I've just had a windscreen cracked - the second time in less than six months of owning my Superb. Both times it was a stone chip on a motorway, nothing obvious to be throwing up stones, not near a bridge. Apart from one easily repaired chip, I don't think I've ever had a windscreen crack in upwards of 500,000 miles in various cars.

Is this just bad luck or is there some "feature" that makes the windscreen more vulnerable in the current generation?

Reckon its just bad luck. Only windscreen that went on me was on an old Fiat 131. Old school non laminated one that exploded into little bits. Scared the **** out of me. Saw the big stone come out between lorry wheels in front of me and bang.

It could maybe be the angle of windscreen or perhaps they are being made thinner these days to lighten car that makes them more prone to cracking. Hope as you have had two go you wont have any more for the next 500k at least

Alasdair

Two cracked screens in half a million miles is not bad odds, really. Just so happens that they both occured within six months. "Them's the breaks..."