Try to beat this...
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Try to beat this...
8 windshields in 5 1/2 years on accross 4 cars. Damn, my average is 2 per car and almost 1 1/2 per year. The 8th happened just last night and it is already a 20in crack.
I am not sure what sort bad luck lures little stones onto my windshield(s)...
If anybody got me beat, that will be the first time I welcome the sound of defeat.
I am not sure what sort bad luck lures little stones onto my windshield(s)...
If anybody got me beat, that will be the first time I welcome the sound of defeat.
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4 years 7 cars... 0 windshields, 1 rock chip that was fixed for free.. Unless you count the windshield on my GTI that was completely Shattered, but I technically didn't own the car after that....
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1 new windshield for each of the 3 cars I've owned in the last 10 years. All of them getting cracked within the first year of ownership. I have yet to fix the one on the Subaru. I'm waiting until all of the rain stops.
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I think I have you beat. I have owned 7 cars in the last 5 years. Here is my windshield score: STi (0), Xterra (1), Lightning (1), Jeep (3), 4Runner (1), Civic (1), Mustang (2). My theory is that it has nothing to do with luck. The fact that I drive a ton (25-30K per year), combined with flat windshields being exposed to a lot of construction and shoddily repaved roads = happy glass company, unhappy insurance company. My repairs have gotten fewer since I started moving over a lane or 2 when I'm near a big rig and passing them quickly. I've definitely gotten a little paranoid. I think my cars are magnetized or something... The second windshield in my Jeep only lasted 5 days. My wife gets nervous when I drive her Explorer and gets annoyed when I find another rock. My insurance company hates me LOL.
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Originally Posted by iceman302
My repairs have gotten fewer since I started moving over a lane or 2 when I'm near a big rig and passing them quickly. I've definitely gotten a little paranoid. I think my cars are magnetized or something... The second windshield in my Jeep only lasted 5 days. My wife gets nervous when I drive her Explorer and gets annoyed when I find another rock. My insurance company hates me LOL.
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in the last 2 years my sti has had 3 new windsheilds(maybe going on 4th,it has chips in it right now),wifes 4runner got a new one,and now the camry also w/ my inlaws, there's 3 windsheilds in the last year
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Originally Posted by kidatari
Try driving to work on the same road that goes to the gravel quarry
i hate that road for rocks!
there is always construction trucks rolling up and down it.