Since getting my octy my screens chipped three times. In my previous cars I've had one screen in about 7 years. The bloke I sit next to is about to get his third screen for his Audi A4. Are we just unlucky or is it something about modern screens/cars aerodynamics that make them weaker/more susceptiable to damage?

prolly due to the state of the roads too, which are falling apart

prolly due to the state of the roads too, which are falling apart

I think you hit the nail on the head

Does a chipped screen make the car faster! Opps sorry :(

My screen chipped and cracked within less than four months of ownership. The new screen then suffered a severe chip just two months later, which fortunately was repaired, but was touch and go. In forty four years of motoring this has been my only replacement screen, and the only repair needed. I think that the screens are under more tension, and they are certainly thinner.

Yep, I got another chip only a couple of weeks after getting a new screen that was covered in small chips then cracked.

This stupid lark of throwing stones on some sprayed on tar and then letting the cars run it down rather than rolling a proper surface isn't helping. That plus a lot of cars don't have mud guards these days.

I have just go my first proper chip in a screen for about 250,000 miles!! And I was chatting to a friend last week who had just picked one up in his Land Rover, his first for many many years too.

Yep, I got another chip only a couple of weeks after getting a new screen that was covered in small chips then cracked.

This stupid lark of throwing stones on some sprayed on tar and then letting the cars run it down rather than rolling a proper surface isn't helping. That plus a lot of cars don't have mud guards these days.

it should be law that every car has mud guards i hate following someone in the rain and picking up a car full of mud and crappy water makes my car filthy :thumbdwn:

At work, we have a fleet of just over 10 vehicles. So far this year we've had 11 screens replaced. That's not including replacing the screen on my van 3 times in a row because autoglass are useless and couldn't even fit it in straight or without cracking it!

Mine's so covered in little tiny chips that I sometimes wonder if it's worth cleaning the screen. I end up spending 10 minutes with a fingernail answering that eternal question, "Is that a bug I missed, or another stonechip?"

Eerrrrr ........Don't drive too close to the car in front.

Why bother getting the screen changed when you get a stone chip or a crack. Unless the cars due for an MOT just drive it. The screens not going to fall in or anything.

Eerrrrr ........Don't drive too close to the car in front.

That doesn't help in the following situations:

• Resurfaced road and cars coming the other way at over 10mph. (I think the council should be liable for this as it's entirely predictable on an NSL road)
  
• Some tit goes over the hatchings spraying you with stones.
  
• The road is falling apart and you get overtaken.
  
• The motorway is falling apart and you get somebody go past you, especially when done at speed.
  

Why bother getting the screen changed when you get a stone chip or a crack. Unless the cars due for an MOT just drive it. The screens not going to fall in or anything.

Because it knackers the wipers and makes visibility bad when it's in your direct line of sight?

That doesn't help in the following situations:

• Resurfaced road and cars coming the other way at over 10mph. (I think the council should be liable for this as it's entirely predictable on an NSL road)
  
• Some tit goes over the hatchings spraying you with stones.
  
• The road is falling apart and you get overtaken.
  
• The motorway is falling apart and you get somebody go past you, especially when done at speed.
  

they leaving the stones down too long these days. on the motorways they use different surface, why not use it on normal roads too?

The hatchings are never done over with a roadsweeper and as cars rarely go on it the stones that flick up on to it are just an accident waiting to happen.

It's all about saving money, a council employee was heard to say.

Highways departments fo county councils are now too busy fending off, paying up for and insuring against personal liability claims across the road and pavement netwrok, that the money can't be put into capital improvement schemes.

Also, Trunk roads (eg A27, A23) and Motorways are the responsibility of the Highways Agency, a Government Agency who they give money to, as opposed to local councils who oppose them and they strip money from (except of course commie, sorry labour heartland areas up north)

Rant over, you should try riding a road bike with carbon rims, avoiding potholes and cars when you avoid the potholes.. :(

Why bother getting the screen changed when you get a stone chip or a crack. Unless the cars due for an MOT just drive it. The screens not going to fall in or anything.

Thats my theory, get it booked in for a new screen the day before its MOT and your good for another year

I have had 2 windscreens fitted to my Octavia and 1 fitted to my wifes Fabia all with cracks starting on the drivers side bottom corner ! I blame all these road humps etc. Most insurances will repair chips free of charge before they develop into cracks.

I had a pigeon fly into my windscreen on the way back from Bracknell the other week. Frit both me and my boss who was sat in the passenger seat half to death!! :eek:

Feckin rat on wings scratched my screen right in the line of sight as well! So I may have to go for my 3rd screen since taking delivery of my vRS last August :(

Dont you just love paying out £60 each time and then to find it DOES effect your insurance premium (even tho they say it doesn't) .:thumbdwn:

You should be happy not to live here. Round here, come autumn they spread some poorly fixed gravel that supposedly improves grip on black ice. Round spring, this is usually loose enough to be thrown all over the place.

That's it, next spring I'm opening an auto glass shop.

Eerrrrr ........Don't drive too close to the car in front.

All my chips on the works Mondy are from the opposite carriageway! :confused::eek:

You should be happy not to live here. Round here, come autumn they spread some poorly fixed gravel that supposedly improves grip on black ice. Round spring, this is usually loose enough to be thrown all over the place.

That's it, next spring I'm opening an auto glass shop.

In the UK that would be called resurfacing.

It's only funny because it's true. I really wish it wasn't :(

Yep, I got another chip only a couple of weeks after getting a new screen that was covered in small chips then cracked.

This stupid lark of throwing stones on some sprayed on tar and then letting the cars run it down rather than rolling a proper surface isn't helping. That plus a lot of cars don't have mud guards these days.

That's how they make roads here!!

And there's gravel roads as well - even some sections of the less used state highways

In the UK that would be called resurfacing.

It's only funny because it's true. I really wish it wasn't :(

I never had a clue we weren't the only ones with this trouble. I really wish they could come up with something better because this gravel is very noisy, I have to turn the stereo up at least 5 increments to adjust for it, and is very unstable under hard braking. I've more than once seen a truck brake straight into the ditch on the side of the road because of this.

And yes, it's not that funny, but seeing my dad's 1 week old car have a chipped screen right in the driver's eyeline I'd rather laugh than drive myself crazy over it.

Round here, come autumn they spread some poorly fixed gravel that supposedly improves grip on black ice.

We have the same in Finland, coarse grit is spread on some roads and footpaths during winter, then they come and sweep it up again after thaw.