Help! Broken Car Window

salchipapas

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Hey Everyone!
So yesterday someone broke my passenger side window. Unfortunately, it's a FORD SUV and all the places I called don't have our model. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Or know of a place that has american car windows?? So frustrating!! :confused:
 
Was the car ever distributed in Argentina? If so, then windows are available and you just have to keep trying different glass repair places and Ford dealers.
If the car was never distributed in Argentina, then you have 4 options:
1) import a window from USA (big pain and very expensive)
2) have a plexiglass window cut for you and installed.
3) try to find an experienced glass cutter/repair place that can cut you a new glass
4) drive to a country which did legal distribute your car and buy the part there.
 
Can the Ford dealership order the part? Try Chile. We are taking our car there to get fixed in a couple weeks.
 
Nicole_Ramirez said:
Can the Ford dealership order the part? Try Chile. We are taking our car there to get fixed in a couple weeks.

I would think that Uruguay is a bit closer. If you can't bring it into Buenos Aires, you could maybe order it to be delivered to Colonia, then you could run over and pick it up. Otherwise, just take the ferry to Montevideo.

I'd recommend NOT taking your truck, because it's more expensive. But you might want to have it there to make sure that it's the right part. If you do take your SUV, then Colonia is going to be a cheaper ferry ticket.

I'm sure that CFK has something against the part being imported.
 
Not sure about Glass places, but if you follow Juan B Justo west from Santa Fe, you will find a large area that is filled with auto type shops.

RR
 
I'll share a little story about my husband's car and his cracked windshield. :p

Apparently while driving, a rock somehow hit the windshield of his brand new SEAT, cracking it. Not a huge crack nor did it impair vision, but the windshield needed replacing.

He called his dealer since the car was new. The dealer said they had no more in stock, and that all imports of SEATs and parts were blocked (thanks to that car import restriction last year and SEAT coincidentally leaving the country.) He told him to call around and find a place that had the part. :rolleyes: So my husband searched and searched for months to no avail. Nobody had any spare windshields for his car. After about six months he tried calling the dealer back - this time speaking to a different agent who said that the other guy was wrong and they had all the information there for parts and that he'd locate it for him. He called back about 10 minutes later and told him to call a place which had ONE windshield left.

So 6 months and 3000 pesos later, the windshield was replaced. :p Now when I see cars with cracked windshields or dented panels, I can understand why people just ignore it instead of getting it fixed. Nothing is easy here.

My suggestion is to call a Ford dealer or maybe even try your insurance company and see if they have some type of database of preferred vendors for that type of thing... and if they don't give you any suggestions, keep trying as you search on your own. If your car model was never sold here, then your chances of finding a replacement here are slim (and expensive.) ;)
 
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