Cracked Windshield Club

[NavyVet1959]

I'm starting to think that the reason that they left the fold down front windshield is so that people can save their windshield from being broken by gravel and other small road debris.

I have to wonder though... If a vehicle is that prone to windshield cracks, maybe their is a design issue that needs to be addressed?

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[wanderer]

does anyone have any idea if a windshiild banner , that goes across the top few inches would help to reduce the paossibility of cracking I am pretty sure what ever hit mine was in the top inch or so and the the winchiled cracked down wards form there> There is no chip in the glass just a crack. And on a similar note would wone of those hood deflection thingys force some of the rocks up and over the top instead of into the windshield?

 

[NavyVet1959]

Last rock crack I had on a car was from a rock kicked up by a car in another lane as it was passing me. It came at an angle where it would not have been affected by a deflection device on the front of the hood. I tend to stay far enough back that I don't have to react abruptly if the driver in front of me slows down, but I still get rocks sometimes.

 

[Daytona125]

2 weeks 2,000 km's. Got the dash cam video, small tink and 2 cracks all the way down the windshield!!!! $590 can dollars. CRAP!!!

 

[ManLovesRobot]

Safelite just came out to replace my windshield. They brought the glass with part ending in 14 instead of 15. 14 has some antenna built in at the top and was $486.25. The 15 part is what I needed and now they are saying that is $617. Grrrrrrr. Glad I got the $0 glass deductible going forward.

 

[Hootbro]

Add me to the club. Will post pictures tomorrow but I had a golf ball size chunk of something hit just below the drivers wiper blade while I was driving about 70 MPH down the interstate going home. Hit so hard from the outside that it cause a good size explosion of small glass debris to hit me on the inside and was all over my dash, me and the steering column.

Stopped at the local glass shop and scheduled an appointment tomorrow for replacement at $448 installed. Numerous times I had to explain to the dizzy chick at the glass shop desk to make sure she ordered the correct glass for the JL and not JK. She insisted that the JL was the same as the JK and the JK was the "upgrade model". Finally had a tech come out and to show him and he finally set her straight.

 

[IndustrialAction]

That sucks!

 

[OH Bandit]

Joining the club. Eight weeks and 2,400 miles in.

 

[CyBourg]

I got my first one driving through a haboob. Pretty wild. Rocks were flying.

 

[WastedPenguin]

2 days after I got my jeep, a rock, from the other lane, flew up and put a big chip in my windshield. LUCKILY it didn't crack. Safelite came out and fixed and it is barely noticeable. Since I've had several rocks hit the windshield, but no cracks or chips. I'm definitely calling my insurer and getting $0 deductible for glass...

 

[JeepJL18]

You can buy the 'Gorilla Glass' windshield from Mopar I believe. I haven't priced it, but since mopar is selling it, it would be a high price before I even look"

 

[psw757]

Is the mopar gorilla glass the acoustic glass that comes on the JL?

 

[JeepJL18]

Is the mopar gorilla glass the acoustic glass that comes on the JL?

I am not sure if it comes standard, mine didn't...but perhaps that could be on the order form.

 

[WXman]

I'm thinking about starting a thread for folks who haven't ever had a cracked windshield.

4th Wrangler here, tens of thousands of miles, 25 MPH county roads to 70 MPH interstates, offroad use, below zero in winter, above 100 in summer...and I have never once had a windshield on a Wrangler crack on me. And there's a rock quarry 2 miles from my house so there are 80,000 lb. rock trucks on the roads around here constantly.

 

[bmzero]

Mine broke at 972 miles.

$644 to replace.

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