Windshield Question?

[-Javier-]

are all e30s windshield the same size? my little girl just broke the windshield and i am pretty sure i can get one tomorrow in the yard, and are they hard to change is it something i can do my self?

[JasonC]

Here's a write up in this thread, http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/show...168#post996168


I believe they are all the same exept the M3's. They aren't that much new. I got a PPG one for $114.00 I also put it in myself, it's not to hard to do.

[nando]

jason, where did you get your windshield? I need a new one pretty bad - $114 sounds pretty good.

[george graves]

jason, where did you get your windshield? I need a new one pretty bad - $114 sounds pretty good.

$114 sounds awesome. Nothing like new glass. Mine is SO pitted and scratched it's scary.

[JasonC]

I got it at a somewhat local glass/mirror place in Oakland,MD. I called there and another place in town. The one in Oakland had a cheaper price and was a brand name (PPG) plus they got the glass there the next day for me to pick up.

[-Javier-]

$114 sounds nice, but i would like an oem with the bmw logo and i know i can get one at the salvage yard. :D

[nando]

OEM is always nice, but right now I just want one that isn't pitted, chipped, scratched and cracked 16" through the middle of it :p

[JasonC]

I allways thought european glass was softer then what was made in the USA. They don't "bake" it as long so it tends to get more chips and pits in it.

[AndrewBird]

Isn't the M3 glass the same, just with a different seal? Or is it that you can swap M3 glass/seal into a non-M?

[nando]

I allways thought european glass was softer then what was made in the USA. They don't "bake" it as long so it tends to get more chips and pits in it.

I don't know, you ever had a Ford? those things have horrible windshields - mine may have been pitted, but it held up to huge rock chips for years without cracking (until this winter). One little rock chip on a Ford windshield = death.

Isn't the M3 glass the same, just with a different seal? Or is it that you can swap M3 glass/seal into a non-M?

no, yes. the M3 windshield is bonded to the frame and serves as structural support.