Replacement windscreen is leaking.

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Ok, I'm pretty much fuming around now. This is the first seriously heavy rain we've had since my replacement windscreen went in, and yesterday I found a nice sopping wet patch in the passenger footwell with no obvious way that it got in such as a dodgy door seal or anything, so the most likely cause is the replacement windscreen that was done back in October.

From the research I've done so far, it seems that what usually happens in this circumstance is that someone comes along, squirts a bit of mastic in wherever it's leaking, traps a load of water in there and then it rusts, but this takes so long you really can't prove it. The proper solution is to take the screen out and do a proper job.

Problem with that is the last windscreen took 6 months to arrive and was basically the last Cefiro windscreen that Nissan have, so if they break it getting it out then the car is a write off.

To make things worse, this was done at a garage I actually like, and would prefer to keep using. They subcontracted out the windscreen work to a local windscreen company, but my point of contact is with this garage, not the windscreen company.

Any advice?
 
If it really is on the last ever Cefiro windscreen then sell it immediatly - its only a matter of time until you get another crack from a stone, its a ticking timebomb. Make it someone elses problem, its not as if its a rare exotic worth saving. Flog it now whilst its still worth something.
 
I happen to like the car and want to keep and look after it.

Lets be honest no-one is going to buy it for the reasons you and many others gave in the thread where I bought it.

It's the last genuine Nissan one. If I needed to replace it in the future due to normal wear and tear then the pattern parts companies in Australia make them. I have no problem driving around, or leaving it parked up, with a stone crack as those don't leak.

"exotic" is a meaningless term anyway. The yanks would consider your BMW to be an exotic. My car is certainly rare though, in SE-4 trim at least.
 
But if the next crack writes the car off is it really worth putting time, effort and money into the car only to find a stray stone from a car in front ends everything?

As much as I like my car if there was a component on it which had a high chance of failure and, once dead, would render the car unusable for ever more, it would be time for it to go before that happened.
 
This was part of a larger insurance repair rather than just a windscreen claim, as the original claim was for more damage than just the windscreen, so it is treated differently, compared against market value and so on.

If it were a windscreen claim then I could deal directly with the windscreen company and advise them as to where to get a replacement, the insurance company would then get the bill which would include postage from Australia.

Plus if they break it, even if not written off, it's going to end up being sat around with no windscreen for an extended period of time. You of all people should be well aware of the incompetence of these windscreen companies, but unlike you I don't have a garage to put it in.
 
So when you said it was the last screen and it would write the car off if it was damaged when it was being removed, you were... making it up?

if they break it getting it out then the car is a write off.
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Now apparently it wont be a write off if you need a new screen?
 
[TW]Fox;16301292 said:
So when you said it was the last screen and it would write the car off if it was damaged when it was being removed, you were... making it up?
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No.

Windscreen claims are handled differently to normal insurance damage claims, so if in the process of fixing their cockup they were to break my windscreen, the cost would skyrocket and the insurer will likely decide to write it off.
 
Thanks :)

So now just the generic advice about how to handle the leaky windscreen situation is needed.
 
Surely the issue isn't the screen itself but the seal job they've done around it?

Take it to a Jet washer, blast the edges of the screen (with someone else in the car) and see where it is coming through (and how badly)?
 
I saw a Cefiro on the road the other day,and to my naked eye it was the same car as the Maxima, can you not use the Maxima screen?
 
Stop worrying about the screen and just get it fixed. Tell them to be careful with the screen as to all intents and purposes it can't be replaced if it breaks.

If I can take out and replace car windows without breaking them, I'm pretty sure a windscreen fitter can too.
 
Depends on year. After August 1994 (A32 generation onwards) they were the same car, mine is an A31.
 
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