so here's the reason why you have to watch before you change the windshield
on your BMW. Welcome back to the channel your buddy mark with you know that
there's a lot of options you know we drive in these nasty roads
in Alberta where I'm from here actually and anywhere really northern US or
Canada as well as a lot of places in Europe particularly eastern and northern
Europe have a lot of roads like this to where the cities and the local
jurisdictions decide to throw a lot of gravel on the roads and when you have
gravel on the roads you have other cars driving along and they spit gravel and
gravel hits the glass breaks the windshields you wind up with little
cracks and splits all over and eventually sometimes the window breaks
altogether well that's really unfortunate because these windshields
can be very very expensive as a matter of fact I know a gentleman who just
picked up a new BMW and unfortunately it's time for a windshield change but he
went to the dealer well he went to the local BMW dealer they quoted him a brand
new windshield like this for his ex actually was an x3 but similar thing
we're in an x5 here he was quoted actually about $900 Canadian for the
windshield then he was actually quoted for another $300 for trim pieces and
another $300 for labor all in to change this windshield with a nice little BMW
logo down on the windshield here he was quoted almost 15 about $1500 all in by
the dealer to change out the windshield well some of you guys carry glass
coverage with your insurance and then it doesn't matter but even with glass
coverage and you have deductibles with a deductible that means you still have to
pay a certain amount 250 maybe $500 out of your pocket first and then the
insurance company picks up the remainder well as soon as you make a claim as well
that goes against your account and many times years after that the insurance
companies start gouging you for higher rates because you've made a claim we'll
try to avoid that altogether so my whole concept is try to find the best deal
I'll tell you right now here's a great way that you can save money with your
BMW if you should find it yourself with a broken windshield why because a broken
glass may be vandalism you know rocks whatever it be there are reasons anybody
might have to change a windshield in their car well here's the deal so he was
quoted fifteen hundred bucks by the local dealer
well it's BMW glass it must be a special glass because it's BMW brand he has
nothing special about his car other than it has the rain sensors built-in so in
other words he's got the little controller on his country on his stalk
down on the console that he activates that's driving along and there's rain
hitting the windshield that is in essence starts to you know move the
blades the wiper blades which then allows it to keep the windows clear of
course during rain and it regulates depending on the amount of rain that
hits well so it's nice to have that rain sensing feature but that doesn't cost a
whole lot of money you believe it or not you can actually go to these third-party
glass companies and so here's where I'm gonna save you guys some money if you go
to a third party glass company now I'm from Edmonton Alberta and I'll tell you
there's a place I probably shouldn't advertise for them because I don't work
for them I will say there's a third party glass company here in Edmonton one
of my favorites I've changed windshields with them numerous times roofer various
vehicles and the last time I did the windshield on this x5 it really only
ended up costing me about two hundred and twenty five dollars that's with the
rain sensors that's with a new windshield that's with all the new trim
around that included everything all in and labor two hundred and twenty five
dollars on my x5 so I directed my friend that has this new x3 to do the same and
so instead of paying fifteen hundred dollars you go to these third party
glass companies and often they'll put a third party aftermarket windshield in
for you it doesn't say BMW down in the corner but it does have many of the best
vacations and ratings that you might find with the BMW gloss you just do it
far cheaper not to mention why are you paying those
the fancy white trench coats to install your windows are they actually changing
it or are they sending that car out you bring your car to the dealer are they
actually doing it themselves or do they middleman it and send it off somewhere
else to put in that windshield hey I don't know I don't see what goes on
behind the scenes but I will tell you that there's absolutely no reason to pay
$1,500 for a windshield by BMW instead you go to these aftermarket outfits $200
out the door all in and that way you don't even have to bother insurance
because again allow these insurance companies are gonna charge you a $500
deductible or more sometimes which means that you might as well just buy it
yourself anyway so for a couple hundred bucks you put a new gloss in here you
get new trim and you're off to the races now there's some other things to
consider and I'll tell you this much so you can get cheap rain sensing gloss
because it's pretty straightforward all they do is put a couple of sensors you
know they tie some sensors into the system and it detects and it'll activate
your whole operation of rain sensing what there are limitations on however if
you happen to have a car with heads-up display like I know my e60 m5 has
heads-up display this is where the limitations lie so what are your options
if you have that well your options really boil down to a couple of simple
ones one you either claim it on insurance because maybe you had a bad
Rock and it broke the window and you might have to go through insurance
another option is you just pay the piper and likely because it's got the
capability it's got the actual material within the glass or as a coating that
gives up their reflective properties that allow the heads-up display to
operate properly so you either pay the full amount which is probably going to
be in the neighborhood of $2,000 or $2,500 Canadian for the heads-up display
and rain-sensing windshield or the other third option is you put a standard
windshield in with rain sensing sensors on it and you just live with the limited
visibility on the heads-up display and you can still again do that for a couple
of hundred bucks if you can do without that heads-up display or just a kind of
a washed-out dimmer version of it that's a huge savings otherwise like I said the
heads-up display really is a limiting factor
these third party outfits that at least I've experienced do not have glass that
can accommodate heads-up display thanks for joining the video guys I really
appreciate you sticking around to listen to the end of it I hope this saved you
guys some bucks at the end of the day I'm here to share with you some of the
experiences that are gonna save you money and help us all enjoy motoring
with a BMW at a minimal cost and maximum savings thanks again everybody don't
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