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YOUR RESEARCHIs this a crack in the window?? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
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All four were replaced with aftermarket windshields.
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I've replaced four windshields the past 10 months on my cars.
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Replace window
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My window was replaced about 10years ago with a Pilkington aftermarket and no leaks whatsoever.
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Replace windshield and put one in without the antenna
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You have it or someone replaced your windshield and put one in without the antenna.
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Check their windows
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Can anyone check their windows for this, it looks like a crack once you put light into it
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Any idea on cost for replacement? My window guy suggests only a Porsche replacement due to aftermarket’s having water leaks. It’s the base window no sensors or anything
what oem rain sensors? Looks just like the antenna on my 2000 & 2003. Does the line go all the way to the top and then over to the middle?
Check with your insurance company, most include windshield replacement.
Sorry mine's in storage, but I vaguely recall seeing a wire in mine. Which made me think it's an antenna like the old 70's U.S. cars.
If I'm seeing the pic correctly, it looks like it's going up the passenger side A-pillar, correct? If so, I'm with Stl-986. It's an antenna.
To the question of cost of replacing a windshield OEM vs aftermarket. I've replaced four windshields the past 10 months on my cars. Two were cracked and two (both of which came from Arizona) were original windshields that were pitted and had just seen better days. All four were replaced with aftermarket windshields. I've had zero issues with any type of distortion, no leaks, no problems at all.
Cost of each installed was just a few dollars under $500.
It's definitely the radio antenna inside the windshield. I've got a replacement PGW windshield, with the same thing and the same kink at the bottom. You can follow this thing all the way from the passenger side base of the windshield along the A pillar, across the top of the windshield and down the center on mine, because there is black on the inside of the windshield behind it.
And it then goes along the top to the passenger side and then down to the cowl. Porsche has been doing this for decades along with many other mfg so they dont have to put an external antenna on the car.
