3000 Baht to replace rubber seal around honda car windshield? Is this a normal price?

[creative1000]

In the past 2 years, some rubber strips have dried, cracked & broken off the outside of the windshield (along the driver and passenger sides). Already 2 monsoons later, and no water has gotten inside the car.... *yet*, so the seal, although cracked, is still holding up. Anyways, the dealership said the normal cost to replace just the rubber seal is 3000 Baht.  But this seems a bit steep, and nearly the cost of getting a new windshield? Is this the normal price?

[transam]

Sounds OK to me.....

[creative1000]

@transam Thank you! I know nothing of auto costs. Just wanted to check I wasn't paying $85 for a $15 repair.

[TimeMachine]

Have you checked out YouTube for some diy videos. Maybe you can butcher up a half assed repair yourself that will be good enough.

[Kwasaki]

Don't go to a Honda dealership.

[JeffersLos]

A tube of silicone, 240 baHT.  

[Ralf001]

Dealership won't be doing it.

 

They will outsource to a windscreen repair shop and then add the dealership markup to that price.

[The Fugitive]

39 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Don't go to a Honda dealership.

Or any other dealership. Anywhere. They are all ripoff merchants.

[JeffersLos]

Get the motorcycle taxi guys to do it, or any male over the age of 12, yourself excluded.

[Kwasaki]

7 minutes ago, The Fugitive said:

Or any other dealership. Anywhere. They are all ripoff merchants.

OP should ask where a windshield fitter is and go there, they will do it while he waits. 

[Lacessit]

Get a few more quotes from independent mechanics, most dealerships regard customers as pigeons ripe for plucking.

Or, as another poster has suggested, buy a tube of silicone and an applicator.

[TheFishman1]

Go to windshield repair place. I’ll do it a lot cheaper while you wait. TIT

[HauptmannUK]

On all Hondas made within about the last 25 years the windscreen is bonded into the body aperture using a hybrid polymer adhesive. The windscreen is therefore structural and stiffens the bodyshell.  The rubber 'seals' are just trim.  

To do a proper job the windscreen should be cut out with a cheese wire cutter, cleaned up, resealed and new trims fitted.  ฿3000 would be a very reasonable price.  On the other hand if they just intend pulling out the old trim and replacing with new then its a bit pricey.

As others have said, best to go to a screen replacement specialist for a second opinion.

[brianthainess]

There are products on Laz that seek and seal, then thicker (Black) silicon can be applied, build it up slowly if you have to, soapy water at hand to smooth it. good luck. 

[sammieuk1]

A few months ago I had an ABS sensor changed on a Mitsubishi lancer for 7500bt and that was a bit of rubber with a lump on the end you appear to be getting a lot more rubber at less than half that price pay it a barging ???? 

[kennypowers]

£65 odd quid! That's so cheap. Would likely cost 200-300 back in the UK. 

[schultzlivgthai]

Check the price online for the new seal, I’m sure a local body shop or windshield shop would do it for quite a bit less. 

[1FinickyOne]

4 hours ago, Lacessit said:

Get a few more quotes

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[Kwasaki]

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

A few months ago I had an ABS sensor changed on a Mitsubishi lancer for 7500bt and that was a bit of rubber with a lump on the end you appear to be getting a lot more rubber at less than half that price pay it a barging ???? 

So you drive like you need ABS. ????

[tgw]

1 hour ago, kennypowers said:

£65 odd quid! That's so cheap. Would likely cost 200-300 back in the UK. 

still no reason to overpay

[Grusa]

If we knew your location we could advise you where to go! 

[ujayujay]

6 hours ago, TimeMachine said:

Have you checked out YouTube for some diy videos. Maybe you can butcher up a half assed repair yourself that will be good enough.

????????????Pay cheap, get cheap????????????

[snowgard]

You  or wife/girlfriend can ask here: https://www.thaicarglass.com/

[JoseThailand]

Normal farang price haha

[Road Warrior]

22 hours ago, TimeMachine said:

Have you checked out YouTube for some diy videos. Maybe you can butcher up a half assed repair yourself that will be good enough.

why not DO A    D I Y with mastic !!!

[KhunBENQ]

16 hours ago, Grusa said:

If we knew your location we could advise you where to go! 

Was just to post the same question.

 

I would surely take off my hands from any DIY at a car windshield.

 

[TravelerEastWest]

21 hours ago, The Fugitive said:

Or any other dealership. Anywhere. They are all ripoff merchants.

I have an Isuzu and go to the dealer in CBiang Mai over ten years just routine maintenance slightly higher than a small shop but much better work is done. They go by the book and use the correct parts.

 

Dealers are good and bad as are small shops...

[phetpeter]

Simple answer as already been stated ...DONT go to a Honda dealership, you will find many locations who will do the job cheaper, perhaps if you had number one insurance and a cracked windscreen, it would be replaced along with the windscreen under insurance!

Edited May 19, 2023 by phetpeter

[phetpeter]

 232 baht Lazada

[Ralf001]

20 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

So you drive like you need ABS. ????

Does a bit of barging so ABS prolly getting a workout.