Best place for STi windshield?
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Best place for STi windshield?
Hey does anybody have a hookup or recommendation on where to go for front glass for an 04 STi? I need to replace mine bad. Thanks!
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Hey Monster, were you asking me or the other guy? I know I can get new STi glass installed right now for like $800 so ya, looking for something better than that. lol Basically, best price I can find I'll go with it. I do want OEM not WRX, fwiw.
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well i got an aftermarket windshield installed at safelite in stockton... only difference from my oem one is it doesn't say subaru on it! and i paid 180 installed!!!
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I hear Don's mobile glass isn't too bad either. They do the glass for the subaru dealership up here.
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Holy crap. Was this an STi (i.e. thin) windshield? The STi glass is thinner than the WRX glass (and more $$$).
why would u want to pay so much for oem glass when u can get aftermarket for so much cheaper? There really isn't much of a difference. I paid roughly the same amount as Subadubaru for a replacement windshield. Had I paid for OEM, it would've cost me about $400.
Besides, why pay $800 when a small little rock one day hits your thin windshield glass replacement and makes a big crack. You'll be pissed.
Besides, why pay $800 when a small little rock one day hits your thin windshield glass replacement and makes a big crack. You'll be pissed.
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Ya, good point. I don't mind aftermarket, I just want to keep the thin glass so I can maintain OEM weight. What is the actual weight difference? I've never actually looked it up! 
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I wouldn't worry about it not being OEM glass. In my experience, as soon as you get the new glass you'll take a rock to the windshield sometime in the next week or so 
Just go with the cheapest you can find and be done with it (I've replaced at least 5 windshields in the last 7 or 8 years in various cars).
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Just go with the cheapest you can find and be done with it (I've replaced at least 5 windshields in the last 7 or 8 years in various cars).-Brian
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I wouldn't worry about it not being OEM glass. In my experience, as soon as you get the new glass you'll take a rock to the windshield sometime in the next week or so Just go with the cheapest you can find and be done with it (I've replaced at least 5 windshields in the last 7 or 8 years in various cars).
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Just go with the cheapest you can find and be done with it (I've replaced at least 5 windshields in the last 7 or 8 years in various cars).-Brian
So yeah, just get some glass on there cuz it'll probably get fragged again.
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secureway autoglass in downtown sf is the way to go man, tell him kevin b. told u to call he'll hook u up
and i think if your insurance covers cracked windshields, they can do it also
and i think if your insurance covers cracked windshields, they can do it also