if they have the fitting in stock in case as I cannot handle rattles and squeaks in my car
Thanks for the pointers

[chan110]

Originally Posted by Glync

Oh Hell
I was kept awake last night
now not looking forward to this afternoon at all
Swift cover wont let you "do it yourself" and will only pay £100 or something similar if you do it elsewhere!
This sponge section concerns me as how to I ensure they use the right one? Is it worth a call to them now before anything proceeds?
Think I may have left ot to crack a bit more now

Hi Nick I know Tamwoth Audi are sh1te been they and got the same results as you, I used Stafford for my last service and they were A1 oddly enough they supplied my car when it was new !

Cheers all, I'll go back to biting my finger nails now!
Glyn

Poor u!
I am not sure what your windscreen excess is, but mine was £75 and I paid that rather than £700 quoted by BMW - (windscreen cost abt £300) - and yes it is the norm for insurer to pay only a little more than the excess if u go somewhereelse.

It all boiled down to costs for me:
1. A almost better job at BMW (but remember this is not 100% quaranteed)
2. Go to and independent for 1/2 price
3. Or just risk it with autoglass.

At the end, autoglass is probably the largest windscreen company and their work is lifetime(?) guarantee - but don't quote me.

If money is no issue, go to Audi direct.
Or go 50-50 with Goran's recommendation, but try to negotiate for an Audi windscreen.
If money is tight, then argue with swiftcover for an Audi windscreen (I know this would be an uphill battle).
Else, as I said, just make sure u can watch autoglass do the work (maybe even supply your own sponge foam)

Good luck with it and keep us posted!

[daviesbike]

im the same i hate any squeaks and now i have one on the D3 i think its the passenger top mount or something im not to sure but its annoying and only seems to be there when i turn right, left hand turns are fine ?

[47p2]

Audi dealer s don't fit screens in-house, they farm the work out to fitting companies. The only difference going through a dealer is you will have a ''genuine'' Audi screen fitted.

But there again Audi don't make windscreens, so then apart from the Audi logo how ''genuine'' is ''genuine''

[Glync]

I will post an update later
Weather looks ok too as he'll be fitting it outside. My garage is occupied by a couple of restoration projects at the mo which can't be moved

The bloke on the phone seemed fairly confident they use the right gear but then I suppose he would.
I have the Alcantara head lining in mine so will be checking to ensure no damage (or blood ) it's spotless at the mo.
To be honest I don't even like the Audi dealers messing with my car as it rarely comes back the same they always manage to mess something up.

due anytime from 2pm so watch this space, or a mushroom cloud on the horizon over Ashby De La Zouch