Hey everyone, I was just thinking about something that may be some of the reason most of us are getting stress cracks in our windshields. I was wondering if this could be caused by body "roll." I just wanted to see if the people out there that have the strut bars on their pros are having this as common as the people without them are. I don't know if this is a feasible theory or not I just am pissed I've went through 2 windshields in under a year. I don't have the strut bars, and I would like to hear from everyone else, cracks or no cracks. Thanks

 

I really don't thin body roll has any thing to do with it. I work in a body shop and we have vehicles that have Frame damage all the time and windows/windsheilds aren'y broken. Of course there are times when they are broken, but mainly not due to frame damage.
My dad's wrecked his T-bird a year ago (we're finally getting around to repairing it) and the whole rear clip needs to be replaced, but the rear windsheild was intact.

 

Our windshields crack because they are crappy pieces of ****.

I'm so fed up with mine already - 38,000 miles and I can barely drive into the sun - it's WAAAY too "speckled" for that mileage.

Luckily, I have not had any cracks, other than two nice stone chips that have not spread at all. But the windshield is probably my biggest complaint among the few I have about the car - it's junk. Glass replacement should not be routine maintenance - but it seems that the OEM glass is made to be replaced.

~HH

 

Once on Car Talk, they said that Japanese glass chips easier than U.S.-made glass.

I have a P5 with the tower strut, and I have had to replace my windshield. The crack was below the passenger side wiper. There was just the tiniest chip imaginable.

I have heard of glass cracking due to the car flexing, but I think our cars are pretty stiff. I subscribe to the "crappy glass" theory.

 

I agree about the cheapness of our glass.
About a week after I got my P5, A pebble hit my windshield and left a tiny pock-mark. I figured that an auto glass shop would be able to fix it with epoxy, so I drove to the nearest one.
By the time I slowly drove 5 miles to the shop, the pock-mark had turned into a spider crack, and the spider crack into a full-on broken windshield!
Well, at least I dont have that crappy glass on there anymore.

 

I TOOK MY PROTEGE TO MAZDA AND DEMANDED THEY REPLACE MY WINDSHIELD! I have 9400 miles in 6 months of having the car, and i had a ball point pin tip sized indention on the passenger side windshield and the whole dman thing cracked as soon as I turned on the defroster. I told mazda to fix the windsheild or keep the car and give me a check for the 17,900 i paid for the car, IN CASH. THEY REPLACED MY WINDSHEILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I have a strut bar and I just got mines repaired 2 weeks ago.

 

my crack isn't from body roll, its from a good size rocking hitting it, the cracks go from one side of the car to the other

 

Ya know,

I purchased my P5 in september, i now have a nifty crack that follows exactly down the defroster on the dash, then it goes down on each side, its now going up on both sides.

I dont mind replacin the window, however.....If it happens again im going to be upset.
Windows are like 500 bucks!

 

you can get a aftermarket windshield installed for 200 bucks