phil0618

I only called one dealer in San Jose, but anyone have any other ideas to acquire it more cheaply?

Sounds like the have coupe windshield which I thought was a all gone and everyone is using the cab glass.

In any event, it is increasingly looking like it's time to get this done, just like to save a few bucks.

Thanks,

Phil

Fox944

the 968 Coupe windshield is NLA iirc. The Cab windshield does not fit, the 944 windshield works but is also slightly shorter. someone correct me if any of this is misinformation

PorscheG96

Yup my last 968 windshield also cost $800 from the dealer in 2007. The 968 and 944 coupe windshields are now one in the same [along with coolant reservoir and many other components]. Unlike the original 968 without the antenna which is NLA, the 944 windshield includes the integrated radio antenna and connector.

JDS968

Apologies if somebody has already mentioned this, but have you checked with your insurance company about coverage for this? Most insurance companies have great coverage for windshield replacement [I think the reasoning is that it prevents other bad, more expensive things from happening down the line...] and of course some states legally require them to cover it; I'd be surprised if the People's Republic of Communistfornia doesn't. I just heard last night that Florida law goes to the extreme of mandating coverage for two free windshield replacements every year, pretty shocking...

ramius665

Have you tried contacting an aftermarket supplier? I replaced the windshield on my 944 Turbo from Safelite for about $500 installed.

FRporscheman

I got my 944 windshield for under $300 installed.

Go to a glass company. I used M.A.Z. in redwood city, if you go there talk to Reza and tell him Arash sent you.

Jason Judd

968 windshield is different than the 944, and is next to impossible to find!

That is one of the reasons I went with Lexan...

If you can find a real 968 windshield, get it! Just make sure it's not a 944 windshield.

ehall

FWIW, I was quoted 700+ from the dealer, for the proper 951 windshield. The body shop got the proper glas for around 450. I live in Florida. It was free. Check Cali's laws on this.

rdhayward

$300 for the glass from a few salvage yards, if you do a little bit of searching.

odurandina

i had a chance at a windshield for 300 dollars a couple of weeks ago. after spending about 3 hours cutting the glass out of this car using a braided wire, and with about 20 minutes to go, but facing the bottom driver's side corner of the glass that was very hard to get the wire around,
(we were forced to really gouge away at the fender), i got the bright idea of just nudging the glass slightly, to see if i could "break" the it free from the NASA-quality epoxy holding it to the car.

that's the right word. "break." cuz that's exactly what i did to the glass.

considering the glass is in 2 thin pieces with a thin film in between, considering that nobody would agree to come out and cut this glass out of the 968 that this gentleman was parting, i should have known better than to waste a day messing around with glass that wasn't already free from the car... and now i see why none of the glass people would agree to take on the work.


the glass installers basically alll told me the same thing, along these lines; "15 year old glass is garbage... too brittle, too weak. that's why they're all breaking in the first place... simply, not worth the aggrivation."


if you have your heart set, however, there's a guy parting 3 cars in Georgia (that everyone hates), there's joe at German Auto Dismantler's, also in Georgia (that everyone also hates). the price for the glass in Georgia is 500. there's also some 15 year old glass for sale in New Jersey on ebay for 600 and change.

guess where i'll be getting glass ? that's right, new glass all the way.

brianh

Replaced mine (coupe) in July 08, but used cab glass.
$683 for the glass from Porsche (1 944 541 011 14). $105 for installation.
Insurance covered all except $200.

JDS968

Is 15 year old glass weak and brittle because laminated auto glass manufacturing has improved? Or because the lamination degrades? Glass itself doesn't age, does it?

FRporscheman

The lamination hardens, the urethane hardens, and even the chips and pits can act as stress risers so the glass can break with slight force. Glass does age but it doesn't get harder or more brittle, it sort of droops/runs and looks wavy.

I have seen old auto glass where the slight factory tinting got sun damaged and looked like a grid of spots, which were polarized (looked different through my sunglasses). Don't know if anyone cares but I guess that's technically a way auto glass can age...

ehall

In polarized glasses, my old Porsche OEM windshield was exactly like that. The new one, through the same lenses, looks uniform.

There's no tech in my opinion, but ssimply experience...and damned if it isn't a HUGE improvement.
That's my anecdotal opinion.
Get good glass, and look over the shoulder of he who inserts it. If not he will insert something else!
Bank on that!

JDS968

That's actually a misconception that arose due to the way glass panes used to be manufactured. To get them somewhat flat, they used some kind of process involving spinning the molten glass out into a disc or something, which got it mostly flat but not perfect...and because the way they thickness variations were somewhat curved, it makes very old glass windows look like they've begun to droop or flow.