For the second time in a few months I've done a big clean on one of my cars and then taken it for a little spin and acquired a massive chip in the screen! It was the vRS's turn this time - Damn!

 

Are stones like Birdsh*ite and only attracted to clean cars?

Damn! Mine is chipped too and it’s a heated screen! I’ve just had the chip filled, I can barely see it now. Hope you can get a good repair done

I feel your pain OP. 2 months into ownership a dumper lorry battered my front end with some large stones. Cracked the Windscreen resulting in a £75 excess for replacement and still have a few deep gouges on the bodywork from it!

I acquired a chip in mine last month, a couple of days after we had snow in Northampton.  It was the residual grit spread on the roads that was the cause.  Tried the filling route, but was told the chip was too big to fill, so had to have a new screen.  The fitter who put it in, managed to scratch it as well as struggling to recalibrate the lane guidance camera, so had to have another one fitted at Autoglass premises in Bedford. 

 

Fortunately, they made a good job of it this time and even fitted a genuine Skoda heated screen to make up for the inconvenience.  I watched the performance recalibrating the camera.  Talk about b*llache!!  I can see why they charge over £250 for the recalibration.   Good job the insurance covered that too!

I got lucky with my chipped screen, Autoglass via my insurance company done a fill, which cracked the very next day.

 

However, that was a repair failure & therefore, the screen replacement was done at Autoglass's expense so, other than waiting for the camera calibration which was a PITA it cost me £10 excess to the insurance company.

Would be nice if car bodies and glass were made out of materials more able to withstand those insults, like the bulletproof BMW in the movie London Has Fallen...

Picked up my brand new Polo in March 2015 and picked up a stone chip in the windscreen driving it home from the dealer! It was all downhill from there. Airbag failure, flywheel failure, loose brakes calipers, continual lighting issues, squeaks rattles and a general piece of junk. VT’d the damn thing at the earliest opportunity. 

got the same here, some prat in a TT driving onto the verge kicking up a huge conker sized  stone which hit the screen so hard i though for sure it was cracked at best. Two decent 2mm deep gouges...

 

How long does the repair process take?

Diving for 23 years and it is only in my Octavia that I have had windscreen damage, stone cracks it last year so needed full replacement and a few days ago a small stone hit the centre and put a nice chip in the screen. Seems to be the smaller stones that do the most damage. Had plenty of stones hit my windscreens in previous cars but it makes me think the octavia windscreen is vulnerable to stone impact.

 

 

9 hours ago, POWYSWALES said:

Diving for 23 years and it is only in my Octavia that I have had windscreen damage, stone cracks it last year so needed full replacement and a few days ago a small stone hit the centre and put a nice chip in the screen. Seems to be the smaller stones that do the most damage. Had plenty of stones hit my windscreens in previous cars but it makes me think the octavia windscreen is vulnerable to stone impact.

 

 

I think you've just had bad luck? i've had smaller stones crack my window in the VW, and one the went clean through the lamination on an older VW transporter. I was surprised the Octavia screen wasn't crazy paved, actually it held up well.

Edited 16 January, 20188 yr by JohnnyType2