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Old 02-06-24, 08:42 AM
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Have just replaced the front windscreen on my 410. It had a chip in it, not in an MOT failure area I'm told and when the gent from White Horse Windscreens came to fit the new one he resin filled it.
These screens fit 407's through to 410's. I have limited storage so would like to move it on and wondered if it'd be useful to anyone on here?
I'll ask Kevin nicely to add some pictures - but camera doesn't really pick up the chip correctly!
Any interest let me know. It'd have to be picked up - I'm near Lymington on the South Coast.
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Andrew

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Old 05-06-24, 02:00 PM
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Hi Andrew

I intend to replace my 409's front screen rubber as it has suffered rubber corrosion with old age. As replacement screens seem scarce, I would be pleased to have a spare for this job just in case!! I can collect.

kind regards

John Rolfs

p.s. Glad to hear more of your experience changing screens
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Old 08-06-24, 04:23 AM
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Morning John - will send you a message!
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Old 05-10-24, 08:26 AM
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John,

I know it’s a few months since your posting relating to the windscreen of your 409 but having recently had my windscreen replaced on my 410, I thought I would give you and any member of the forum who may be interested, a summary of my experience.

My existing windscreen was showing signs of delamination on both sides, the rubber seals had hardened and were starting to leak, so I purchased a new front windscreen and seals for both the front and rear glass.

I have a friend who is a professional auto glass fitter (over 40 years experience) and the obvious choice was to use him. Everything was arranged and we set to. We had great difficulty from the start, nothing was going well.
In desperation I phoned SLJ for advice which they gave me and also the name of the company they use, who are White Horse Windscreens, I phoned them and spoke to Clive Bryant. Clive gave both my glass fitter and myself the benefit of his experience over the phone but to no avail, we weren’t able to progress. After 4 hours we abandoned the job.

The following morning, I phoned Clive again and subsequently made arrangements for him to fit my new windscreen and replace the seals on the rear window.

Bearing in mind at this point I had no windscreen in my car and White Horse Windscreens were a 4.5hour drive from where I live. The Bristol had to be sheeted up and trailered down to Wiltshire.

I was able to watch Clive get to work and saw firsthand how to fit a windscreen into a Bristol 410, in my view it’s all down to a lot of experience and technique. It’s most definitely not something I would advise any Bristol owner to attempt or farm out to either a local or multi national glass fitting company. It is a very specialised job and White Horse are the people to use, they are, in my opinion excellent and their prices are very reasonable.

Brian
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Old 05-10-24, 10:00 PM
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4.5 hours without a windscreen….try 4.5 days and 2500 miles!
I was with my parents on holiday in Southern Turkey back in 1974 when the windscreen smashed. We tried the main Chrysler dealer in Istanbul, but it would take a couple of weeks for a replacement to be sent. No point in trying in Bulgaria or Yugoslavia. Austria wanted about 5 days so we pressed on. Rain in Germany was not much fun but at least it stopped by Belgium.
The funniest thing was at the ferry terminal where in the dark the chap sticking lane markings on the cars expected there to be a windscreen and gauged the force accordingly. His hand went straight through the space where he was expecting glass to be!
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