I replaced mine in early April with a PPG windshield after a couple of rock chips. I think the PPG window is stronger then the factory windshield. Only had it a little over a month tho, so can't tell yet. Have a tiny chip in the glass already, but its only on the 1st layer and didn't buckle the glass or anything, so no need to have it fixed.

I just hate the roads around here. They need to quit using asphault and cover the trucks instead of leaving them open-top.

 

NO way!! It's more likely due to differences in driving and the fact that mine isn't a daily driver. With my S2000 I keep a little more distance between me and the car in front of me hoping to get less damages to the paint over time. I also try not to follow the big-rigs too much since they seem to throw a lot of stuff back -- I'll just pick a different lane or let a buffer car in front of me.

 

Yeah, I don't think I'd wanna try steel wool either.

 

Hi All:

At 700 miles I already had two stone chips in my windshield.

I noticed that on my Stook (US-spec) the window is very probably not the same that goes on the European spec cars. The reason I found out is that the required European marking is not on my windshield.

(My job is to test and approve vehicles for the European market and the mandatory installation of safety glass is one of the subjects I do)

In any event, EU-cars MUST have a marking on the window (where the brand name and a bunch of numbers and DOT numbers are printed). The marking looks like this:


Where the 4 (in the E4 circle) can be any other number (very likely to be a 6, 9 or 13, which indicates approval authority; I work for number 4 hence my preferred example )

Okay, okay, I know I am an authority nerd already!!

In any event, can anybody in Europe or elsewhere verify that the EU-spec window is perhaps stronger or less prone to (premature) failure by experiences???

I look forward to your replies!

Regards,


Siepel

BTW The E-marking is on the side windows!!

 

amartin, I'm with you, the glass pits too easily. I'd also be curious how and aftermarket windsheild would perform.

 

I agree that the windshield is a problem. Mine is pitted in several places. This must be very soft glass.

 

I wonder if it's this way because it's ligher glass.

 

Steel wool on glass. I wanna smoke some too! We should skip physics/chemistry class all together and then we can both be idiots for the rest of our lives!

P.S. Why don't you try it on each and every window of your house so you'll have a baseline for your evaluation.

 

It is because it is a softer glass like Rick stated. The softer the glass is, the less likely it is to get cracked, which some of you are obviously having problems with even as soft as it is. If you were to go with a harder glass, breaking would be more likely. You can't win either way.

Eastwood company sells a glass polishing kit to take out the small stuff that shows up. I have never tried it, but considered it for my BMW 5 series, because like the Honda, BMW's use soft glass!

 

If you're thinking of replacing the windshielf w/ an aftermarket one, look into getting the ones with a strip of tint on the top (I've seen them with bluish and smoke colored tint). I think this looks better than if you go and get that strip tinted later (using regular window tint). It looks more factory if its built into the winshield (so that it fades into the glass and doesn't have a sharp cutoff line as in a cut sheet of window film).