Haven't heard much about cracked windshield lately
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I was sitting at a light and I saw and heard it happen in front of my eyes. No impact marks so I'm sure BMW will replace it, but this will be my second one.
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I've got one about 1.5cm on the passenger side of the windshield, but you can clearly see a crater about 0.7cm in diameter in the center of the crack indicating it was hit by a small rock.
I hope BMW can replace this under warranty.
I hope BMW can replace this under warranty.
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Originally Posted by Centurion' date='Sep 16 2005, 06:15 PM
I've got one about 1.5cm on the passenger side of the windshield, but you can clearly see a crater about 0.7cm in diameter in the center of the crack indicating it was hit by a small rock.
I hope BMW can replace this under warranty.
I hope BMW can replace this under warranty.
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Originally Posted by donv' date='Sep 16 2005, 10:54 PM
[quote name='Centurion' date='Sep 16 2005, 06:15 PM']I've got one about 1.5cm on the passenger side of the windshield, but you can clearly see a crater about 0.7cm in diameter in the center of the crack indicating it was hit by a small rock.
I hope BMW can replace this under warranty.
I hope BMW can replace this under warranty.
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[/quote]Funny you should say "truck" because that's exactly what happened. I saw the damn thing coming too! It was that big! My heart rate shot up immediately within the 0.5 seconds it took from the time I spotted it and the time it hit my windshield...a nice loud crack too.
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i'm not about your guys states .. but in florida as long as you have Comprehensive Ins on yrou car, your car insurance will replace 1 windshield FREE for you per year. they figure replacing a $300 windshield is cheaper than replacing the whole car due to an accident because you couldn't see properly.
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Originally Posted by wiszmaster' date='Sep 17 2005, 11:28 AM
i'm not about your guys states .. but in florida as long as you have Comprehensive Ins on yrou car, your car insurance will replace 1 windshield FREE for you per year. they figure replacing a $300 windshield is cheaper than replacing the whole car due to an accident because you couldn't see properly.
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Let me restate my original post. I was sitting at a light, nothing hit my windshield. Its another stress crack. They already replaced one windshield under warranty. Is this going to continue to happen?
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Originally Posted by pennetta' date='Sep 18 2005, 07:44 AM
Let me restate my original post. I was sitting at a light, nothing hit my windshield. Its another stress crack. They already replaced one windshield under warranty. Is this going to continue to happen?
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This is a strange thing to happen and twice for that matter!
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Did the crack occur in the same general area as the first one? Hmmm...
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exactly.
I just noticed a big "L" shaped crack on my passenger side front windshield. This is a first for me. It looks like a stress crack. Last week, my car was in the BMW service to replace the sun roof motor. I don't know, if the sun roof motor replacement caused the stress crack.


