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