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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I think its very much pot luck / hit & miss. Ive been putting off getting my screen replaced due to the potential for hassle.

[johnnydog]

I've had a windscreen replaced by auto glass that had both auto lights and wipers with no problems. But I may have just got a competent fitter.

Auto lights and wipers are a relatively simple task being a sensor (as you know) part of the mirror base and is a relatively simple job to refit as there is already the mounting fitted on a new screen for the mirror unit to basically clip on to.
It is the associated systems that need recalibrating that Autoglass cannot do and the vehicle has to go to a main dealer.

[ronnyd]

Why are things getting so complicated? 

[BazaJT]

Because everyone "needs" auto lights and wipers as they can't tell when it's getting dark or raining and if they can it saves the hard work of flicking a switch to turn them on themselves.

[ronnyd]

Because everyone "needs" auto lights and wipers as they can't tell when it's getting dark or raining and if they can it saves the hard work of flicking a switch to turn them on themselves.

Don,t even mention the good old days when drivers, and passengers, had the hard task of winding the windows up and down with a thing called a handle. 

[BazaJT]

O.K. I won't mention keep fit windows What about the pneumatic wipers that [I think] Ford were the last to ditch,that went faster the lower the engine revs? or the cars that came with a starting handle along with the crappy jack and wheelbrace as part of the standard "toolkit"?

[Nick W]

Why are things getting so complicated? 

because it's more profitable to sell gimmicks than try to persuade your customers to pay more for a car on which you've fixed your previous dodgy engineering.


It won't be long before you can buy an Audi that has a lentil yoghurt maker as an option.

[ronnyd]

O.K. I won't mention keep fit windows What about the pneumatic wipers that [I think] Ford were the last to ditch,that went faster the lower the engine revs? or the cars that came with a starting handle along with the crappy jack and wheelbrace as part of the standard "toolkit"?

Had a 100e van with those on. Bloody useless things.