Chipped screens, more common now?

[ThePiper]

Three weeks after receiving my new Octy: one stone chip repaired.

One month after that I had to get a new windscreen due to a stone hitting it and chipping the inside (:eek:), and a couple of weeks after that another repaired stone chip :(.

The guy that fixed these says that car manufacturers are making the glass thinner (saves weight = lower fuel consumption = less CO2).

Not sure how true it is, but sounds plausible.

Btw: this in Belgium...

[jlwah]

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.

The councils are also cutting road maintenance budgets. Our's was cut by £1M this year and combine that with the increase in claims and it's not difficult to work out that there is going to be less and less maintenance work carried out and the work done will be the cheapest possible

Despite ever increasing motoring tax's the quality of the road surfaces gets poorer and more dangerous by the day.