I think you mistook OEM for aftermarket there. OEM means original equipment manufacturer. In case of the EX30, the OEM is Saint-Gobain Sekurit. The company Volvo buys their glass from (they don’t make their own, obviously) – you guessed it – is also Saint-Gobain Sekurit. Volvo just puts a Volvo sticker in some corner of the glass, increases the price by 30%, and pushes it out the door making sure that you as the customer know to only ever buy the “genuine Volvo part”. At the very best, you could call Volvo a VAR, but that doesn’t make a spare they had zero part in manufacturing in, “genuine”. It’s Saint-Gobain Sekurit glass with a Volvo sticker (where the VAR, or “value added reseller”) comes in. Same for Bosch (or Denso/NGK) sparkilators. They’re not “genuine Volvo parts”, they’re Bosch parts with a Volvo sticker and more expensive. If the mechanic didn’t break the camera, there would be 100% zero issues with OEM glass.
All I know is it has a Volvo logo. So I presume the same that was on the car originally and it was source from Volvo as AG couldn’t get one from anywhere else.
Yep On the ex30 Facebook group others had no issues with re-calibration. The issue was the 1st technician didn’t realise he had broken the camera and tried for almost 2 hrs to do so. Then the 2nd took less that 20mins to decide that was the issue, when I went to them again almost 2 weeks later.
So the car needs now to go to Volvo and it’s on them, but I do not accept it’s now somehow unsafe to drive.
EX30 SMER Ultra