Looks like I screwed up..........windshield

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The other day got a rock "ping" dead center left/ right in the lower third of the GMC windshield. Just a little round crater. I'm sure you guys have heard of the "windshield repair" services, and I fully intended to see about that, and then spaced it out. Tonight just before dark I had a little errand, got back to the truck, and while sitting there for a few minutes it has spread most of the way across, and "handily" curved up towards my line of sight both sides. So it will be "new windshield." I don't drive much I may wait for spring. You know, Idaho--where they use rocks stones and gravel instead of SAND in the winter!!!
 
Yeah, we have not one, but TWO rock quarries within two miles of the house. So highway 49 is literally a hit and miss. Two weeks after I bought Gladys, a rock flung off a dump truck's tire coming the opposite direction and SMACK right in the center down low. The windshield WAS brand new. I just left it that way, because it WILL happen again.
 
They don't use gravel/stone on our roads, they use boulders.
I remember the days when we needed four or more inches of snow before they broke out the plows.
With all the Californians on the roads, they gravel and mag for a heavy frost these days. lol
 
pipeline folks use wooden matts to cross wet spots (and other pipes) then just yank them outta of the ground, stack on a flatbed and take off down the highway. I try not to overtake one of these rocket launchers when it approaches a bridge but there seems to be no way to avoid their wrath. I gave up replacing windscreens on the truck. Not sure they should make it through the annual safety inspection but it always did. I am up to 6 on my 2017 and most of them cracked immediately. Took it in to trade like that this week and they didn't seem concerned either..... ya know my barracuda glass seems to take it better than my new vehicles.
 
like_A_pike said:
pipeline folks use wooden matts to cross wet spots (and other pipes) then just yank them outta of the ground, stack on a flatbed and take off down the highway. I try not to overtake one of these rocket launchers when it approaches a bridge but there seems to be no way to avoid their wrath. I gave up replacing windscreens on the truck. Not sure they should make it through the annual safety inspection but it always did. I am up to 6 on my 2017 and most of them cracked immediately. Took it in to trade like that this week and they didn't seem concerned either..... ya know my barracuda glass seems to take it better than my new vehicles.
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WOW.
 
a cracked windshield here is a fix it ticket if its longer than x inches. With the crater/star crack, the key is pressure to inject the resin into the crack, not just lay it in there.
 
After Dad died in 95, Mom bought the then new 95 Olds which I bought later later on. But when she bought that, I bought the 86 Dodge "600" K car which had pretty low miles. It was in nice shape. I had ridden up to Mom's with someone else, and was driving "my new car" back home for the first time. Caught a rock in the far left of the windshield and immediately expanded to a great big "C" shape about 4" in diameter at the far left top area of the windshield. later on it expanded across the lower third.
 
pishta said:
a cracked windshield here is a fix it ticket if its longer than x inches. With the crater/star crack, the key is pressure to inject the resin into the crack, not just lay it in there.
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When I was doing HVAC service (for the Lennox dealer) the boss was "big" on those repairs. There ways a local guy "Torgy" who did that. We had several of them done on the service trucks and none of them failed. I've no idea what that cost.
 
RustyRatRod said:
Yeah, we have not one, but TWO rock quarries within two miles of the house. So highway 49 is literally a hit and miss. Two weeks after I bought Gladys, a rock flung off a dump truck's tire coming the opposite direction and SMACK right in the center down low. The windshield WAS brand new. I just left it that way, because it WILL happen again.
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Murphy's law. I’m on windshield #4 in my truck. Seems like you just have a new one put in and bam, a rock meets glass and pisses ya off...
Of the the windshields, I lived down a very bumpy road, I would make the crack with a sharpe and see how much the crack would spread and the daily.
 
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