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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Kameleon » Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:43 am

Count me in Rob, again!

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Tue Dec 03, 2013 9:22 am

Let's get the order up to ten - and I'll press the big green button on the purchase! :D

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by andywatson » Tue Dec 03, 2013 7:42 pm

Me and Allan will have one. That's 8 now.

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:33 am

Awesome: once I get 10 firm expressions of interest, I'll get on the phone to Richard.

Richard will want to paid by one person for the whole order - so I'll need to give this some thought as my PayPal does not put payments into my current account... Any one have any suggestions?

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Kameleon » Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:47 pm

Just to add to this, Uroglass make the screens for Ricky Evans (info found over on Seloc) so maybe worth a call?

As for payment, how was the payment arranged for the Swedish alloys way back when?

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Dec 04, 2013 2:08 pm

I wasn't involved with that group purchase - but would like to know?

Interesting that we have the source for the screens - I could approach them directly, but they may prefer to go through Ricky Evans, we'll see. The price that Richard was quoting is less than a standard screen from X-Part, so I didn't really look into it much further at the time.

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by talkingcars » Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:45 pm

Might be worth asking - http://uroglas.com/index.html

The ZS ones that Ricky Evens has supplied were made overseas, not sure where but they arrived in the UK by container.
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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by sniperpenguin » Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:41 pm

Could be interested (Seriously), but could a "group fitting" day be organised?

That way, the whole electrics / switchgear / operation could be solved in one fell swoop ;)
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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:56 pm

I did speak to a local windscreen fitter at the last attempt to get the group buy off the ground. I could speak to him again? The electrics is an interesting question. On project Shed at the moment, I have a couple of electric fan heaters on the rear demist circuit - and that works a treat. Whether you'd want to do that on a road car? Not sure - I don't really see why not - or you could fit an alternative switch. Either way, I wonder how many people would want to work out their own solution?

Also bear in mind folks that the screens are sold without an electrical plug for the heater elements - so good and bad: bad that you'll have to sort out your own electrical connector, but good because if you've sourced your own, you don't need to worry about figuring out what's already there! :lol:

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by austingarages » Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:09 am

Good news for Mk2 MGF and TF owners for a switch, freelander 01 to 04MY has a rare heated screen option from the factory, the bad news it's mounted sideways...
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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Tue Dec 10, 2013 9:35 am

Oooh! That's cool! 8-)

I take it that option didn't exist for earlier cars then? :lol:

I'll do a new tally of the definitely interesteds - Nick, can I tempt you to join the group buy? ;)

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by smithp25 » Fri Apr 11, 2014 3:00 pm

Is this still on?

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by MaddAussie » Fri Apr 11, 2014 4:46 pm

austingarages wrote:Good news for Mk2 MGF and TF owners for a switch, freelander 01 to 04MY has a rare heated screen option from the factory, the bad news it's mounted sideways...
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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:18 am

I've no funds right now - but perhaps later in the year I'll have the money to go ahead and make this happen: I need to shed a little more weight from Project Shed, and have a slightly more effective demisting solution than a couple of eBay electric hair driers! :lol:

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:16 am

Good news - Chris Johnson has put together another group buy for these heated windscreens from Ricky Evans. Same deal as before - but the price has gone up :( Now £225 + VAT for a minimum order of 5, or £205 + VAT for a minimum order of 10.

The good news is that Chris already has enough orders for 8 of these units - so only two more definite orders are required to reach the cheaper bulk-buy purchase price.

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:25 am

I've just heard from Chris - the deadline for deposits is the 15th September - and now he has 10 orders for the screen, so we're looking at the lower price. :)

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by colintf » Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:03 pm

Rob Bell wrote:I've just heard from Chris - the deadline for deposits is the 15th September - and now he has 10 orders for the screen, so we're looking at the lower price. :)

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:58 pm

Ideal for me with a pair of electrical demisters that make noise but little heat and an owner with an increasing desire to lose as much weight from the car as possible! :lol:

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Re: Anyone interested in an electrically heated windscreen?

Post by talkingcars » Thu Sep 04, 2014 1:09 pm

I'll be paying a deposit tonight. I have one of their screens in my ZS, use it all the time.
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