while washing my mini the other, the windshield just decided to crack as i was hosing her down...i just stood in disbelief.....has anybody else had any windshield problems?

 

over a zillion threads on the subject. Me? I'm on windshield number three.... 73,000 miles on the car.

Mini windshields crack, PPG windshields pit. Choose your poison!

Matt

 

What the....

Was your car sitting out in the sun for a long time?

 

it was outside overnight but wasnt sitting all day or anything.....actually got up around 8:30-8:45am to wash her down since i didnt want to be doing it in the extreme heat

 

I was just on my drive home from work last week when I took a small rock to the wind shield just below the wiper (yes between the wiper and the metal surround...the odds). Anyway, I didn't think much of it as these things tend to happen too often.

Well, to my horror, a crack started to run only a minute or so after. The remaining 10 minutes of my drive I watched it grow an additional three inches. It's now over a foot long. I was beside myself but then again, I knew that the MINI glass isn't the strongest of stuff, coupled with the fact the glass sits rather upright. Oh well

 

I was on the way up to a track day last saturday and while on the interstate I heard a rock hit the windscreen, near the bottom and in between the wipers. I didn't think much of it at the time, and thought to myself that it was good that I have the invisible bra to protect the front of the car.

Then when I got into the car after the track event (didn't notice a thing on the track as I wasn't looking at the windscreen ), I notice a little crack about an inch long. Oh well.

FL requires all insurance companies that write policies in this state to cover windscreen replacements, with no deductible - probably so that we can see all the strip malls and overdevelopment much clearer as we drive by them - So I'll get a free replacement, and I'll probably go with MINI glass.

 

Yep..... driving home on the freeway Tuesday.... didn't hear anything hit the windshield, but heard a subtle "poof".... windshield started to crack between the wiper blades.... of course, the temp guage showed an outside temp of 120.... gotta love Phoenix in July....