Tire through windshield

[beachbumm78]

(Let me preface this is not my Jeep but someone that is on a page I follow)...

The caption explains what happened...but with the way the JL glass cracks at the slightest provocation I can’t even imagine how it would hold up if this happened to it

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[spurly]

As soon as I saw the picture I started singing Safelites jingle.


Safelite repair, satelite replace.

 

[beachbumm78]

As soon as I saw the picture I started singing Safelites jingle.


Safelite repair, satelite replace.

I bet Safelite is making bank off all the JLs with windshield replacement.

 

[KeithM]

Advantage of having a short windshield, the frame stopped the tire.

I knew someone who had this happen to their wife in her suburban, the wheel blew through the interior and out the back - luckily she was alone and it wen through the passenger side.

 

[brazos]

Man, I hate when that happens.
Bugs are bad, rocks even worse.
But that occasional wheel coming through the windshield just chaps my ass.

 

[BillG]

Ummmm.... it’s called a windshield, not a tire shield.

 

[TimmH]

Safelite can fix cracks, I saw it on the TV.

 

[melendez69]

That's wheely unfortunate.

 

[Roky]

That's wheely unfortunate.

.......

 

[melendez69]

.......

 

[JeepDave]

But in a JL you can fold that baby down in 3 minutes and get on your way again...

 

[jlewissystem]

How do you know it was a tire and not just a typical JL rock chip!

 

[Buckleup]

I better check the torque on my spacers

 

[liquids]

Last year I was driving down a city freeway on a sunday morning and noticed in the distance what looked like a tire bouncing 15-20 feet high in my (left) lane coming toward me. No one else swerved, but after two more bounces it was coming down right at me. I jerked the wheel to the left where there was no shoulder, just the median barrier. I probably missed that barrier by six inches.
I never saw the tire hit again behind me, nor did I see anyone else swerve, nor any disabled car in the oncoming traffic lanes. I swear I saw that tire, but all the other visual evidence suggests that I imagined the whole thing. I still don't know...

 

[PadreFreddie]

They'll buff that out!

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