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wagohn
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 Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:17 pm Post subject: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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Hi all,
Anyone know if the early and late bays all use the same front windshield? Same size?
Thanks!
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Wildthings
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:22 am Post subject: Re: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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| wagohn wrote: |
Hi all,
Anyone know if the early and late bays all use the same front windshield? Same size?
Thanks! |
Especially if you are tall, avoid buying a windshield with the tint strip across the top. |
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wagohn
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:37 am Post subject: Re: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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| Wildthings wrote: |
| wagohn wrote: |
Hi all,
Anyone know if the early and late bays all use the same front windshield? Same size?
Thanks! |
Especially if you are tall, avoid buying a windshield with the tint strip across the top. |
Thanks, agreed. So the buses all use the same sized windshield?
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skills@eurocarsplus
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:07 am Post subject: Re: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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it's the same glass from 68 to 79 on a US spec bus. I would assume it's still the same on mexi/ROW buses but can't confirm that for a fact
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wagohn
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:38 am Post subject: Re: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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| skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
| it's the same glass from 68 to 79 on a US spec bus. I would assume it's still the same on mexi/ROW buses but can't confirm that for a fact |
Thanks!
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Manfred58sc
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:42 am Post subject: Re: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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I think Sigla glass ended in 71-72. dimensionally no changes. Quality sure went down after the Sigla period. Now with the PP-whatever Chinese glass you are a micro pebble away from a nice crack.
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favguy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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| skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
| it's the same glass from 68 to 79 on a US spec bus. I would assume it's still the same on mexi/ROW buses but can't confirm that for a fact |
Windscreen aperture size never changed for sure. The very last buses in 2013 still used the same size glass.
Be aware that some aftermarket glass might not be sized quite right though! |
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SGKent 
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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yes the same. Try to find old stock thicker glass and it will last longer. The thin stuff breaks easily. Our windshields are too vertical to take rock chips compared to the slopes on modern cars.
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 11:58 am Post subject: Re: Early and Late Bay - Same Windshield |
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| yes the same. Try to find old stock thicker glass and it will last longer. The thin stuff breaks easily. Our windshields are too vertical to take rock chips compared to the slopes on modern cars. |
Having sloping rather than vertical armoured-plate, is how Russian T34 tanks got away with having thinner armour than German Panzer Mk. IV tanks. Shells or rocks simply strike the surface with a glancing blow which changes their direction and absorbs only a small fraction of their kinetic energy. 
During October 1990 to September 1991, when I was at the RMCS - Royal Military College of Science, I had the opportunity to see the Iraqi tanks that were brought back after "Desert Storm". Most looked as though they had been involved in traffic-collisions rather than sustaining battle damage.
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