New windscreen

[Peter Palmer]

What price are you looking at to have a new screen fitted in the B9 berlingo? 2010 model so no heated screen or anything like that, there is a round disc stuck to it which I'm assuming is a GPS antenna for the sat nav thing, which I don't use.

On a totally unrelated matter why would anyone make a van that can only carry a 2.99 meter long copper tube?

[Hardnut]

I'v just had mine replaced at start of the month.
2011 mk3 car , national wind screens £147 cash price.

[Peter Palmer]

That's not too bad, was expecting at least a couple of hundred.

[Hardnut]

simlar to your self, pushing a surf board in.
Choice was £95 through insurance but obv cost once renew.
Most expensive was Autoglass at £350 ish and that was a quote with online chat, they could of done better by "phone" but if they can't do good price via any contact means they can swivel.
Called around my area 1st see what was best. National came up trumps.

[Peter Palmer]

Just to close this thread, its a thumbs up from National Windscreens, £145 cash but still got an invoice so I assume it would be the same with a card payment. I did help him in with the glass though, the fitter reckoned they were pretty dead at the moment and he only had my job on that day. Seems strange with the state of the roads nowadays, I'm always getting shrapnel hitting the windscreen wherever I drive nowadays getting chucked up from the car or truck in front, maybe everyone just runs to the insurance nowadays without a second thought and the insurance pay £350 to Autoglass instead of shopping round.

[geoff]

What price are you looking at to have a new screen fitted in the B9 berlingo?

On a totally unrelated matter why would anyone make a van that can only carry a 2.99 meter long copper tube?

1/ The windscreen excess on an insurance policy ..... well why not eh !!

2/ 3 metres, well not everyone is a plumber
Why not 5 metres ?? would have been better for me when I did pipe fitting .... horses for courses.

[ffrenchie]

On a totally unrelated matter why would anyone make a van that can only carry a 2.99 meter long copper tube?

Why would you buy a Berlingo when you obviously needed something bigger would be my question. Several plumbers round here use them but they had the foresight to add a roof rack and a tube to fit their piping in  You need a Dispatch size van not a Berlingo/Kangoo type vehicle.

[Peter Palmer]

On a totally unrelated matter why would anyone make a van that can only carry a 2.99 meter long copper tube?

Why would you buy a Berlingo when you obviously needed something bigger would be my question. Several plumbers round here use them but they had the foresight to add a roof rack and a tube to fit their piping in  You need a Dispatch size van not a Berlingo/Kangoo type vehicle.

We have a Dispatch as well, we are electricians not plumbers but I was doing a bit of plumbing as a one off for my mate, My point was whats the point of making a van that's just not quite big enough to take something that is a very common item, its like vans that are half an inch too small to take a 8x4 sheet of ply or plasterboard, its bizarre. 

[geoff]

When I had a Berlingo Van before my Mutispace I often carried a sheet or two of plasterboard or Celotex inside the vehicle on a wet day.

Not the most convenient perhaps but needs must when the Devil drives.

I found that if you flat slide the board into the vehicle then up onto the seat head rests and then up into the roof parcel shelf above the drivers head it would go in reasonably well and without any corner damage - care needed of course.

The real downside is you need to slide down in the drivers seat and be happy to suffer the board resting on your head.

I only live 2 miles from Wickes so not too big a deal.

[ffrenchie]

We have a Dispatch as well, we are electricians not plumbers but I was doing a bit of plumbing as a one off for my mate, My point was whats the point of making a van that's just not quite big enough to take something that is a very common item, its like vans that are half an inch too small to take a 8x4 sheet of ply or plasterboard, its bizarre.

So you still blame the van for being too small even though you had access to the Dispatch   Nissan Kubistar, Renault Kangoo, Vauxhall Kombo and Fiat Fiorino all vans in the same category and I bet you can't get a length of plumbing pipe in any of them. We wrap a rag round the end of the pipe and trap it with the passenger side window for future reference and that's in an older M59 car not van