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<blockquote data-quote="YFCvii" data-source="post: 176433" data-attributes="member: 3252"><p>Some make/model cars have windshields available that I have heard referred to as “Chinese Glass”. Lesser expensive and easy cheap quick fix and rather useless defending a pebble strike. I’m not an trade-insider on this though. It came to light when I was shopping a 98 Grand Prix HUD and getting competitive quotes, disclosing my best price to a couple is places who were rather high priced and getting a reply “it must be Chinese Glass”. So I’ve been asking/looking for 3rd party OEM (same manufacturer - just no GM logo on it - like a black square w/o GM written in it). You can google the dot number on your glass to know where it is made and compare to your GM logo dot number on your other glass pieces (if the same). We might be safe not having real cheap corvette windshields out there as they are “structural” as in the C7 (doesn’t have “cheap” glass out there .... yet).</p><p>Arguments against this have been ... same quality glass but very low labour rates in the manufacturing process ... and there’s also arguments of the more costly slow tempering “softer glass” vs the outsource making of “hard glass” glass that even sand impacts might mark/scratch up.</p><p>Here’s my two c7 windshields that you can see the GM logo which is usually just a solid black square on some aftermarket “same manufacturer” OEM windshields ...</p><p>[ATTACH]31479[/ATTACH][ATTACH]31480[/ATTACH]</p><p>Good windshield replacement people are pretty up-and-up about this stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YFCvii, post: 176433, member: 3252"] Some make/model cars have windshields available that I have heard referred to as “Chinese Glass”. Lesser expensive and easy cheap quick fix and rather useless defending a pebble strike. I’m not an trade-insider on this though. It came to light when I was shopping a 98 Grand Prix HUD and getting competitive quotes, disclosing my best price to a couple is places who were rather high priced and getting a reply “it must be Chinese Glass”. So I’ve been asking/looking for 3rd party OEM (same manufacturer - just no GM logo on it - like a black square w/o GM written in it). You can google the dot number on your glass to know where it is made and compare to your GM logo dot number on your other glass pieces (if the same). We might be safe not having real cheap corvette windshields out there as they are “structural” as in the C7 (doesn’t have “cheap” glass out there .... yet). Arguments against this have been ... same quality glass but very low labour rates in the manufacturing process ... and there’s also arguments of the more costly slow tempering “softer glass” vs the outsource making of “hard glass” glass that even sand impacts might mark/scratch up. Here’s my two c7 windshields that you can see the GM logo which is usually just a solid black square on some aftermarket “same manufacturer” OEM windshields ... [ATTACH alt="C572006E-B90A-4D20-87F7-29DA6D1CBED1.jpeg"]31479[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="3893BF93-8215-4D4E-8320-ABF5D90B52EB.jpeg"]31480[/ATTACH] Good windshield replacement people are pretty up-and-up about this stuff. [/QUOTE]
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