new owner of a 2006 crossfire coupe and new to forum. wanting to have some fun over the holiday i went to a yankee game over memorial day weekend and my crossfire received a new york weldome by having the windshield kicked to a million pieces(it never caved in). after finally finding a auto glass place open in brooklyn on a holiday we had to stay an extra 2 days while a "pinkerton" windshield (direct from china) was installed. desperate to get back to RI we had the windshield installed. do any memebers have any feedback on these windshields, what was and how much would the originally manufactured windsheild cost to replace??

 

1st welcome to the forum, 2nd I cant help you with the windshield, 3rd why was your windshield kicked?

 

Welcome aboard, and congrats. Replacing the windshield should not be a big deal. I assume your insurance covered it with no deductuble......

This would never happen in Illinois..

 

thanks for the welcome. i have no idea why it was kicked. we had it parked on a suppossedly "safe" street while we had dinner unless it was an attempted robbery since the back of the convertible top was pulled out of its hold. i'm still a yankee fan but will NEVER drive to new york again.

 

Sorry to hear that, there are plenty of jerks out there.

 

im not sure about the non oem replacements, but i know the oem replacements have a serial number etched into them for theft purposes.

 

thanks for the reply. what does oem mean??

 

original equipment manufacturer, that is, if a chrysler dealer had done the replacement.
Mine had an oem replacement because the windshield was cracked while on the transporter, they ordered a replacement that had a matching serial # to the other glass panels

 

Original Equipment Manufacturer

 

do have glass coverage but just signed with a new company so i didn't want to make a claim. do u think having the windshield with a chinese origin will make a difference in quality

 

I don't know about the Chinese product. I assume they gave you a warranty?

 

It's kind of hard to really tell the quality of the glass until you get into an accident or have someone try to bash through it. Of course, you can also visually look at the glass to see if there any imperfections in how it was manufactured. The other issue will be fitment and this will be VERY easy to tell once it rains or when you wash the car. I had Safelite glass replace the windshield on my previous VW Fox 3 times because the Safelite replacement windshield was not able to seal out water. In the end, they were out 2 Safelite windshields and money for one OEM VW windshield, which was perfect. I ended up paying like 110.00 total.

My recommendation is to make sure you have a warranty with the glass against manufacturer defects and problems with fitment. Then visually inspect the glass for any glaring and blatant defects in the glass itself. Then take it home or to a manual car wash and spray the windshield with water and look for leaks. You could also wait until it rains then go drive the car around.

If everything checks out, then I would say your windshield is probably good to go.

 

Claiming it on your insurance should not be a problem, Forum member "Patpur" is an insurance agent and could explain to you why it wouldn't.
As for the window coming from China, probably the only thing you'll have to be concerned with is its high "LEAD" content. Might come in handy with keeping the Suns "radiation" out.
Welcome to the forum.

 

Wow, I wonder if you had New York plates then maybe they would have left your car alone. I hate haters!

 

I hate NYC.. I would never park my car in the city, and I'm a New Yorker! Nobody has any kind of respect for other people's property there. I've seen people back into cars, move up a couple inches and get out of the car like nothing happened. Breaking a windshield for no reason is new to me though. Are you sure it was kicked in? It's common to have a rock hit the glass, and have a little crack spread across the whole windshield.

 

This reminds me of when a client and I were in Newark and looking for a place to park to take the train into NYC. We pulled into a parking lot and there were five guys totally stripping a Cadi in broad daylight. They weren't even phased by our presence. Needless to say, we found another place to park.

 

Pilkington supply glass to a lot of the Automotive manufacturers. You'll not have any problems with quality. Pilkington - First in Glass if you fancy finding out more!

 

thanks for the site. i checked it out and feel a little more comfortable with my replacement.

 

lol, i've heard alot of stories like yours. everything considered i got off pretty light!!

 

i would have believed it was kicked in if not for the footprints all over the hood and a mud print on the windshield