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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

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 ;|

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

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

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

axbaby wrote: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

Geebs wrote: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

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.

Whiskey 7 wrote: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?

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.

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.

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.

AmIdYfReAk wrote: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?

Geebs wrote:.................. 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?

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.

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 wrote: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