HaroldJenkins
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- '04 Mountaineer
I was looking through some other threads regarding this issue. I have a '04 Mountaineer with broken hinge pins on the rear glass. It hasn't fallen out yet.
This morning I took it in to the local dealer for a repair estimate. They called back 30 minutes later and said that they recommend replacing the entire back glass which would include a new plastic trim piece and painting to match. The bill would be around $1000. Yikes. It would be nice to get that done since I have the usual crack in the plastic by the Mercury emblem. But that's more money than I'm willing to cough up at the moment.
He also said they can just do the hinges for $400 but he said they haven't had the best luck with the replacements. Something about the plastic piece not going on right or something like that.
Even the hinge job seems a bit high in my opinion but what do I know?
I'm seriously contemplating buying the parts and doing it myself. My luck is that after I do this job myself, Ford will later come out and pay for the repair only if it's done at the dealer. That's what happened when I replaced the cracked intake manifold on my old '96 Grand Marquis and did it myself.
Do you folks have any recommendations or past experience?
By the way, hello all. I'm new here.
This morning I took it in to the local dealer for a repair estimate. They called back 30 minutes later and said that they recommend replacing the entire back glass which would include a new plastic trim piece and painting to match. The bill would be around $1000. Yikes. It would be nice to get that done since I have the usual crack in the plastic by the Mercury emblem. But that's more money than I'm willing to cough up at the moment.
He also said they can just do the hinges for $400 but he said they haven't had the best luck with the replacements. Something about the plastic piece not going on right or something like that.
Even the hinge job seems a bit high in my opinion but what do I know?
I'm seriously contemplating buying the parts and doing it myself. My luck is that after I do this job myself, Ford will later come out and pay for the repair only if it's done at the dealer. That's what happened when I replaced the cracked intake manifold on my old '96 Grand Marquis and did it myself.
Do you folks have any recommendations or past experience?
By the way, hello all. I'm new here.