Second windscreen required in 6 months, the first paid for courtesy of the Insurance company, the 2nd i have to foot the excess. A new screen for a Sport is 1600 bucks or there about from O'Brien Glass (autoglass equivalent in the UK), not heated or anything fancy, just the rain sensor. I could not believe the price, that is a tad over a grand of her majesties finest squids...

MikeS, see if you can get unlimited glass when the Tango special turns up, not just the one a year like moi.. Assuming such a policy exists elsewhere Another Pommie Bar Steward down under

MY20 Defender 110 SE P400 Eiger/Ebony
MY10 3.0 RRS TDv6 Fuji/Ebony/Anigre

Only use Obriens if you are claiming on insurance - they are the stealers of the windscreen world. I am sure that if you shop around you might find a price closer to your excess.

The auto wipe function on my wipers has caused a large scratch on my screen - caused by wiping when there is no rain and some sand on the wipers - I now have the auto wipe function turned off. The scratch is not enough to claim on so I am hoping a convenient rock will fix the issue before too long.

Garry 07MY RRS TDV6
Arctic Frost
Aspen Interior

Zilch wrote:

MikeS, see if you can get unlimited glass when the Tango special turns up, not just the one a year like moi.. Assuming such a policy exists elsewhere

Mike, Make sure you have sufficient offroad cover with Shannon's if you intend to go off the bitumen... They don't all provide it!

Mike - I would be looking further a field than just Shannons - they are great for older vehicles on historic plates but not so good for modern vehicles. However most insurance companies will not know what your vehicle is and will just want to insure it as a standard V8 RRS.

They were one of the more expensive for no better coverage for my standard RRS. I would also be speaking with Lumley Special Vehicles (different to Lumleys Insurance) who may be interested in insuring it as a special vehicle.
They are much cheaper than Shannons for my 101 and they let you keep the wreck. Shannons only do this with very old vehicles.

As far as the heated front windscreen goes - if these were a specific item fitted to the G4, I can understand you wanting to stay with one from the point of originality but you really do not need one in Aust. Not sure you would actually be able to get one here and they will cost a motza.

Garry 07MY RRS TDV6
Arctic Frost
Aspen Interior

Cheers Garry, I'll look into the insurance more before the car arrives next year. The issue I have at the moment is more that it's an imported car and a modified one at that, even though the modifications are all fairly benign for the Aus market. It is however modified and of course I'm not a resident, so add all that together and it's problematic. Shannons may not be cheap, but they were easy to deal with and are only a few miles from where we live, so I could just call in to discuss it. We also have a 1979 Triumph Spitfire to insure so some form of classic insurance is necessary.

The heated windscreen is standard on the HSE spec car, it's not G4 specific. Our new Focus XR5 hasn't got a heated screen either yet that's a standard item across the Ford range in the UK. There's certainly a benefit to them here in Aus, we've already has a few mornings where the heated screen would be useful... Ex-G4 Challenge RRS HSE, BV55 YZE. Subtle shade of orange ! Now registered YZE481 G4RRS in Melbourne.

Well its being fitted by LR dealership directly, a full pukka LR windscreen for 1400 dollars, interesting they can do it cheaper than O'Briens.

In terms of payment i have lumped it on the novated lease company as a general repair/service cost, i will just have
to go easier on the brakes and tyres for the next 12 months  Another Pommie Bar Steward down under

MY20 Defender 110 SE P400 Eiger/Ebony
MY10 3.0 RRS TDv6 Fuji/Ebony/Anigre

Zilch. Don,t forget the Range Rover Sport is fitted with an "OPTIKOOL"front windscreen so this as well as the wiper rain sensor may justify the price. Also it would be interesting to know if the O,Brien screen is this spec.
In a previous life before I retired I worked for the Australian importer of Peugeot and this screen spec was offered to us by Automobiles Peugeot about 2002 M.Y. and I think it added about A$300.00 to the factory vehicle buy price so it must be expensive to produce.
Having said this I am sure Land Rover Aust are making a good quid as well.

Garrie2283 wrote:

Zilch. Don,t forget the Range Rover Sport is fitted with an "OPTIKOOL"front windscreen so this as well as the wiper rain sensor may justify the price. Also it would be interesting to know if the O,Brien screen is this spec.