Octavia windscreen cost - ouch.

[K1W1]

$738.00 including fitting

[Smead]

Glad I have windscreen insurance ( though it's cheaper for my Polo)

[kman_b5]

Looks like I'll be up for a similar amount for mine then... copped a massive crack from a rock thrown off a truck on the way to the Blue Mountains last weekend K1W1 - Was the replacement for the Octavia a factory Sekurit/Soliver item, or an OEM-substitute brand?

[K1W1]

K1W1 - Was the replacement for the Octavia a factory Sekurit/Soliver item, or an OEM-substitute brand?

No idea haven't had it fitted yet. At that price I hope that it's the factory one.
I have never taken windscreen insurance. This is the first screen I have had to have replaced in literally millions of km driven and the insurance will pay a significant part of it anyway so I am so far ahead of where I would be with paying their little "extra" that I don't mind.

[Antiplastix]

Well worth the extra $40 you pay on your premium, I ve had one replaced on my T5 Transporter and the Mazda6 I had. If you do only city driving not so important I guess.

[K1W1]

RACV charge $65 per year for the Skoda. I've been paying car insurance for over 30 years and have to date never made a claim of any sort so at even $20 per year average I would have paid over $600.00 in additional windscreen cover but my excess is only $500 so as I said in an earlier post I'm miles ahead cost wise.
BTW the rock or stone that it hit the screen was inbound on the Monash near VFL park in light/medium traffic on Monday. No trucks anywhere near me so it must have flicked up from another car.

[Gti Dave]

RACV charge $65 per year for the Skoda. I've been paying car insurance for over 30 years and have to date never made a claim of any sort so at even $20 per year average I would have paid over $600.00 in additional windscreen cover but my excess is only $500 so as I said in an earlier post I'm miles ahead cost wise.
BTW the rock or stone that it hit the screen was inbound on the Monash near VFL park in light/medium traffic on Monday. No trucks anywhere near me so it must have flicked up from another car.

Yeah I get stonechips anywhere especially on freeways and driving behind or anywhere near a holden commodore or ford falcon (rwd's) or trucks on highways especially on my way to to Bendigo.

[BlackSuperb]

Mmmm. Expensive. I go through a windscreens every couple of years. Mainly from trucks going the other way on country roads.

I vouch for windscreen insurance.

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Why do tip trucks with trailers drive in the fast lane on freeways? They continually drop stones and stuff as well as sweep the normally unswept verge with their slipstream. They throw up all sorts of stuff that chips your bonnet and windscreen.
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[woofy]

Someone else here just had one the other day in Melb, didn't think it was quite that much though. I always expected they would be pricey.

[BlackOctaviaRS]

We had a bus flick up a rock and crack the windscreen a couple of months ago, $180`ish for O'Brien glass to do there thing and fix the crack...not perfect, but better than the cost of a new windscreen, as we haven't bothered with windscreen cover.

PS - there was a new Lamborghini Gallardo just behind us, too bad it didn't get his car....at least he could afford the cost of a new windscreen

[The_Hawk]

I used our cover to replace the multivan windscreen a month or so ago now. No excess, free windscreen. Bonus. For Shannons it's just included in your premium although if/when I move to another insurer I'll probably tick that box again anyway.

[Ando01]

$60 buck option with NRMA, if the car is less than three years old you can request OEM screen. You can have them repair and if you don't like it you get the new OEM glass. So I ticked that box for the Skoda. Doesn't affect your NCB either

[woofy]

I dunno who that was with Kiwi, but someone on the facebook Skoda Aus page was just quoted $500 all up for the same thing with Windscreens O'brien.

[wfdTamar]

There are different types of screen in the parts catalogue. Standard, standard with rain/light sensor, then the rain/light sensor and sound proofing.

[K1W1]

I dunno who that was with Kiwi, but someone on the facebook Skoda Aus page was just quoted $500 all up for the same thing with Windscreens O'brien.

Sorry I just saw your reply.
$500 sounds like either a screen without rain sensing wipers or their insurance excess which they would have to pay to the installer.

FWIW I ended up getting a genuine Skoda screen fitted through Windscreens O'Brien. It cost $10 more than their (O'Briens) non genuine screen and the insurance company were happy to pay the difference anyway,