Some of the costs truly are infuriating. The other day I was looking at a fairly late model car and it had a cracked windshield. I wondered what it would cost to fix it so I called up window shop... can’t remember the exact value but it was X amount for the windshield replacement, about another $300 since it had a feature to sense rain.... but that’s not all, it was about another $300 to calibrate the rain sensing device.
Better than that, BMW now requires that a windscreen replacement be done when the car is clamped to a frame table (as if they were going to do collision repair)
Of course BMW has proprietary body clamps so not ever every body shop can do that.
What glass shop has a frame table ? (unless it is part of a body shop)
The car is not clamped to a table at the factor when they install the windscreens at the factory, but it is supposedly necessary for a windshield repair.
This is just BS to drive repairs to the dealers and “authorized collision repair”.