Best way to Protect a Bronco's Windshield?

[cbrownabq]

How do you avoid windshield cracks? Stay off Colorado roads…

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[Kmcran]

Nearly every rock chip I've ever got - and living in AK I get a LOT - has come off of oncoming vehicles, so that's not exactly useful advice.

This literally happened to me in my mustang this week. Dump truck passing me going the opposite direction on a two lane road slung a rock right at my windshield. Owned the car for 3 years and never had any chips. That was my 2nd in the last two weeks. The first was an f150 cut me off while he was weaving through traffic and slung a rock up. People act like anything is preventable but the reality is sh*t happens

 

[HardenUp]

These comments have me rolling

 

[NMBronco2021]

Nearly every rock chip I've ever got - and living in AK I get a LOT - has come off of oncoming vehicles, so that's not exactly useful advice.

Here in NM rocks seem to fall out of the sky...dust devils have taken out two of my windshield and not by tailgating.

 

[JDS]

Dikembe Mutombo. The only way to be sure

 

[ReimundKrohn]

I emailed Gorilla Glass Windshield company and asked if they would make Gorilla Glass windshields for the Bronco..they said 90% probability they would.

Gorilla Glass windshields are not all they are “cracked up” to be. Check out the Wrangler forum. Some of the GG windshields didn’t even survive shipping to the dealer for install…. And the 3M film offered over windshields has already been made illegal in some states, as it separates from the windshield over time causing distortion and making it difficult to see through.

There is no easy fix here, unfortunately. Be prepared to replace your windshield more frequently than on other vehicles.

 

[Techun]

Insurance

 

[Dewreckingcrew]

Just drive with the windshield wipers on the fastest speed

 

[ThunderSquatch]

I have to put a windshield in my vehicles every year or two due to the gravel on the roads in the winter, just one of those things. I haven't heard of anything that works and holds up.

I am actually jealous, I wish they would throw gravel on roads here in PA when it snows. Instead they spray brine before a storm and then they toss layers upon layers of rock salt. This absolutely destroys vehicles. I would gladly accept an occasional broken windshield over having to watch a new vehicle’s underside covered in rust after one winter, then it only gets worse from there.

 

[ItsVinylYall]

I installed Stek Dynoflex Windsheild protection film, while it’s not guaranteed — it is an added layer on the exterior of the windsheild and also has a coating in it, repelling water. So far so good.

 

[AKBronc49]

I am actually jealous, I wish they would throw gravel on roads here in PA when it snows. Instead they spray brine before a storm and then they toss layers upon layers of rock salt. This absolutely destroys vehicles. I would gladly accept an occasional broken windshield over having to watch a new vehicle’s underside covered in rust after one winter, then it only gets worse from there.

Yeah, I'm not complaining at all. Yearly windshields are better than rust imo.

 

[MyATV]

A neighbor of mine has a souped-up Rubicon that he only brings out of the garage on weekends. It's pristine like a museum piece. That's how you do it.

 

[MikeyFrog]

Chicken wire

 

[Bob Blaylock]

A neighbor of mine has a souped-up Rubicon that he only brings out of the garage on weekends. It's pristine like a museum piece. That's how you do it.

I do not know by what process it was selected, or who was involved, but a slogan that was picked for my graduating high school class in 1981 was, “A ship in the harbor is safe; but that's not what ships are for.”

Throughout my adult life, it seems that circumstances have often come up for which this motto is apropos.

I know, when I finally get my Bronco, it is not going to stay pristine, and unscathed for very long. It's going to get dirty, it's going to get scratched, it's going to get dented. To worry too much about protecting it from the consequences of getting out and being used according to it's purpose would be to miss the point of such a vehicle.

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