Hi Chaps,

Coming back from Somerset on Tuesday night.

215 trouble free miles miles then in the last half mile a big bang on the windscreen, presumably a stone.

Couldnt see anything obvious but the next day discovered a crack.

See below

Got Autoglass out under the insurance who popped a new one in pretty quickly this morning.

Picture below of how they use a cheese wire crank to break off the old seal.

The new screen has a plastic bracket which takes the mirror fixing this includes the rain sensor and auto lights function.

Seems the rain sensor is optical and looks for droplets on the screen.

All OK now, Looking on the bright side saves me having to clean the windscreen.

Fuzzy

Had similar with the first Yeti, windscreen hit on the drive into work in the morning but no obvious damage. However came back to the car in the afternoon to find there was a long crack running down the screen

Likewise fixed by autoglass.

TP

I am always totaly impressed by the skill of the guys from Autoglass etc. as having tried fitting screens that are bonded in when they first appeared I realise what a bas***d they are! I was weaned on the screens that only needed a bit of waxy string to pull around the sealing rubber and a hearty thump with the fist, so hats off to them. My only defence is that nowadays they have some helpful tools to assist them.

My wife picked up our new yeti from the dealers and five miles on the clock a massive stone hit the screen on the motorway smashed through two layers of the three ply laminate and cracked instantly so within 24 hours of owning a yeti we had to have the windscreen replaced bloody brill

Edited 25 February, 201214 yr by Yetigreenline2

Quite a few of us have now had to have our windscreens replaced. Hopefully the stock levels are better now, as my heated windscreen took over a week to arrive when it went early last year,

The plastic bracket fell off my replacement screen twice in the first week.

The Glass fitter eventually secured it with some sort of super glue.

If it comes loose again He says it will mean another new Windscreen.....

I've had a new screen in Ivor. Excess was about £75 or something, the rest was taken care of by insurance :yes:

I've had a new screen in Ivor. Excess was about £75 or something, the rest was taken care of by insurance :yes:

Yes mine was £60 excess with RAC insurance.

The total cost of the job though was only around £250 as autoglass have agreed discounted prices with the insurance companies.

I wonder what a heated ones costs?

Don't you have to have a switch inside as well as some sort of 'controller box for it???

Ive got a very small crack in mine, 5-6mm. its inside the swept area but not in my line of vision. Even though I am fully comp I wont bother replacing it unless it starts to get bigger!

Ive got a very small crack in mine, 5-6mm. its inside the swept area but not in my line of vision. Even though I am fully comp I wont bother replacing it unless it starts to get bigger!

That's how the screen on mine started off just after Christmas. Didn't realise until it was too late to get the crack repaired and then overnight it almost extended right across the screen.

Autoglass were brilliant though and did the job in under an hour. I got the impression that the very pleasant chap was becoming quite familiar with fitting new screens to Yetis.

Looking at this thread and others on the same subject, I wonder if there are many out there who have not needed a new windscreen.

when you think how many people on here have had screen damage, is it normal or the height and angle of the glass that attracts chips?

Anybody yet on their 2nd screen yet. Maybe its a factory problem not being fitted correctly.

Anybody yet on their 2nd screen yet. Maybe its a factory problem not being fitted correctly.

I know that someone is but don't ask me to find the thread. I don't think it's anything to do with the fitting more the height/design/angle of the windscreen. I recall a motor cycle throwing up a stone but didn't spot the resultant crack until the next day. But I was very surprised at how the tiny crack then spread.

There again we had a Fabia a few years back that had three replacements over the course of four years.

Don't forget that the front screen is a stressed part of the body structure. It helps keep everything straight. The Yeti's body does tend to flex rather a lot (hence all the issues over the creaky door rubbers) so once a small crack appears, it is inevitable that it will spread as the screen has been weakened. That's life, though I do wonder if the screen is somewhat thinner than normal and is more susceptible to breakage. There do seem to be a rather higher incidence of broken screens being reported than I would have expected for a vehicle with relatively low production numbers.

Thinking about it, has anyone else noticed how prominent is the sound of other vehicles through the screen area - far louder than through the side windows (when shut of course!)? It seems particularly noticeable when driving at 40 - 60mph on a smooth wet road. At first I thought that there must be an opening somewhere, but It seems to come through the glass itself. (Diesel owners may not be aware of this!)

Various premium manufacturers extoll the virtue of their "thicker windscreen glass to reduce noise ingress" (Merc) and "noise deadening windscreen glass" (Jaguar). Maybe Skoda have gone the other way in pursuit of reducing weight but have made their glass too thin.

i had an suv before i got my octavia and on the owners forum for that they were always moaning about picking up chips stones , im convinced its to do with the screen being far more steep in its rake and any debris will do more damage as its less likely to glance off ,

Wasn't there a plastic coating that could be put on windscreens that helped lesson impact of stone chips?

there is a material that can be applied to the cabin glass of any vehicle its called an anti spalling film but this is usually to prevent and glass debris from entering the vehicle once the "object" has broken /damaged /attempted to penetrate the glass and is usually on the inside of the glass , in the states loads of the yeti type of vehicle are fitted with whats called a bug deflector its a canny idea in as much as it actually alters the trajectory of anything that may be flung up/ or toward the front of the vehicle hence the name "deflector"

there is a material that can be applied to the cabin glass of any vehicle its called an anti spalling film but this is usually to prevent and glass debris from entering the vehicle once the "object" has broken /damaged /attempted to penetrate the glass and is usually on the inside of the glass , in the states loads of the yeti type of vehicle are fitted with whats called a bug deflector its a canny idea in as much as it actually alters the trajectory of anything that may be flung up/ or toward the front of the vehicle hence the name "deflector"

Well you won't see one on my yeti. IMHO it's ugly.

As far as windscreen chips and small cracks go, get them fixed!

Autoglass do a repair which is virtually invisible and makes the screen as strong as it was before the chip so it ain't going to crack further. As it says on the advert, most insurance companies cover the cost so it won't cost you anything either.

+1

My screen was chipped in the first week of ownership. Autoglass repaired it nex day. Almost invisible, I know it's there but any one else would have to search for it. The repair is gauranteed for the duration of my ownership so even if it lets go I'm covered.

Fred

Just had my Roomster screen replaced at 5,555 miles. Stone bounced off it at 70mph. The only strange thing was after the replacement the bulb out warning light came on and the reversing lights stopped working.

All bulbs were OK and the Skoda repair report said the CAN bus needed some sort of reset (loose connection?). Not sure how the windscreen fitter could have knocked a CAN bus connector?