What is the presumed correlation between Colorado and windshield cracks?
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100 billionty percent correct.
Here it’s rocks, chip seal, and massive temperature swings, like -30 to +30 F in a few hours.
Sometimes just hitting a pothole when it is -20 will absolutely create cracks, and certainly propagate them from existing rock chips.
No salt here equals gravel.
Filling chips as soon as they form from rock strikes is key, it’s really easy to do.
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We don't have inspection in MT, so both my cars have cracks that run the width of my field of vision...
I suppose I'd replace them if Johnny Law said so...
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The preponderance of gravel used in place of salt in the winter. Perpetually cracked windshields, but no rust.
I'd take that over the salt that Vermont uses.
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Pedaled to nowhere in my basement. Trimmed some trees. Had a nap with Isla. Ate more pulled pork. Twas a glorious afternoon.
I’ll consider myself lucky. In my 6 years out there I didn’t have the first cracked windshield.
5 years for me, and the only cracked windshield was when my truck got obliterated by hail.
Did you guys just stay home all winter??5 years for me, and the only cracked windshield was when my truck got obliterated by hail.
Ha, no. My job back then had me driving to steamboat a couple times a week and on a shit load of dirt roads. Guess I was just lucky.Did you guys just stay home all winter??
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My old Volvo XC70 never had a crack but my XC60 had plenty. Trying to say not all windshields are created equally perhaps?
Were those two cars differently shaped up front?
A lot of it can be attributed to aerodynamics.
A lot of it can be attributed to aerodynamics.
Absolutely, One was a wagon and the other suv. I think the SUV has a more upright windscreen. However I have had some hard hits to the glass on the XC70 without any damage. Where on the other there were even these small holes I didn't even hear happening. Why I just suspected the glas also being weaker.
Better yet, outside of that one hailstorm, I've NEVER had to replaced a windshield in my 20+ years of driving.Did you guys just stay home all winter??
Here, where I have lived on gravel roads since 1975, I have replaced perhaps two windshields due to cracks. As I recall, it' has been from having a dump truck carrying gravel ahead of me, a piece falls off and bounces off the pavement.
I've bought 3 windshields (for two cars) in 14 years out here. it's ridiculous.
when I got my new vehicle I sat in awe of the clear line of sight. it was the best part of the whole day.
when I got my new vehicle I sat in awe of the clear line of sight. it was the best part of the whole day.
I'm not sure how many windshields we've gone through in almost 20 years. 5 or 6? Just had the one in the Mazda replaced for the second time. Jeep had at least two, Subaru had one I think. *Knock on wood* After almost 5 years the Leaf hasn't developed a crack yet.
Around here you couldn't find an Element with an intact windshield. We had to replace two over the 10 years we had it. Found out that the Canadian version windshield was thinner than the US.
Haha, when I rolled off the lot in Charlotte with my new (to me) MINT truck, I was following Jstuhlman to Wilson Creek. Within five minutes, a gravel truck hit a pothole in the lane next to me, sending a nice little pebble into my flawless windshield.
I have replaced uncracked windshields because they simply get sandblasted and become nothing but glare at night.
