Thread: cracked windshield

Ok so a stupid rock got thrown from a passing truck and cracked my windshield. It already a small crack but now its bad. Question is should I get the windshield designed for the HUD or will it be alright to use a standard windshield? Will my HUD look any different?

Get the HUD glass.

Had a regular one in mine with no issues. Not quite as crisp, but no problem seeing it. However, the HUD windshields aren't as outrageously high priced as they used to be.

I'll be callin around tomorrow getting quotes. What's the average price for the HUD glass.. I bought a new windshield for a 94 bonnevile and it costed a little over $300 installed.

Last one I remember quoting was around $280 installed, with a new molding. Regular one was around $240. This is in Kansas City, prices vary around this great nation of ours.

Part number you want is a DW01289GBN for the HUD, or a DW01288GBN for the regular glass.

I think here its $200.

I just got my windshield cracked bad by hail, the whole driverside had a split down it, and it spread out across the passenger side.

The dealership price for the windshield was right around $200, non HUD.

most glass shops sell used windshields too, i got one for my truck for bout 125 installed some time ago.

1) Like I said, prices vary around the nation.
2) Friborage's 2008 takes a completely different windshield, apples to oranges, but probably still close.
3) Almost no dealership does their own glass, they just sublet it out to a glass shop anyway and mark it up... so you could have probably got it even cheaper.
4) Used windshields can be dangerous and a lot shops won't install them because they can't verify what contaminants (if any) might be on it and degrade the bonding surface and compromise the structural integrity of the car. Not saying I 100% agree with that, just letting you know. I'd put one in my car (if I didn't get new ones for 10% over cost) even though we won't do it where I work, but I'd damn sure prep the sh!t out of it. If you get one from a junkyard, be prepared for some places to turn down the job.
5) Almost all glass shops will play the price game, tell them you got cheaper quotes somewhere else and ask them to match/beat it.

Originally Posted by Abrasive

5) Almost all glass shops will play the price game, tell them you got cheaper quotes somewhere else and ask them to match/beat it.

Watched Safelite or whatever drop their price $75 when my coworker did this. As if they had misquoted it the first time.

Talked a shop down from $330 to $255 installed for the HUD glass.. dropping the ride off Friday for a new windshield. Done work with them before on my last car and they even wash and sweep the car when their all done.. comes with a lifetime air and water leak warranty and a 2 year rock chip warranty..

Yeah mine had a cracck from top to bottom when I first got the car but it wasn't in my line of view so it didn't bother me. Coming home from my dads last night after fixing the sway bar endlinks, an oncoming truck passed and kicked up a rock and created a huge spider web crack..

Originally Posted by SlowNA06

Watched Safelite or whatever drop their price $75 when my coworker did this. As if they had misquoted it the first time.

It's cut throat out there, but business is finally picking back up. For a while, as long as we weren't taking a loss, we would drop as low as we could to get the work just to stay busy. Safelite is a big competitor of ours here in KC. I work for Binswanger and we are also a full line glass shop, whereas Safelite is just auto glass for the most part.

i need a new windshield. where in mass can i get one install cheap?

I don't know if there any neat you but look up the glass doctors. That's who i went through before and going through again. Reasonably priced and good warrantys. They had my first windshield done in under 30mins.