Windscreen
replacement
A screen is a structural part. It carries roof load in a rollover and it backs the passenger airbag, so the bond matters more than the glass does. We fit to the maker’s spec, tell you the safe drive-away time, and hand you the calibration report before we go.
Send us the reg
The registration tells us the VIN, and the VIN tells us which of the four screens your model year actually takes. No guessing, no surprise on the day.
The bond is the job,
not the glass
Anyone can buy a screen. What separates a good fit from a bad one is the pinch-weld prep, the primer, and whether the urethane was stored properly and used inside its date.
We cut the old screen out with a cold knife or wire rather than hacking at the aperture, leave a thin even bed of old urethane as a key, and prime any bare metal we expose. Skipping that is how you get corrosion under the trim in two winters.
New mouldings and clips go on as standard. Reusing brittle ten-year-old trim to save eight pounds is the usual source of a wind whistle at seventy.
If the car has a camera behind the mirror, the recalibration happens before we leave. A screen fitted without it will pass a glance and fail at the moment the car needs to brake for you.
How a replacement
actually runs
Reg in, VIN checked
We pull the exact glass specification, including sensors, heating and any head-up display, before quoting.
Glass and trim ordered
Screen, mouldings and clips together. If it is a next-day part we say so rather than booking you in blind.
Old screen cut out
Wire or cold knife, interior covered, aperture cleaned back to an even bed and any bare metal primed.
Bonded and set
Fresh urethane from a heated van, glass set on stops, then left to grab while we refit the trim.
Camera recalibrated
Static or dynamic as the manufacturer requires, then the report goes to you and to your insurer.
Does yours need recalibrating?
Registration and what the damage looks like. You will see whether it can be repaired or needs replacing, whether the camera behind your mirror has to be recalibrated, and how the insurance works.
Resin injected while the damage is still small, about 40 minutes, and the glass stays original.
Your vehicle
Petrol · 2024 · almost certainly carries a forward-facing camera
Recalibration
A repair leaves the glass in place, so the camera keeps its aim.
Most policies cover glass separately, outside your no-claims bonus, and we handle the claim with your insurer so you deal with the excess and nothing else. Vehicle details come from the DVSA record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
What arrives
with the glass
The screen itself
Matched to the VIN, with the correct tint band, acoustic layer and bracket already bonded on.
OEM specNew mouldings
Fresh trim and clips rather than whatever survived the cut-out, which is where whistles come from.
Not reusedPrimer and urethane
In-date, stored warm, applied to a prepped pinch-weld. The part of the job nobody sees.
In dateSensor transfer
Rain, light and humidity sensors moved across with new gel pads where the maker specifies them.
New padsRecalibration
Static or dynamic on the same visit, with the printed report for your records and the insurer.
Report givenWiper reset
Arms refitted to the parked position rather than wherever they happened to land.
ParkedOld glass taken away
Laminated glass is not kerbside recycling. It leaves with us and goes to a licensed processor.
LicensedVAT and the paperwork
Quoted inclusive. The invoice, the calibration report and the guarantee arrive as one email.
InclusiveWhat people ask
about replacement
Can I drive as soon as you finish?
Not immediately. Urethane needs to reach a minimum strength before the screen can hold an airbag, and that depends on the product, the temperature and the humidity on the day. The shortest we ever give is an hour, and in cold or damp weather it is longer.
We write the time on the paperwork. It is not a guess and it is not negotiable.
Is OEM-equivalent glass worse than the maker’s own?
No. Most main-dealer screens are made by the same handful of European manufacturers, on the same lines, to the same standard. What matters is that the specification matches the VIN — the right tint band, the right acoustic layer, the right bracket.
If your policy or warranty requires branded glass, say so and we will price it that way.
What if it leaks or whistles afterwards?
We come back and put it right at our cost, for as long as you own the vehicle. Leaks, wind noise, failed mouldings and bonding faults are all ours. Stone damage to the new glass is not, for the obvious reason.
Does every car need recalibration?
Only the ones with a forward-facing camera behind the mirror, which is most cars built since roughly 2018 and plenty before that. If yours has lane keeping, adaptive cruise or autonomous braking, the answer is yes.
We check on the VIN rather than asking you to know.
Do I lose my no-claims bonus?
Usually not. Windscreen cover normally sits apart from the rest of a comprehensive policy, so a glass claim does not touch the bonus. You pay the glass excess and we bill the insurer for the balance.
Check the wording, or read us the policy number and we will check it for you.
Where we fit them
Replacements run mobile across the whole patch, and anything needing a static calibration comes into the unit where the floor is level and the lighting is controlled.
