The Latest: Car's Windshield Replacement

[Grateful11]

[quote kap] Shooh, I should have thought of getting an used windshield and save some money.
Yea but you don't where it's been. LOL

[kap]

Ewww ... Grateful ...

Kap

[Silencio]

Windshields are practically thought of as "consumables" these days, like tires or laptop batteries. We broke a windshield on our car a couple of years ago, and I remember being famously blamed for it on the other forum. Even this "new" windshield has a couple of little pits from pebbles getting kicked up off the road. Grrrr...

[Racer X]

Hey, my windshield got broken when "The Club" whacked into it while my wife was taking it off. Sh*t happens.

[kap]

How did you fill the claim Racer X?

Kap

[quote Racer X] Hey, my windshield got broken when "The Club" whacked into it while my wife was taking it off. Sh*t happens.

[Racer X]

"Something hit the windshield"

Nationwide off-loads all the glass coverage to Safelite, so you actually talk to Safelite when you call.

[kap]

"Something hit the windshield" ... ah-ha.

So Safelite is monopolyzing the windshield market?

Kap

[Racer X]

No, Nationwide just has a contract with safelite, and safelite handles all the basic paperwork. If you call nationwide and hit #3 or whatever, you get transfered straight to safelite's national call center. Nationwide saves money as they don't have to have a portion of their call center dedicated to glass coverage, and they have minimal paperwork to handle for the claim, as safelite processes it for them. I imagine they get weekly or monthly summaries.

Hey, "Something hit my windshield" was accepted as the reason, and I didn't need to elaborate for the claim.