I just brought my 2024 corvette in for a front windshield replacement. Upon completion, I noticed that the driver's-side A-pillar had a pretty massive gap. The passenger side was also pushed out a bit.
When I brought this up, being a brand new car with less than 500 miles on it, I was told simply that the interior was lined up perfect and when I showed some before photos I had taken (I learned to always take before photos) the installer pointed to the photo where there was clearly no gap and said "yeah see there was a gap before".
When I told him that it looks be have been moved at least a quarter of an inch (which is a lot for a panel gap), he conceded the point and said "well that's just human error" and that the window was lined up perfectly if you check it from the interior.
So I checked it from the interior, using the dot matrix pattern to see how centered the glass truly was, and it's way worse than the panel gap would indicate, in that it's seemingly a good half inch or so to the right.
Keep in mind, the entire time I am not being an irate customer, but I did tell him that this needs to be centered, and that the work just really isn't acceptable. But was told by the installer that it was "perfect" and that he would not be redoing it.
So, let that be a lesson. There are literally hundreds of auto glass shops in the Phoenix area, pick any other one for any car that you care about.
So: The windshield is wildly uncentered, causing panel gaps. As you can see from the photos, even the claim that it is centered "perfectly" is patently false as there's a good inch of black border on one side and none on the other, showing that it is shifted. read more