odysseus
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Another day, another P38 challenge.
Recently while mowing my lawn I can only assume what must have been a stone flew up and cracked the rear quarter light window of my P38. Pretty bad luck all things considering, but there you go.
I phoned my insurance, paid my £80 windscreen excess, and then got put through to AutoGlass who took all the relevant details. They didn't have the part in stock (not all that surprising), but after a few days did eventually come out to replace the window. This is where the problems started.
The first window they brought appeared to be a darker tint than what I have in my P38. Unfortunate mix up said AutoGlass, they ordered me a new bit of glass. A few days later the man with a van comes out again, and finds exactly the same issue. Must be a bad batch say AutoGlass.
Fast forward to today, the third piece of glass has arrived and that too is tinted darker than the rest of my glass.
The AutoGlass guy claims that this is the only glass that is available for my year Range Rover, and that it must be right. I obviously disagree with this assessment.
My question is, has anyone else had this issue, or do they have knowledge of different glass tints available on P38 Vogues in 2000?
Any thoughts on what I should do next? I've told AutoGlass I want the correct tinted glass in my car, but they claim to have no more options. They also claim to have spoken to Land Rover, though I'm not confident that they have.
To clarify, my glass is not really very tinted, whereas the glass AutoGlass keep bringing is. I'm fairly sure tinting would have been a factory option that the first owner of my P38 didn't fancy.
Recently while mowing my lawn I can only assume what must have been a stone flew up and cracked the rear quarter light window of my P38. Pretty bad luck all things considering, but there you go.
I phoned my insurance, paid my £80 windscreen excess, and then got put through to AutoGlass who took all the relevant details. They didn't have the part in stock (not all that surprising), but after a few days did eventually come out to replace the window. This is where the problems started.
The first window they brought appeared to be a darker tint than what I have in my P38. Unfortunate mix up said AutoGlass, they ordered me a new bit of glass. A few days later the man with a van comes out again, and finds exactly the same issue. Must be a bad batch say AutoGlass.
Fast forward to today, the third piece of glass has arrived and that too is tinted darker than the rest of my glass.
The AutoGlass guy claims that this is the only glass that is available for my year Range Rover, and that it must be right. I obviously disagree with this assessment.
My question is, has anyone else had this issue, or do they have knowledge of different glass tints available on P38 Vogues in 2000?
Any thoughts on what I should do next? I've told AutoGlass I want the correct tinted glass in my car, but they claim to have no more options. They also claim to have spoken to Land Rover, though I'm not confident that they have.
To clarify, my glass is not really very tinted, whereas the glass AutoGlass keep bringing is. I'm fairly sure tinting would have been a factory option that the first owner of my P38 didn't fancy.
