Windscreen, import WRX bronze/blue tint?
03 October 2006, 01:23 PM
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Windscreen, import WRX bronze/blue tint?
Picked up a foot-long crack from tax-disk area of screen...
Couple of local companies quote £140-160 fitted, for blue tint. I gather the '95 Jap-import WRX has a bronze tint, and I wonder if blue would make a noticeable difference? I'm thinking probably not, as the tint just looks greyish (and very slight) to me. The more expensive company reckons they can get the bronze one for £176 fitted.
Any advice anyone?
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Couple of local companies quote £140-160 fitted, for blue tint. I gather the '95 Jap-import WRX has a bronze tint, and I wonder if blue would make a noticeable difference? I'm thinking probably not, as the tint just looks greyish (and very slight) to me. The more expensive company reckons they can get the bronze one for £176 fitted.
Any advice anyone?
TIA
Andy
03 October 2006, 02:06 PM
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I seem to remember seeing a thread on here once saying that Silver Shield do the correct tint, I used to have the same car with the same tint so it stuck in my mind. Alternately, get a secondhand one that is the correct tint and pay for the work to change it. There must be laods of early wrx imports been broken.
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Screen cracks, due to body stress...?
Thanks for that.
Also, both companies reckon they can usually re-use the top rubber trim (seems to conflict with general opinion I found doing a search on here?)
Am wondering if my windscreen crack is due to body stress, as I can't see any chip thereabouts. I can also (just) see the spot welds above the doors along the roofline. Car has had 60/40 and now 50/40 coilovers with solid mounts for the last year, but no strut bracing, and has done 5 full-on trackdays in that time. Don't think the spot welds were visible a year ago...
Andy
Also, both companies reckon they can usually re-use the top rubber trim (seems to conflict with general opinion I found doing a search on here?)
Am wondering if my windscreen crack is due to body stress, as I can't see any chip thereabouts. I can also (just) see the spot welds above the doors along the roofline. Car has had 60/40 and now 50/40 coilovers with solid mounts for the last year, but no strut bracing, and has done 5 full-on trackdays in that time. Don't think the spot welds were visible a year ago...
Andy
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