Windscreen prices

fitter2000

The price they quoted you is nowhere near the price the insurance company would have been charged.

Had the same issues with a windscreen for an import car (bronze tint) big companies wanted huge amount of money 'because it was an import' some even tried to tell me the shape was different to UK spec

Some import models may look the same but do indeed have different shape/size windscreens (not saying yours did but it might well have a different tint)

Neil

colino

Sorry, forgot your 48 hour part. That delay would have vanished if you had phoned, thanked them but told them you were getting the job done elsewhere today.
While swamping the market (and putting rivals out of business through cut throat pricing) we are at a national level left with a handful of players. By their smothering techniques they have not only taken the administration of the system away from the insurance companies (an extra 50p saved by them) they have now settled the market into a state where they think they dictate prices and speed of response. The nationals have all tried to move to a system of the customer taking it to them at ever decreasing "central locations" and reducing mobile fitters (who are more expensive and fit less glass in a day). This was once excused by the then new bonded windscreens needing 24-48 hours to cure proerly, but technology has zipped past that.

fitter2000

colino wrote: »

Sorry, forgot your 48 hour part. That delay would have vanished if you had phoned, thanked them but told them you were getting the job done elsewhere today.
While swamping the market (and putting rivals out of business through cut throat pricing) we are at a national level left with a handful of players. By their smothering techniques they have not only taken the administration of the system away from the insurance companies (an extra 50p saved by them) they have now settled the market into a state where they think they dictate prices and speed of response. The nationals have all tried to move to a system of the customer taking it to them at ever decreasing "central locations" and reducing mobile fitters (who are more expensive and fit less glass in a day). This was once excused by the then new bonded windscreens needing 24-48 hours to cure proerly, but technology has zipped past that.

You sound like a fitter.