Windscreen options

Post Sat Mar 04, 2017 3:58 pm

Hi,

Quick question. I have a 89 touring currently fitted with the standard clear glass. My windscreen has broken and I am offered 3 options, clear, green or green with green top tint, what would you recommend and would a green screen make the other windows look odd?

Thank you

Post Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:19 pm

Unless the original purchaser specially specified otherwise, your current windscreen will be tinted green.
BMW offered glass in brown tint, green tint and clear. The default option on pre facelift cars was brown, and green on post facelift.

Post Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:15 pm

what colour is your car , there are blue and green top tint screens which are the top drawer items

Post Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:20 pm

Thank you Brian, an in-depth reply as per.

It is malachite green magpie, I wasn't offered blue top-tint although I have seen them.

Post Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:35 pm

i collected my blue top tint from an ebay advert in leeds , he has green and blue top tint for about £100 , he could fit it for you

Post Sun Mar 05, 2017 5:52 pm

magpie wrote:i collected my blue top tint from an ebay advert in leeds , he has green and blue top tint for about £100 , he could fit it for you

let me know where please

Mart.

Post Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:30 pm

martauto wrote:
magpie wrote:i collected my blue top tint from an ebay advert in leeds , he has green and blue top tint for about £100 , he could fit it for you
let me know where please
Mart.

They are on ebay, he has one of each but refuses to deliver.

Post Sun Mar 05, 2017 10:57 pm

i drove there after wanting to purchase a blue top tint for 9 yrs

Post Mon Mar 06, 2017 8:14 am

Bmw offer them at about £220 the toptint from bmw would be green on green

Post Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:37 am

i just order green with green band, original was clear.

bronze is NLA from BMW im told

Post Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:20 am

The ingredient to make bronze is now illegal so nla

Post Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:20 pm

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E30-FRONT ... SwZVlXjfXo

Post Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:36 pm

reggid wrote:i just order green with green band, original was clear.

bronze is NLA from BMW im told

No E30 glass was ever clear.

The only glass that was available from BMW was bronze tint up to sept 87 build date unless Air con or thermo insulated glass was optioned then it would have been green tint.

All cars from sept 87 build date were green tint.

A windscreen with a 'graduated' tint was only available on green tint glass and it was a green top tint.

Post Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:37 pm

bss325i wrote:
reggid wrote:i just order green with green band, original was clear.

bronze is NLA from BMW im told
No E30 glass was ever clear.

The only glass that was available from BMW was bronze tint up to sept 87 build date unless Air con or thermo insulated glass was optioned then it would have been green tint.

All cars from sept 87 build date were green tint.

A windscreen with a 'graduated' tint was only available on green tint glass and it was a green top tint.

Anything else is aftermarket.

I once had a bronze tint screen with a blue top tint!

Post Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:54 pm

... fancy that, interesting notes, id say, i did know nla,, however i do have a few available. just ask

Post Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:47 pm

bss325i wrote: No E30 glass was ever clear.

Never seen any that I know of, but it's listed in the ETK. Part # 51 31 1 876 150 for the front screen.

Post Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:49 pm

It's what they are starting to sell now instead of several options

Post Sat Mar 11, 2017 12:00 am

i have a clear glass window somewhere amongst the unsaleable pile of scrap i have accumulated , it must be aftermarket .... you da boss bro [ bss ]

Post Sat Mar 11, 2017 8:16 am

Just check the markings. No BMW etched into it then not genuine.

Post Sat Mar 11, 2017 6:42 pm

bss325i wrote:Just check the markings. No BMW etched into it then not genuine.

for the price of it and my car not original either i'm more than happy with it .

Post Sun Mar 12, 2017 6:29 pm

magpie wrote:
bss325i wrote:Just check the markings. No BMW etched into it then not genuine.
for the price of it and my car not original either i'm more than happy with it .

Indeed.

I have a non BMW top tint green screen in my sport.

Post Sun Mar 12, 2017 7:07 pm

i got a screen from Magpie's ebay supplier in north Leeds,a green-tint with blue shadeband.

the maker is Fuyao, a Chinese firm that apparently was a bit iffy quality-wise in the past,but are fine now,supplying OEM glass to VAG.

Post Sun Mar 12, 2017 7:56 pm

I wonder if they will make a bronze screen

Post Sun Mar 12, 2017 8:36 pm

DanThe wrote:I wonder if they will make a bronze screen

doesn't that involve cyanide or something highly toxic ?

Post Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:46 am

Yeah but its only Chinamen, they are disposable

Post Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:00 pm

DanThe wrote:Yeah but its only Chinamen, they are disposable

So that makes it OK then does it???
What an attitude towards our fellow humans I ask you !!!

Mart.

ps, Put me down for one as well please mate. lol.

Post Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:06 pm

Shit,, I forgot that I found (my wife did) a rear bronzit screen behind the hut.
Are they still in demand?

Mart.

Post Mon Mar 13, 2017 4:17 pm

Shit its green .
Mart.

Post Mon Mar 13, 2017 6:54 pm

They can do what they want, I just want a new bronze screen