Which is cheaper?

[Simon Mason]

Smash my windscreen and get a free one from Autoglass or spend 2 hours with a drill pad and Cerium Oxide?

[whisky-dave]

How do you get a free one from Autoglass ?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Get a 'free' one from Autoglass and then spend the next few months trying to get the leaks sorted. You know it makes sense.

BTW, have you checked your insurance policy recently?

[Simon Mason]

Bundled with fully comp.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

And no excess?

[Simon Mason]

From the end to the beginning.

Car window and windscreen cover comes as standard on our Hastings Direct an d Hastings Premier comprehensive policies. There's no cover for windscreen repairs or replacement under our Hastings Essential policy, but you have th e choice of buying windscreen cover as an optional extra.

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[tim...]

you've got windscreen cover with your insurance with zero excess

tell me where?

nowadays it next to impossible to find a zero excess if you accept the repair (the last cost me 20 quid and was/is frigging awful)

tim

[Simon Mason]

[Bob Minchin]

Unless I missed it, that link says nothing about if there is an excess on windscreen cover or not. Not that I disbelieve you but it is very unusual not to have an excess introduced to help resolve your original dilemma. Used to be £40 but I think £70 is more like the norm.

[tabbypurr]

and pay higher premiums later

it would shatter

NT

[Reentrant]

says to see your policy document for the excess. When I was with Hastings last year it was £75.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

A few years ago the wife's car was bumped by a wagon. The car was legally parked, she was not even in the car. Hastings Direct were utterly useless, I actually flattened the battery in the cordless phone whilst in the call queue. Never again!

[Simon Mason]

In 2010, the windscreen cracked due to the cold and had to be replaced - I had the same policy and it cost me nothing.

[alan_m]

Just make sure that there is no glass excess on your policy

[Dave Plowman (News)]

As I said earlier. Have you checked your policy recently?

[Simon Mason]

That's odd - here it is after an hour.

[Simon Mason]

en-cover.shtml

I refer you to my answer at 1439 UTC.

[Reentrant]

Please post a link to an image of your current policy schedule showing the windscreen excess is zero.

[Tim Streater]

And I refer you to mine posted in 1439 BC.

[newshound]

Cerium oxide, now that you have declared publically that you are thinking about committing fraud (and putting the cost of insurance up for all the rest of us, even if only by a tiny bit).