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[Sir Tigger KC]

I'm always a little bemused when people seem to struggle to get a windscreen fitted to an Omega. 

I needed one on mine a few years ago and dropped it into the local windscreen place at 9am and picked it up at 2pm. Job done, no mess no fuss and it cost £140 as the insurance I had at time didn't have windscreen cover.   

Maybe I was just lucky. 

[Lazydocker]

I'm always a little bemused when people seem to struggle to get a windscreen fitted to an Omega. 

I needed one on mine a few years ago and dropped it into the local windscreen place at 9am and picked it up at 2pm. Job done, no mess no fuss and it cost £140 as the insurance I had at time didn't have windscreen cover.   

Maybe I was just lucky. 

I have a reliable independent that I use... He does all my vans and cars

[Entwood]

Just had mine done by Autowindscreens through insurance (Adrian Flux) .. no bother or trouble at all .. turned up at the house and did the job very well. Before he even started he apologised that he was having to refit the bottom trim but he was unable to source a replacement and rather then cancel he would be removing the old one carefully to reuse. Watched him do exactly that .. great care taken to do no damage. He then used a small whizwheel to clean up the corrosion on the bottom corners and some fancy black primer/rustproofer all around the apperture that had to sit for 30 minutes before he could fit the screen .... cue cup of tea time ! All trims fitted and checked before the screen went in.... all in all a very neat job, has now done 1000 ish miles without any sign of trims becoming loose.

Had a call from the insurers to ask if the work was satisfactory

Just proves it can be done properly

[Marks DTM Calib]

The biggest issue I had is that the plastic fixings that attach to the outer edge of the glass can be one of two sources:

1) Genuine
2) Pattern

And the pattern items are rubbish, if you look closely you can see the tool used to make them is shot and the formed plastic barb which retains the windscreen has lost its definition. The result is a poorly fitting rubber which can come loose.

The genuine parts have much much better definition and hence the rubber is retained correctly meaning there is no need to slap adhesive on that part. 

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Just had mine done by Autowindscreens through insurance (Adrian Flux) .. no bother or trouble at all .. turned up at the house and did the job very well. Before he even started he apologised that he was having to refit the bottom trim but he was unable to source a replacement and rather then cancel he would be removing the old one carefully to reuse. Watched him do exactly that .. great care taken to do no damage. He then used a small whizwheel to clean up the corrosion on the bottom corners and some fancy black primer/rustproofer all around the apperture that had to sit for 30 minutes before he could fit the screen .... cue cup of tea time ! All trims fitted and checked before the screen went in.... all in all a very neat job, has now done 1000 ish miles without any sign of trims becoming loose.

Had a call from the insurers to ask if the work was satisfactory

Just proves it can be done properly

Are you reading this Autoglass??!?!?!?!? Are you reading THIS!? It CAN be done properly!!! And not very difficult, either!

Very glad yours went without a hitch, Mr Entwood 

[05omegav6]

Had no issues at all with the previous two... one National widscreens and more recently Autonoglass... which makes this episode all the more annoying as I know they can do it right...

That said when National did it,  I provided the genuine trims/rubber, which were reused on the penultimate change

[Lazydocker]

Lower rubber was no longer available when I last had a screen (several years back) but when RAC Windscreens did mine it was new upper rubber and all clips (genuine VX). I did have the trim come loose about 8 months later and they returned without question and replaced it again, free of charge.

It can be done right but so many people don't take pride in their work nowadays.