Cracked windshield ...

I've had my 2015 for 2 years now (bought it new) and for the 2nd time - while on the Interstate - something flew up and hit my windshield

First time it happened, it just took a chip out

This time, it was in the upper drivers side corner. I heard the hit and thought - DANG, something just hit the windshield. About 2 miles down the road, a crack started from the hit spot and travelled about 3" down from the corner. By the end of the day, that crack is now about 12" long.

I travel the Interstate to get to my job everyday.

I got my license in 1974 when I turned 16, and this is the first and second time I've had chipped / cracked windshields ...

My Sister in law has a Tundra, and she has replaced hers 5 times !!!

Anyone else had this problem ?

 

Stuff hitting glass at speed can

1) bounce off
2) create a baby chip
3) create a big chip
4) create a chip in a stress point that fractures and spreads with time and motion

Your problem is being unlucky.

 

The problem is bad luck and unsecured loads. Your description of the crack is typical of the way windshields crack. Get it replaced and be thankful that whatever hit it didn't come through and hit you.

 

My first chip happened seconds after my odometer rolled to 15,000. I'm at 42,000 and have a crack that goes from side to side on the bottom, a crack coming from the top passenger side down behind my mirror and into the right center of my view. I also have about 6 other chips on my windshield. Pretty much have all been from trucks with untarped loads. I have a dash cam now, hopefully I'll be able to get a plate number and call the "how is my driving" number.

 

In New Mexico, windshields are considered wear items. I change them more often than brake pads.

 

I was actually just south of Santa Fe when my first chip happened. I had just gotten onto I-25 from the La Cienega exit.

 

My first cracked happen at mile 413. 18 wheeler threw a rock as I was attempting to pass. Got a free replacement through insurance. 0 dollar deductible!!!!

 

Changing the windshield is the best way to get clean glass up front.

I'm on my 3rd or 4th windshield for the current truck. Have replace them in several previous trucks before. Shit happens.

 

Back when I bought my first truck ( 2003 frontier) a rock hit my windshield on the drive home from the dealership. I was so pissed/stressed/frustrated cause the truck only had 6 miles on it. WTF. I couldn't sleep that night cause I was so pissed.

Needless to say I've changed a few things when I'm driving on the highway. I never drive behind construction trucks ( always have so,e other vehicle in between us, or I stay far far behind it- about 7 or 8 car lengths) if I drive behind a full sized or mid sized truck/SUV I always look for their mud flaps on the rear tires, if they don't have any I change lanes. I'm not really concerned with passenger cars since theyre so low and I have an OEM bug deflector. Yes I'm that anal about the whole windshield thing cause I was so stressed back then with what happened with my Frontier

 

Cracked windshields happen to us all, it's not a rare event...

 

Or when you don't feel like cleaning the dead love bugs off the windshield so you crack it yourself and get the insurance involved

 

Or not.

Windshield is under my deductible anyways.

 

replaced mine last year first time

its called luck

 

0 dollar deductible on glass for me.

 

I got my first chip in my windshield 1 month after buying the truck. It's been there for the last 3 years.

 

The rake of the windshield also may have something to do with it- 22 years driving a miata every day and even got sprayed by a gravel truck in the winter(destroyed the paint) windshield pitted never cracked. Wifes F-150 and my Tacoma this year both need new windshields. Anyone in the trade know if one glass is better than another- seems like $150 to $250 I can get each of these replaced.

 

Must be the angle of Tacoma windshields. I've had more things hit my windshield than any other vehicle I've owned.

 

Man. Sounds like you have tons of luck. I've been driving since the mid 80s and have replaced windshields at least 10 times, maybe more. I figure if I get 5 years out of one it's lasted longer than it should.

 

I can do that even better. I'm 62 and have been driving since I was about 15 years old or 47 years. I hve never had a windshield replaced from road debris.

Once a baseball from my son and the second from a rock thrown by a human while parked. Those are good odds. Now today on the way home I'll probably get a big rock... Damn it.

 

I got a crack in my windshield from the time I hit a crow in the ass at 60mph. I thought he would grab some elevation but he didn't...