Amazing difference in windscreen quotes $265 vs $554

I have now way of knowing if the vary in quality.

A post I read recently on this forum that talked about original toyota windscreens on prados being a thicker glass, I gather from the thread, this is to reduce road noise. If i recall correctly the toyota replacement windscreen was around $900 plus fitting.

The windscreen I needed to replace was a non gen toyota, so I was happy to replace with another non gen part.

I used National Windscreens in Moorabbin Vic. If you want the more expensive company, call the first company that pops up when you google windscreens replacement.

Usually glass will do that when it is laminated and you are wearing polarised sunglasses.

might be better quality than genuine if laminated???

Brett

do your fit glass for Windscreen O'Brien ?

Yes, I ask him why he quote $554, he said he didn't know if the replacement was a gen toyota part or not, ... the said that they had to also replace the rubbers.

Funny thing about the the human race ... some companies just want to rip you off.

I won't be calling O'Brien glass in the future ... ever.

Looks like we got lucky... we hit an eagle last week- poor thing seemed a bit confused and just hovered above the road, didn't move out of the way of the car, he looked like a little one... it hit the top of the windscreen with a huge thud but thankfully no smash- glad you guys were ok!

Don't assume an eagle will take off and fly over your car, they usually don't/won't/can't...

Usually when you see them on the road, they're having a great feast on some other road-kill, for them to take off is like any of us trying to sprint while we're 3/4 the way through a big Christmas dinner - they're not going to move very quickly!
Secondly, if they do get out of the way, they'll probably just run to the side of the road - they don't want the crows to get back to the food before they do!
If they do decide it's worth trying to take off, they've usually only reached windscreen height by the time you arrive - they're much bigger birds than most others and they take a bit to get into the air (think Boeing 747 compared to a Cessna!), and then they're also heavy if they hit

Yeah, not much you can do about it really- ours landed on the road a second or two before we did. Feel a bit bad about it but it was unfortunately unavoidable and I am normally one to decelerate for the birds.

It was a bit better than the parrot that earlier that morning flew straight into the passenger side window while we were travelling at 100kph. Scared the bejeesus out of the other half, fortunately that window is still intact too.

Their were two of them sitting in the spear grass didn't see them till one started his flight, from see to hit about 3 seconds. 2 minutes after sunset, took off into the wind which just happened to be blowing across the road from our right.

Last thing I was expecting was a eagle as had only seen one in the last 120kms and it was sitting in a tree 50kms back.
Cheers
Charlie