Automotive Windscreens - How many have you done?

[Whiskey 7]

Automotive Windscreens

Like it says, I am just wondering, aside from vehicle crashes and the obvious I just how many car windscreens have you had to replace because of stone chips and the inevitable cracks?

I near 40 years of driving I found my first today

I don't know where it came from but while washing my 3 week old car I found a crack in the windscreen
Luckily it is in for service in a couple of weeks and I figure they can replace it then...

So tell us your stories. I am hungry

PS See my sig and search for my auto history

[Foo]

On work placement in high school I spent 2 weeks at a garage, and for one job ended up prising a ford transit windscreen out of its frame using a couple of butter knives. Serious pro tools, etc.

I nearly had to get the windscreen replaced on the Elan. Fortunately that 'filler' stuff they do at Autoglass did a good enough job to get it through its MOT. If I had gone for a replacement, the only options available were knock-off 3rd party screens, where the glass is really thin in the middle. Because of the warp of the screen and the way it's almost a structural element in the Elan, once you lost the stock glass, it was all downhill from there.

Oh yeah, and on the way across Leeds to get the chip filled, I hit a pothole so deep it put a great big flat spot in the wheel, and cracked one of the suspension bulkhead thingies.

Not that it matters now ;|

[Geebs]

I broke one with my skull. Fortunately it wasn't my car

[axbaby]

i destroyed a windscreen on a LandRover just by smashing a freaky looking insect.
I didn't hit the windsheild very hard.

[Whiskey 7]

Foo, yes I have heard the crack may get bigger through some road shocks as you speak of (potholes/bumps)

i destroyed a windscreen on a LandRover just by smashing a freaky looking insect.
I didn't hit the windsheild very hard.

Must have been one hell of a bug

I broke one with my skull. Fortunately it wasn't my car

That's got to hurt. OK the windscreen was a right-off but your skull, and permanent damage

[Grudge]

I rented a car last summer, a Audi A4 TDi, and cracked the windshield on it the first day. Granted, it was a stone ship from a truck on the highway, so not really my fault. Fortunately I'd got the extended insurance thing, so it didn't cost me a dime.

[Geebs]

That's got to hurt. OK the windscreen was a right-off but your skull, and permanent damage

That was getting run over right outside the hospital I work at. It says quite a lot that I refused to let the police get me checked out in my own A&E department

Isn't it annoying how the cops insist on writing down everything you say word-for-word, even when you've just been hit very hard on the head?

[AmIdYfReAk]

4 to date,

Waiting to cut out my current one, and replace it....

But finding the Glass and trim is proving to be a bitch.

[Giraffe }{unter]

Only 1 it was a Car I was not using and was siting out in the sun all summer. I'm guessing the heat caused the crack.

[AmIdYfReAk]

Heat cycles with a prior chip will do it,

Also, a flaw in the glass and a sudden temperature change will get it done as well... that was windshield #2

keep that in mind next time you wash your car on a hot summer day.

[Whiskey 7]

Heat cycles with a prior chip will do it,

Also, a flaw in the glass and a sudden temperature change will get it done as well... that was windshield #2

keep that in mind next time you wash your car on a hot summer day.

I wonder if that is were mine was born? A small chip and expansion physics

Hey Geebs you must tell that story in another topic I do wonder with a head injury what the coppers actually got out of you?

.................. It says quite a lot that I refused to let the police get me checked out in my own A&E department

Isn't it annoying how the cops insist on writing down everything you say word-for-word, even when you've just been hit very hard on the head?

[Theftbot]

I knew a Woman that lived in las vegas she decided to wash her own porsche, as soon as the cold water hit it went spider webs.

[Whiskey 7]

Made some calls here Monday to insurance company and repair/replacement places.

The Dealer, well their service department where I bought the car quotes $770(AUD)and the well known local (perhaps national) company quotes $411. Go figure

It is being replaced Tuesday. Fingers crossed

[Whiskey 7]

Made some calls here Monday to insurance company and repair/replacement places.

The Dealer, well their service department where I bought the car quotes $770(AUD)and the well known local (perhaps national) company quotes $411. Go figure :offended:

It is being replaced Tuesday. Fingers crossed

Well left work early and attended the brand name company and it is all done, just like new

Only a small failure on their part. They wanted to 'double side tape' my original electronic toll transponder back on.
I said "No way".
I have heard only the original windscreen surface mount sticky stuff works on these little and the double sided tape (good intention) replacements fall off too easily...

Moral to take away: Always get at the least a second opinion even from your trusted experts