Is it the glass... or the windshield angle?

[sonofhammer]

Stop driving so close to other cars.

This. Nearing 30k with zero windshield dings.

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[BattBronco35]

Stop driving so close to other cars.

2 chips have come on a Santa Ana wind day, no car even in front of me for a few hundred feet in any of the 5 lanes. Santa Ana winds blow all the Little Rock’s and crap around here bad. Especially when going out to the IE or traveling on one of the beautiful freeways under construction.

My other one was from a semi truck 2 lanes over from me. Again, no car in the lane in front of me

 

[Snacktime]

Bronco is currently crack free, jeep has a 1" spider crack rock chip. Mostly angle from my experience, you hear the rocks hit the F150 all the time and in 10 years its on its second window.

From my personal experience the off brand windshield last longer. Every time I splurge on factory glass to get that logo in the center the window lasts less than 6 months.

 

[Desmolicious]

Stop following other Broncos running the stock Goodyears. Those things toss rocks like they are allergic to them.

 

[rayhil67]

I will enter into this debate, My22 has 64K and im on 3rd windshield they all have had a couple of similarities' 1 all in Winter months 2 started as chip (that I did repair but still cracked) 3 everytime they would always crack horizontally all but straight line all the way across center. my guess is the glass, Ive had a jeep for a solid 15 years (cj and jk) only replace 2 , and I always had luck repairing chips (one windshield I think I had 5 chips on it and never cracked)

 

[Quatermain]

Definitely not the angle, I drove an aerodynamic brick (old style Defender) for many years with zero cracks or chips. My Bronco has 15K on it and no cracks or chips driven in rural Idaho. I just sold my 2004 F250 with 180K no cracks or chips on the original glass. I think driving style, road choices and a bit of bad luck might account for a lot of the problems. Glass quality is an interesting possibility.

 

[tock13]

In my area it doesn’t matter type of glass or windshield angle. Dump trucks, logging trucks and heavy equipment haulers all hit the highways and interstate with rocks and crap from the job site and don’t give one f they are dumping it all over the roads. I can’t count the number of times I've e seen trucks hit a bump in the road and watch a spray of rocks fall to the road. Never understood why they can’t try to remove the crap piled on the decks before hitting pavement first.

 

[CORRIGAN]

I too live in Montana and have gone through 1 replacement at 13,600. The first occurred when I was leaving a gravel road and jumped on the on ramp to I-90. No cars around, speed around 60 when I heard a load metal "ping" then within a second the smash on the windshield. It appears the rock came out of the drivers front tire and hit the small open space between the fender and the steel bumper; some reverse spin sent it catapulting in front of my face and that was #1. Got a tiny chip low passenger side on the replacement and first freeze sent that running straight up.
I asked the same question about the glass quality as many of you have asked and to be honest, don't know if the factory glass specs are good or bad. I am sure some of you all have an opinion on that!

 

[IndyGuyBeast]

In my area it doesn’t matter type of glass or windshield angle. Dump trucks, logging trucks and heavy equipment haulers all hit the highways and interstate with rocks and crap from the job site and don’t give one f they are dumping it all over the roads. I can’t count the number of times I've e seen trucks hit a bump in the road and watch a spray of rocks fall to the road. Never understood why they can’t try to remove the crap piled on the decks before hitting pavement first.

Same problem where I work. There are several gravel quarries and processing plants. The dump trucks lumber in and out all day long. You can see the gravel falling off the back of the truck every time they pull out onto 96th street. They clearly don't care. The city sweeps the roads, but they would have to sweep them twice a day, every day to make a difference. By some miracle, my bronco has been spared so far, but my mustang wasn't so lucky a few years ago.

 

[MC1313]

The windshield on a Bronco will chip from even a hard shell beetle bug hitting it. But after installing ECO Shield haven’t hard any issues since. And that’s also many rocks that have banged off the windshield. The best 160.00 I ever spent.

 

[Desmolicious]

The windshield on a Bronco will chip from even a hard shell beetle bug hitting it. But after installing ECO Shield haven’t hard any issues since. And that’s also many rocks that have banged off the windshield. The best 160.00 I ever spent.

$160? Link?

 

[MC1313]

$160? Link?

https://shop.getexoshield.com/produ...Has+your+ExoShield+seen+a+year+of+adventures?
They have 2 kits one with tools and one without.

 

[skyhunter]

Stop driving so close to other cars.

Rocks can come from the other side of the jersey barrier, the can come from a truck 2 lanes over on your same side or the roadway. They can skip and jump for a while, it is often unavoidable.

Anyone that says not following too closely is the reason they have not had a break is fooling themselves. this is a low brain response.

 

[GoHawks63]

Stop following other Broncos running the stock Goodyears. Those things toss rocks like they are allergic to them.

When we went to the Moab Off-Roadeo last year, when we got off the trails and headed back at the end of the day, the guide instructed the convoy to spread out and increase the interval between each Bronco, and cruise along at 30mph for about 1/2 a mile in order to get those Goodyears to spit out their collection of rocks.

 

[exoshield]

Bronco is currently crack free, jeep has a 1" spider crack rock chip. Mostly angle from my experience, you hear the rocks hit the F150 all the time and in 10 years its on its second window.

From my personal experience the off brand windshield last longer. Every time I splurge on factory glass to get that logo in the center the window lasts less than 6 months.

Oh interesting... haven't heard of an owner preferring the off brand windshield before.

But whatever helps to replace the windshield less... that's our motto.

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