our windshields suck
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our windshields suck
about 2 weeks after i got my car a rock hit my windshied and left a hole in it. well 8 months later, tonight, i was driving home from my girlfriends house and as i was making a turn i noticed a line slowly moving across my winshield. i thought it was a drop of melted snow cause my car was covered in it. well i put on my wipers and i was wrong. turns out i hae a horizontal crack about 3 quaters the length of my windshield. now i need to get it replaced cause as i hit bumps in the road i can actually see the crack geetting longer 
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sorry but that is kinda your own fault.....
whenever i get rock chips in my windscreen i get them filled. its cheap and it works.
if you dont get the little holes fixed they grow ( as you found out)
whenever i get rock chips in my windscreen i get them filled. its cheap and it works.
if you dont get the little holes fixed they grow ( as you found out)
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Originally Posted by ADAM_ROB_UK,Dec 7 2005, 04:31 AM
sorry but that is kinda your own fault.....
whenever i get rock chips in my windscreen i get them filled. its cheap and it works.
if you dont get the little holes fixed they grow ( as you found out)
whenever i get rock chips in my windscreen i get them filled. its cheap and it works.
if you dont get the little holes fixed they grow ( as you found out)
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From: Kansas City, MO
Originally Posted by kempster,Dec 7 2005, 03:55 AM
about 2 weeks after i got my car a rock hit my windshied and left a hole in it. well 8 months later, tonight, i was driving home from my girlfriends house and as i was making a turn i noticed a line slowly moving across my winshield. i thought it was a drop of melted snow cause my car was covered in it. well i put on my wipers and i was wrong. turns out i hae a horizontal crack about 3 quaters the length of my windshield. now i need to get it replaced cause as i hit bumps in the road i can actually see the crack geetting longer
After going on a 'fun run' with some S2000s from Kansas City I had several, and I mean several, rock chips on my windsheild previously. A few weeks ago, I opened the door into my garage to leave for work at 7 in the morning to discover a monster crack on my windsheild.
I am assuming that the rocks weakened the glass (though I am unsure how it could get any weaker), and then the drastic temperature changes we have been having here caused the crack.
Hope you get it fixed without too much trouble....I paid $300.
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Nothing comes close to the inferiority of Mini Cooper's windshield. Stress crack, chips, holes, and pitting is an everyday occurence. There are some owners that had to repalce their windshield four-five times. And BMW still refuses to accept that there is a huge problem with their product.
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From: Upstate NY
Originally Posted by kempster,Dec 7 2005, 05:55 AM
about 2 weeks after i got my car a rock hit my windshied and left a hole in it. well 8 months later, tonight, i was driving home from my girlfriends house and as i was making a turn i noticed a line slowly moving across my winshield. i thought it was a drop of melted snow cause my car was covered in it. well i put on my wipers and i was wrong. turns out i hae a horizontal crack about 3 quaters the length of my windshield. now i need to get it replaced cause as i hit bumps in the road i can actually see the crack geetting longer
My experience says that any windshield left unrepaired will do this over time. Especially here in NY when the cold pot hole season starts.