OEM Windshield replacement on 2010 Priius

And what of it and why didn't you because even the Toyota dealership a lot of times now uses auto light safety light whatever it is regularly I see their trucks over at the dealership all the time so unless you forcibly make a request for a Toyota factory windshield which my God that must be about $480 or better That's not generally what the dealer's even going to give you they're going to sell you the I don't know the major name brand right now I have one out on my car My 2010 has one my 2013 is factory original side by side the cars look almost identical and that's that auto glass has to be made to certain specs yes Do car companies make better auto glass I think auto glass is made for the car companies by auto glass makers to be honest about it but your original factory glass may have some specifications that don't have to be met I don't know what that would be and really don't worry about it too much what are you going to get out of the Toyota name being on the windshield down in the corner versus PPG or any other major manufacturer of this type of glass? I'm not going to get anything My insurance company may have to pay more money but then they get discounted anyway If you know how all this works I don't see you what the big point would be personally a 2010 car now is like 13 14 years old and you're going to be hammering your insurance company here whatever for a factory windshield for a car heading to 20 years old almost wow but yeah I guess that's cool.

 

It's a cheap aftermarket one.
When I needed mine replace, it informed the insurance company I did NOT want a
cheap aftermarket one, I wanted a TOYOTA windshield.
When the guy came, he said it was. I said show me where it says Toyota on it. It didn't.
He finally admited that it was aftermarket and was good enough.
I informed him, and the insurance company that a lawyer will be contacting them if I'm
involved in a wreck and am insured or killed because of the cheap aftermarket windshiled.

It took months of cleaning, razor blading, steel wooling to get the glass clean enough as to
not be blurry when it rained. Even with RainX, the water still just stuck their, and I couldn't see.

And I've been making them pay for it every since.

 

Gosh I haven't had any experiences like that with a windshield safety light and PPG and all themselves the same brands or their parent or sister company makes said brand or whatever so I don't know I've got one with original windshield I think maybe even two generation twos and I know two with the cheap aftermarket I didn't know I could go to the dealer and make my insurance company put a I don't know $500 windshield in and I haven't been able to tell to be honest with you I know the aftermarket when I got has the 10 at the top along with the fuzzy dots whatever you call them and it's clean and clear and works great I wish I could claim I couldn't see out of it and run over somebody but not likely. But I haven't really noticed any difference when they took my old one off when I held a piece of the new glass to a piece of the edge to edge of the new glass the layering looked very similar and all of that My new replacement fake windshield like I say was tinted My original was not like a base car you know something seemed to work out well I still have the car and the windshield doing wonderful

 

I just had my 2015 windshield replaced because of a growing crack from highway debris. No insurance involved, I contacted a local autoglass Co and didn't request any special windshield. Since mine is salvage the cheapest windshield must have been used when they did the rebuild because this replacement is better than the one I had...(better tint). Cost was about $335

 

Glass from a company like Safelite is fine. There are very low cost glass companies that will install seconds with distortions typically on the passenger side. Those "low bids" are a lose lose.

When you get a newer car with safety camera systems. a new windshield has to have its camera calibrated at the dealer or at select glass companies like Safelite. The dealer calibration alone can be equivalent to what an old gen3 windshield will cost.

 

This was from safelite. I certainly wasn't impressed with them.
They are just ike any other company, do it as cheap as possible, make money.

 

How?

 

I noticed my replacement windshields (both on my Gen 2 and Gen 3) seemed stiffer, more glass like than the originals, which seemed more flexible, plastic, like they showed on one of the episodes of Scrubs