RV living

[Raspy]

Jeep Wranglers are famous for broken windshields. To replace mine with Safelite was going to cost $350. A local shop has now done two of them for me for $180. each, out the door. Same for my Ram and my buddy's Chevy pickup.

Safelite charges nearly twice the price for the same glass.

 

[comancheflight]

The aircraft comment got me to wondering so I looked up one of my aircraft, a 250 Comanche, and the windshield STCd was about $500...of course your paying an aircraft surgeon wages to put it in...might be cheaper to sell the RV and buy aircraft.
And aircraft you can usually sell them for more than you paid for them in the used market.

 

[17 Oaks]

I pulled into a Safelite and they put in a new windshield for me. I drove out and made a left into the center turn lane, waiting on a big truck in my right view mirror. Truck goes by, hauling rocks, one comes off, takes a bounce and hit dead center of my windshield. I make a left back into Satellite and the put a new one in, don't charge me a dime.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

I had a large (40') MH for 10 years, lived in it full time for 8. I replaced the windshield (it had 2 panels) 3 times. First time was its maiden voyage. Replaced under warranty but extended my trip by 10 days to get the replacements and get a spot in the shop calendar. The other times were covered by insurance (500 Deductible) at $1000 each time. In 10 years I spent over $10,000 in repairs and a lot I did myself. Early on I learned to not buy common stuff at the RV stores with markups as much as 100% over the local hardware store. Windshields are unique to the model, changed very often, and not a common stock item. All my failures were in the original design as the openings in the fiberglass were smaller than the window + gasket. Learned that on the last one. We trimmed out the fiberglass, installed, and it lasted the last 8 years. I told this to the factory service manager and his comment was "we always wondered why we had such a demand for replacement windows on that model". DUH!!

Ron