OEM Windshield Images

[ScrapIron]

It costs me $2 to get in and browse all day. I will try to get over there tomorrow and have a look. Its 1730 here already so its to late to go today.

[JWA]

Originally Posted by 1der

Ahhh, so the black spot helps locate the button and protects the adhesive.

Yes---before the black spot mirrors were known to fall off the glass due the adhesive losing its grip due the sun's heat.

Originally Posted by 1der

I removed my mirror from the button since it was a pain putting up the sun shield and all it allowed me to see was essentially the interior. I have thought about using the button to mount the GPS, DashCam or ScanGauge.

That would be an excellent new use----most of us do not use the inside rear view mirror anyway. If we've done any sort of build out the rear windows are pretty much blocked to anything directly behind our vans.

[Kibo]

JWA, I have an aftermarket windshield but it doesn't have a black spot for the rear mirror button mount. Let me know if that would be of help to you?

[JWA]

Originally Posted by Kibo

JWA, I have an aftermarket windshield but it doesn't have a black spot for the rear mirror button mount. Let me know if that would be of help to you?

Hey Kibo----an image of the logo area and your van's year would be great!

Thanks

J W

[Kibo]

Originally Posted by JWA

Hey Kibo----an image of the logo area and your van's year would be great!

No problem. Our van is a 2011. Here's the logo:



And no black spot:



Sorry for all the glare/reflections, took these in a rush.

[JWA]

Originally Posted by ScrapIron

It costs me $2 to get in and browse all day. I will try to get over there tomorrow and have a look. Its 1730 here already so its to late to go today.

I'm fully okay with a $2 cover charge! If there would be additional charges that yields what I'm seeking that's fair too.

As can be seen though so far no one has the factory original windshield still installed, the logo's telling the full story. If you happen across a true original that'd be fantastic!

Originally Posted by Kibo

No problem. Our van is a 2011. Here's the logo:

And no black spot:

Sorry for all the glare/reflections, took these in a rush.

No apologies needed---these images are great---thank you!

That particular windshield looks to have been replaced somewhere along the line---Pilkington, a good brand, was never OEM for Ford plus the DW1504 wasn't on the factory-supplied parts.

The DW1504--of which I have one myself---seemed hit and miss with the black spot I'm trying to avoid, quite the puzzle to me. Perhaps in the earliest days of that number's production it was not, later production before being phased out had it present.

Good gosh I wish was wasn't so anal about such a small thing.

[ScrapIron]

This van didnt even have a mirror in it... It was a 1998

[ScrapIron]

Then there was this one... its not a DW1504 but it still has the black spot.

[ScrapIron]

Then this one.... My guess is this is the one youre looking for?
The first set i posted, the DW1292 has no black spot or mirror for that matter, but its obviously an after market windshield.
This one is a DW1175 and there was another van there with this same DW1175 and no black spot.

[Lilnuts2]

You won't get any factory installed van windshields from Colorado they only last a year or 2 here. Lol