thesasquatch

Lee-
Beat the insurance over the head about it!! I've never had to pay more than a $100 deductible for windshields. They always quote you the comprehensive deductible when you first ask. Call your agent and grind him a little and tell him you understood that windshields had a lower deductible. Almost every time (especially with State farm, All State, Geiko, Farmers, etc). Try man! It's worth 4 bills!
It's usually either $50 or $100 for windshields as far as my experience goes. I've never paid more!

Also, for nearly every insurance - if the car is within 2 years old, they HAVE to give you OEM parts (even windshields) DO NOT LET THEM JERK YOU AROUND ON THAT ONE EITHER! And don't even feel badly or apologetic either! Remember that you're payin these schmoes!

-J

bmw1986

Car is georgous!!! How does the car ride?

westcoast550

Great Looking Car !! get that windshield fixed asap ! Then its all new again . Ive been through this before and a chipped window is almost worse than a door ding because you have to look at it everytime you drive your car.

Cheers

Bimmer32

Congrats on the new car.

That must suck to get a star on the very first day and only 2 miles from the house.

Your car looks like it rides higher than one with a sport package? Is it the tires/rims or are the new sport packages ride higher than the older ones?

slickrick

OUCH!!! Just looking at it hurt. I'm sorry that happened to you but the same thing happened to me the following day after I took delivery . I had the dealer put the clear coat bra on because I was driving the car to Virginia to visit my wifes family. I took that precaution and I was happy I did. Somewhere in Deleware I went from paved road doing about 75 miles an hour to unpaved road. I tried to slow down and get to the right lane but the damn trucks flying by threw up the gravel . Needless to say I got hit several times and it ruined my drive to virginia, boy was I pissed. Once there I checked the car and had 2 chips on the damn hood of the car. Man talk about heated, I couldn't speak to anyone for about 2 hours. When I came back home I called the dealer and blamed them because the clear bra was too short in the front and should have been to the end of the head lights. If it was where it was suppose to be the pebbles would have bounced off. It was a fight but they touched up the chips and changed the clear coat to the size I wanted. I also got a concession out of it. I know how you felt, you probably wanted to turn and go after the son of a $%*@. The first incident is always the hardest one to swallow. Good luck and get your car fixed so you can enjoy it.

tibby

Congrat on the new car...And I'm trully sorry to hear about the windshiel...Thing is ...when I took mine from dealer in April same thing happend to me on the highway...First was a very vrey small hole and then after a day of staying in the sun and a cool night , I found it exactly like yours...with an one foot crack on it !!!

I think also the windshield was cracking too easily, don't you think? Anyway it took 3 hours and some Insurance paperworks to replace it... Now is new again

BTW Lee, is also the same colour...

EBMCS03

Congrats lee and I'm sorry to hear about your windshield... totally sucks... good luck with everything though.


Interesting... I had that happen on my MINI before... I actually had 3 windshields on that car... piss me off but my insurance company said it's the same deductible as anything else too... wouldnt budge lower than my $500 deductible... But they will pay for filling the windshield up to $50. woopie doo...

Well I hope I never need another windshield replaced due to a rock chip.

Yoko

Congrats on the new car.
Take it easy on her.
I want the rims!!!
Hunt the mustang!!!
Anyway, where is NM? (New Mexico?)

lee1224

Damn Dealer!!!!!!

Brought my car to dealer for new glass Tuesday 7/31/07 only to be told that the glass was on back order. Not too happy now, asked service manager, couldn't they have called me to notify me that glass was not in. His response "oh. we just found out rioght now". Bullshi.........Was told that it should be here Wednesday, car should be ready for pick up saturday 8/4. Left car at dealer, didn't make sense to drive her back home since i have to drive almost 80 miles one way to dealer. Called dealer this afternoon (friday), guess what? Glass still not here. Shi....... that sucks i told service manager. Only had the car for a week, now its gonna sit at dealer for two weeks, that really sux. Now telling me that was released today from supplier, dealer should have by next wednesday. So i can expect car to be ready by weekend. It better be ready or his boss better starting apologizing. As i was reading one of the other post today, i notice that when you have the Ipod/usb option, a cable is included. When i picked up my car, service manager says that it did not include cable. Buy one at Best Buy for $25 he says. I talked to sales rep today and told him about cable, he says it should be included and will provide one. Those of you who did not get your cable, the dealer owe you one. The waiting game starts again for me to pick up my car. Never a dull moment in life.

Lee

DrLev99

I've had my car to the dealer 4 times since purchasing in May. The first time, I brought it in for an alignment and a wheel balance, dropped it off and waited for the phone call to tell me it was done. Well, 5pm rolled around with no call, so I called them. The service guy says, "Oh, we haven't done anything to your car....the alignment machine has been broken for 2 days." I almost blew a gasket! Talk about "could've called me to tell me" or at least told me when I dropped it off. And on the 3 subsequent drop-offs, they've never once called me to tell me the car was done. I always have to call them an hour before they close. Some dealers just suck! Good luck with that glass of yours.