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A YJ and two JKUs... thousands of miles on the interstates, highways, country roads, and offroad... and never one single crack or chip in any of my windshields. Not sure what you guys are doing to see this happen. Hmm...
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A YJ and two JKUs... thousands of miles on the interstates, highways, country roads, and offroad... and never one single crack or chip in any of my windshields. Not sure what you guys are doing to see this happen. Hmm...
Yeah, we are totally doing something to cause rocks to hit our windshields and crack them. Please tell us what that is, so we can stop doing it.
 

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Yeah, we are totally doing something to cause rocks to hit our windshields and crack them. Please tell us what that is, so we can stop doing it.
Driving too f****** close to trucks? I dunno, has to be some reason why I've never seen this happen to Wranglers, and I pull this thread up and it's loaded with cracked windshields. It's not like Wrangler windshields are polarized with magnetic rock-drawing material or something. It's a boxy 4x4 like all the other boxy 4x4s we grew up with.
 

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Driving too f****** close to trucks? I dunno, has to be some reason why I've never seen this happen to Wranglers, and I pull this thread up and it's loaded with cracked windshields. It's not like Wrangler windshields are polarized with magnetic rock-drawing material or something. It's a boxy 4x4 like all the other boxy 4x4s we grew up with.
The windshields are much more vertical than other windshields. Mine caught a rock on the freeway when I wasn't even close behind anyone. In your case, it is better to be lucky than good.
 

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The windshields are much more vertical than other windshields. Mine caught a rock on the freeway when I wasn't even close behind anyone. In your case, it is better to be lucky than good.
WXman is signing himself up to catch about 5 new windshields in the next year now... shouldn't have said anything!!
 

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Yesterday at Easter Jeep show a rep from Corning glass was showing a more durable Wrangler windshield. The outer layer of glass is thicker and much more crack resistant. He had a demo piece that did not crack, it only had a small nick in it. The stock glass with the same impact shattered.
Available from Mopar. No idea on price or whether your insurance company would go for it.. It did have all the jeep logo stuff on it.
 
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Yesterday at Easter Jeep show a rep from Corning glass was showing a more durable Wrangler windshield. The outer layer of glass is thicker and much more crack resistant. He had a demo piece that did not crack, it only had a small nick in it. The stock glass with the same impact shattered.
Available from Mopar. No idea on price or whether your insurance company would go for it.. It did have all the jeep logo stuff on it.
It would definitely be a worthwhile investment for insurance companies to allow for glass that would be more easily repairable than typically having to replace the whole thing!
 

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I'm a member of the JK Cracked Windshield Club. I've gone through 7 windshields with my 2012 Jeep. My next windshield will be on my 2018 JL so I'm looking forward to joining...
Hah! Same here. I replaced windshields on the JKs I owned almost every single year. It practically became routine maintenance. Although, I always felt like the '10 and earlier windshields could take a bigger beating before they fully cracked.
 

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you can get that windshield from the one that is totall loss on this site.it looks intact, weird.you get a rock he gets a crash..but your window gets a crack, his doesnt.
 

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unfortunately I’m in the club now too. Have any of you guys been able to find replacement glass? If so how much was it?
 

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unfortunately I’m in the club now too. Have any of you guys been able to find replacement glass? If so how much was it?
Safelite can get it. You need to call them. Tell them you want the "acoustical glass" windshield for a 2018 Jeep Wrangker JLU. Cost is around $700-800.
 

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Now you all may think I'm crazy, but after reading about so many windshield's cracking AT NEW!!!

My idea is , when I pickup my NEW JLR, I'm going to DETORQUE the four windshield bolts, so the driving/turning/stopping/accelerating won't introduce NEW STRAINS/STRESS'S on the windshield glass--

Because of the new stress of multiple ambient temp. changes and the fact, that these JLs aren't test driven LOOSE and then everything retorqued (like we do for major suspension changes !

It may be wrong, but simple-worth a try !

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