Cracked Windshield
08-31-2006 | 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Tomas
Originally Posted by implayaz9
does this happen to every xb's glass or some only?..
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08-31-2006 | 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by SFloridaMike
I just had my windsheild replaced today. I got hit by a rock on the I-75 in Florida heading to work. Luckily for me, Florida law is set up so that my insurance replaced the windsheild without charging a deductable or increasing my premium.
ppfft....mine probably got hit on I-75 too, but I am in atlanta....I guess there are some states that actually require insurance companies to replace the windshield for free, but from what I have heard that is only for cracks in your line of sight...
08-31-2006 | 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by RedneckwithanxB
Originally Posted by Tomas
Originally Posted by implayaz9
does this happen to every xb's glass or some only?..
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08-31-2006 | 07:44 AM
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I did say 'for the most part,' Redneck. 
This is my xB's fourth windshield, but only one was replaced because of damage while driving.
(Long story short: First was the OEM windshield, second was from four chunks of concrete thrown over an eight foot tall cyclone fence onto my less-than-500-mile xB in its carport, the third was when I refused to accept #2 because of defective glass and poor installation, #3 was the one with the 210 MPH rock fired through it, and #4 is alive and well, heading for Montana in a week...)
Hopefully #4 will survive the trip across two mountain ranges, etc.
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This is my xB's fourth windshield, but only one was replaced because of damage while driving.
(Long story short: First was the OEM windshield, second was from four chunks of concrete thrown over an eight foot tall cyclone fence onto my less-than-500-mile xB in its carport, the third was when I refused to accept #2 because of defective glass and poor installation, #3 was the one with the 210 MPH rock fired through it, and #4 is alive and well, heading for Montana in a week...)
Hopefully #4 will survive the trip across two mountain ranges, etc.
Tomas
is my car even safe in the garage
08-31-2006 | 08:37 AM
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I dunno about xBs, but Jeff Jeep's hatch window blew up in my garage... 
Jeff was about a week old and no one was in the garage with him - he'd been parked about two hours. We heard the report from the livingroom... Whap!
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Jeff was about a week old and no one was in the garage with him - he'd been parked about two hours. We heard the report from the livingroom... Whap!Tomas
08-31-2006 | 07:46 PM
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getting a new shield tomorrow has a bullseye and a stone chip well the stone chip split today about 10" worth plus 2 smaller splinters. got the at home treatment safelife or some such is gonna do it. man i'm glad i live in florida causee this isn't going to cost me anything
10-01-2006 | 07:37 PM
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gone through 2
so my scion xB is on its 3rd windshield... the first on was definately a stress fracture right across the drivers side.. eventhough the dealer tried to tell me that the star crack that was over 6 inches away from the fracture caused it... but they replaced it with only a little bit arguing... then the morning after i got the first one replaced i got out to my car and there was another...straight up from the bottom... i drove 20 mi home nothing hit my windshield... i took it to the dealer... and now 2 weeks later i got it fixed at the dealers expense of course... this time the dealer told me that they found a chip underneath the drip panel between the hood and the windshield... how I got a chip under there is bologna... cuz im not sure it humanly possible to do it on accident... the dealers to the point where when i walk in everyone knows who i am and why im there... i think the design on this car is whack... love the space and style... but not much else...
10-01-2006 | 07:44 PM
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My xA is on my 2nd with a few small chips in it. The first one got a pretty big rock close to the bottom and it was in the summer, so it was spreading fast, even when I put my windows down. I gotta get the chips on my current one filled before anything else happens. Cuz I really don't want a 3rd windsheild.
10-01-2006 | 08:25 PM
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It depends on how and where things hit too. I'm on my original windshield and it'll be 3years in Dec, and almost 70K in it, 75 a day on Bay Area freeways. I've got at least 5 good chips/cracks and they don't run or grow at all. One happened the first month I had it, one is a big star. I wish they would grow so I could get my ins to replace it. It is so pitted from smaller stuff it looks like it has been sandblasted...
10-02-2006 | 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by TheScionicMan
It depends on how and where things hit too. I'm on my original windshield and it'll be 3years in Dec, and almost 70K in it, 75 a day on Bay Area freeways. I've got at least 5 good chips/cracks and they don't run or grow at all. One happened the first month I had it, one is a big star. I wish they would grow so I could get my ins to replace it. It is so pitted from smaller stuff it looks like it has been sandblasted...
It just needs a little help. 
10-02-2006 | 05:38 AM
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mine got cracked by the lawn company at work, but I didn't even think about that or the 40 dents/chips in the paint all down one side of my car till a week ago, and its been nearly 6 months, I haven't replaced my windsheild, I'm going to cheat, order the glass, and have the guy at work install it for free