Smash my windscreen and get a free one from Autoglass or spend 2 hours with a drill pad and Cerium Oxide?
Which is cheaper?
Sep 30, 2016
38 Replies
How do you get a free one from Autoglass ?
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?
Bundled with fully comp.
And no excess?
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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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
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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.
and pay higher premiums later
it would shatter
NT
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says to see your policy document for the excess. When I was with Hastings last year it was £75.
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!
In 2010, the windscreen cracked due to the cold and had to be replaced - I had the same policy and it cost me nothing.
Just make sure that there is no glass excess on your policy
As I said earlier. Have you checked your policy recently?
That's odd - here it is after an hour.
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I refer you to my answer at 1439 UTC.
Please post a link to an image of your current policy schedule showing the windscreen excess is zero.
And I refer you to mine posted in 1439 BC.
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).
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