I was not previously aware of this issue - if I had been, I would have changed my windscreen earlier...
I have a W-reg 2000 TD5 Disco GS that's in pretty good shape. I've owned it nearly two years, and during this time it's been wearing a replacement screen and a small stone chip in the centre of the roof just above the screen seal. This stone chip has started to bubble and fester, so I decided that perhaps I should let the local spray shop have a go at it.
He pointed out that there were, in fact, about a dozen chips on the leading edge of the roof, and some corrosion evident under the rubber seal. A bigger job then. Wanting it done properly, I decided to combine a screen change with a good scrub and re-spray of the roof.
The screen was extracted today. However, instead of the screen coming away from the body, a good section of the roof edge came away with the glass. This has been caused by the earlier (cheap?) replacement windscreen being slightly under-height, leaving a gap in the bonding that has allowed water to sit and do its damage. As a result, the majority of the top body edge is now made of fibreglass and I'm having a heated screen fitted as this is fractionally larger and will fill the gap entirely. OK, not perhaps entirely necessary now there's little metal left to rust, but having had a heated screen in my earlier Discovery I know how useful they can be.
The moral? Don't know - checking the integrity of the windscreen seal will, by necessity, disturb it and perhaps trigger problems that hadn't started. Or, don't dither with a windscreen change – get it done and have a bloody good look at it when you do. Apparently, the comment from the fitter was that this was my no means the worst example that he's come across. Scary.
I have a W-reg 2000 TD5 Disco GS that's in pretty good shape. I've owned it nearly two years, and during this time it's been wearing a replacement screen and a small stone chip in the centre of the roof just above the screen seal. This stone chip has started to bubble and fester, so I decided that perhaps I should let the local spray shop have a go at it.
He pointed out that there were, in fact, about a dozen chips on the leading edge of the roof, and some corrosion evident under the rubber seal. A bigger job then. Wanting it done properly, I decided to combine a screen change with a good scrub and re-spray of the roof.
The screen was extracted today. However, instead of the screen coming away from the body, a good section of the roof edge came away with the glass. This has been caused by the earlier (cheap?) replacement windscreen being slightly under-height, leaving a gap in the bonding that has allowed water to sit and do its damage. As a result, the majority of the top body edge is now made of fibreglass and I'm having a heated screen fitted as this is fractionally larger and will fill the gap entirely. OK, not perhaps entirely necessary now there's little metal left to rust, but having had a heated screen in my earlier Discovery I know how useful they can be.
The moral? Don't know - checking the integrity of the windscreen seal will, by necessity, disturb it and perhaps trigger problems that hadn't started. Or, don't dither with a windscreen change – get it done and have a bloody good look at it when you do. Apparently, the comment from the fitter was that this was my no means the worst example that he's come across. Scary.
