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Offline seanng

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Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« on: 22 January 2018, 13:49 »
Small chip/crack in my one month old climate windscreen plus other tiny marks.

I have never had a chip in 9 years of car ownership, so I was not pleased to see this happen. Fortunately, it was small enough and in a location where a repair could be done, but I am waiting out for more damage before a full replacement on the insurance.

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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #1 on: 22 January 2018, 13:54 »
Small chip/crack in my one month old climate windscreen plus other tiny marks.

I have never had a chip in 9 years of car ownership, so I was not pleased to see this happen. Fortunately, it was small enough and in a location where a repair could be done, but I am waiting out for more damage before a full replacement on the insurance.

I've had one chip/crack repaired and have numerous smaller chips not to mention all the paint chips on the bumper, bonnet and edge of the roof! I had nothing like that on my Audi which I owned for 12 years and my driving habits haven't changed. Very odd :rolleyes:
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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #2 on: 22 January 2018, 14:04 »
Small chip/crack in my one month old climate windscreen plus other tiny marks.

I have never had a chip in 9 years of car ownership, so I was not pleased to see this happen. Fortunately, it was small enough and in a location where a repair could be done, but I am waiting out for more damage before a full replacement on the insurance.

I've had one chip/crack repaired and have numerous smaller chips not to mention all the paint chips on the bumper, bonnet and edge of the roof! I had nothing like that on my Audi which I owned for 12 years and my driving habits haven't changed. Very odd :rolleyes:

I would be more then happy to have a thicker, heavy windscreen and sacrifice a couple of mph off the 155 top speed  :grin:

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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #3 on: 22 January 2018, 14:07 »
Small chip/crack in my one month old climate windscreen plus other tiny marks.

I have never had a chip in 9 years of car ownership, so I was not pleased to see this happen. Fortunately, it was small enough and in a location where a repair could be done, but I am waiting out for more damage before a full replacement on the insurance.

I've had one chip/crack repaired and have numerous smaller chips not to mention all the paint chips on the bumper, bonnet and edge of the roof! I had nothing like that on my Audi which I owned for 12 years and my driving habits haven't changed. Very odd :rolleyes:

I would be more then happy to have a thicker, heavy windscreen and sacrifice a couple of mph off the 155 top speed  :grin:

Never!! :whistle: :laugh:
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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #4 on: 22 January 2018, 15:52 »
I've had loads of windscreen hits on the previous Mk7... I think its something to do with the shape/length of the nose of the car.

There's also an awful lot of smashed up road surface around at the moment....
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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #5 on: 22 January 2018, 16:56 »
Oh I hope it isn't  :shocked:
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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #6 on: 22 January 2018, 17:15 »
Oh I hope it isn't  :shocked:

Don't worry, it's no different to the standard screen so you're no worse off...
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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #7 on: 22 January 2018, 17:28 »
Yeah, nothing can be done except swirving to avoid those pesky stones!

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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #8 on: 23 January 2018, 09:13 »
Yes it is worst quality on windscreens these day on all brand.. :sad:

So donĀ“t use ice scrape if you can. I never use it anymore, because of all the scratches you get... :angry:
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Re: Heads up: the climate windscreen is made of paper!
« Reply #9 on: 23 January 2018, 10:58 »
the paints crap too, i've got 3 scratches on mine already and only done 400 miles. i even had that carbon coating put on it...lol. waste of money tbh.