Blackbeauty

Thank you all for your replies. Here is the latest. Turns out, the place where my car was being inspected, for end of warranty, was responsible for the crack. As I had only left thier premises and it happened straight after, they had somehow contributed to the cause of crack. They will be replacing the windscreen after all at no cost to me. I'm very lucky indeed. So tomorrow, I'm calling my insurer to add this small cost to my policy, I don't need this headache any time soon.

Hi I'm new to this forum and would really like someone's opinion on this matter. I bought an IS250 2007 model 3 months ago. Yesterday while driving my windscreen cracked from the base to about the middle. There's no indent anywhere just a clean crack. I know it wasn't a rock or stone or anything like that as I would have heard it hit the screen. My delima now is do I get a genuine replaced screen or are after market ones just as good and do the job. Unfortunately I did not include the windscreen option in in my insurance. I have already got a few quotes and they seems very different. One sounded ok, saying he would replace the the moulding which he says is just cosmetic....don't really know what that means though!! So anyone know which company is reliable for non genuine or should I not bother. And BTW what does OEM stand for? Appreciate any feedback.