[Vader2k]

:evil:

I must be the unluckiest person on this forum. A month ago, I had to replace my windshield because of a huge crack. I also had to replace the tinted strip across the top of it. $100 for ins.dec & $35 for new tint strip.

Ok now, a month passes and I am just cruising down the freeway taking my time down the fast lane. Anyways, a few cars up on the middle lane, some Mercury Sable spits out a fat rock which lands right on the passenger side of the windshield. Of course, this leads to a new, lengthy crack... so here I go again. Replace the windshield and pay for a new tint strip.


So a day passes after I replace the windshield & got my new tint strip and I am just crusing down this 2 lane highway, going 60 mph. No cars ahead of me & I am just chillin. Traffic from the other direction seemed heavy but it didn't effect me till this DAMM BIG RIGG shoots a high velocity stone right into the middle of my windshield.

This of course left a quarter-sized chip, right in the middle of my windshield. Immediately after that, I speed into town to have the chip fixed for $35. Luckily, no cracks formed from that rock chip.

Either way, thanks for reading on. I just wanted to vent some frustration.
I had my Accord for 3 years and no broken windshields.... and I drove it for 115,000 miles .....

Also, I had a Prelude, which I drove for 220,000 miles and only got 2 broken windshields, in eight years..... (night owl & rock)....

Now, I am just crossing my fingers, hoping for no more broken windshields. :roll:

 

[Thorn]

That sucks, maybe it's time to get one of those windshields like you see in the Mad Max movies.

 

[Yukonart]

Well, at least they're windshields and not mirrors.

 

[WRX_STi_04]

Wow, I completely feel your pain. I cracked the windshield on my RSX Type-S, when I had it, at about 3k miles. I had it replaced for free under my insurance which was a plus, but it still pissed me off. Keep in mind that I didn't actually replace the windshield until it had about 13k miles on it...soon after I bought a 2004 Mazda RX-8 which I ultimately ended up owning for about 2 weeks...but with about 200 miles on it I got a big chunk taken out of the windshield! I was pissed!! :evil: . But yeah, I took advantage of the whole buy back thing that Mazda offered and they got stuck with the jacked windshield so it's all good. My STi's windshield has survived my driving thus far and I've never had a problem with cracking windshields before, but I was just some sort of rock magnet for a little while I guess. Just thought I'd share, maybe you can feel a little better about yours now.

 

[mistkerl]

haha, man that is some unlucky luck right there.

But look at it this way, what is the statistical chance it could happen again anytime soon?

 

[RadarOnPaws]

I think in his case, pretty good!!