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Never updated on this. Did go with Autoglass in the end. Guy came to the house, removed the screen. First thing we found was a corrosion spot and some metal missing from about a 2cm area at one side of the lower body windscreen surround. This was under the screen bonding. With the bond broken by the corrosion, flexing of the screen had caused it to crack. Guy said really that corrosion should be cleaned up and small piece welded in if I wanted a permanent repair. Obviously didnt have time for that and now the windscreen was out and looking like rain ! So he suggests (no guarantees) that what they usually do on small gaps is clean it up, spot paint repair, fill the gap with extra bonding material then put the normal screen bonding over the top. "usually does the job". So we went with that. Now onto my concerns about seals and clips etc. Mentioned the rubber dams. Had he got them ? Yes, he says but they aren't really needed. Asked him to put them in. Turns out he had a complete fitting kit that the comes from the windscreen company, including all the clips. But unless you are watching and prompt them, they are going to save time a replace the bare minimum. Turned out most of the clips were in good nick and only replaced a few. Not in the fitting kit was the side plastic trim. On mine the original had split. Had to be refitted as was. My only complaint about the overall job was that later this trim became loose and popped out every time there was hot weather. Still haven't got round to fixing it properly back in place........... Screen still ok, no sign of a crack reappearing, mostly all good