Hi all,
on thursday my windscreen decided to crack after i heard a boom noise(couldn't see what happened).
So i phoned the insurance which gave me the RAC tel number. They asked me to bring the car to them yesterday morning, so i did and left it for 3 hours. When i went back i had to complain about the poor fitment of the rubber bit that goeas arround the windscreen so they fixed that, THe technician then told me that there was 3 rust spots internally which might have caused the cracking, i asked him if he did anything about them and he said that he sanded them down and treated them(i strugled to believe him).
I would have preferrred to have insisted for RAC to come and fix it in my driveway so that i could have supervised their work.
I still cannot understand how the hell rust found its way there(RAC windscreen when i bought the car).

Probably went rusty because of 'poor fitment of rubber bit round windscreen'

Marks DTM Calib wrote on 20. Aug 2006 at 16:20:


Good point Mark.....I watched as blokey at Autoscreens did mine....I thought at the time I hope your being careful with that cutting tool getting old glue off.
He told me that 38% of the strength of that area is due to the windscreen......and they go glue it in! 
Also he reckoned mine is on at least its 3rd screen.....apparently my old one came out too easily for it to be original.

Oh and summat else I remember....i think Ron said when he had a new windscreen.....he had to go out and buy external Ariel for his sat nav.....coz blokey told him you to have heat reflective screens fitted now....these type have silver in them and block the satellite signals. This isnt the case coz i had an ordinary screen put in mine. Autoglass bloke said i can either type fitted.

It will have rusted away in a year