The Cost Of Replacing An Aston Martin's Windscreen Will Make You Weep
A used Aston Martin may be cheap to buy, but sure as hell not cheap to run, as demonstrated by the hideous cost of this windscreen replacement
Recently, motoring journalist and Jalopnik columnist Freddy ‘Tavarish’ Hernandez got his hands on the V8 Vantage owned and run by a certain Doug DeMuro. It chucked out some hilariously expensive bills during Doug’s ownership, and it looks to be doing the same with Tavarish, as seen by this windscreen repair bill, which weighed in well over $4000. Cripes.
Thank god it was covered under insurance…
Via Jalopnik
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It’s more expensive than my whole car…
Mine too
That’s like 2 paychecks overhear
I would literally buy 4 cars like mine for this money :’D
I could buy 6 ek civics with the same amount of money.
$4000?! Eh, who needs windshields when you can have car parts XD
But… Windshields are car parts. I’d still just go get a custom windshield made by a glass company though, it’d definitely come out cheaper.
That is why you need a bumper to bumper warranty
lol
but insurance in the US always covers a windshield replacement,
What are windows?
No windscreen= Weight reduction bro!
4000 for a Aston Windshield doens’t seam that bad to me if i didn’t have a friend with a Body Shop the replacement of my Cherokee’s Windshield would have cost me close to 2200 Swiss Francs (that 1900 Euros)
I believe that we have abnormal prices in switzerland ;)
Depends of the rarity and complexity of the windscreen, but a very simple windshield for Volvo 940 cost 800-900eur here in Norway (which is one of the cheaper ones)
Remember, this is DeMuro’s Vantage. So I completely expected this.
Mine was €1200 on a 2011 Mazda 6 sport so I don’t think that’s too steep!
In the US a windshield for a new BMW X5 is over 3000 dollars my mom cracked her screen a while back
4000? That’s not bad at all. My Audi is probably just as expensive lol
Might have saved a bit if you asked for a price before leaving it into get fixed. But that was a ridiculous price