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    Windshield Question?

    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?

    #2
    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.

    1992 BMW 325iC
    1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
    1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza 140hp

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      #3
      jason, where did you get your windshield? I need a new one pretty bad - $114 sounds pretty good.
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        #4
        Originally posted by nando View Post
        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.
        Originally posted by Matt-B
        hey does anyone know anyone who gets upset and makes electronics?

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          #5
          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.

          1992 BMW 325iC
          1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
          1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza 140hp

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            #6
            $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

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              #7
              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
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                #8
                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.

                1992 BMW 325iC
                1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
                1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza 140hp

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                  #9
                  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?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by JasonC View Post
                    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.

                    Originally posted by NitroRustlerDriver View Post
                    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.
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