First Windshield Cracked

[JakeC]

Hanover Insurance Group. I pay about $170 a month. Worth it, as they said that the windshield was probably going to be somewhere between $800 and $1000!!

Many on the forums have had to pay about $1500. The extra expense being the required re-alignment of the included safety auto-braking sensors at the top-center of the glass.

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[AK SNO RIDER]

Man some people have all the luck. Mine is cracked (and I mean cracked, not chipped) at 1000 miles. 6000 woulda been nice.

Has anybody had theirs replaced? I'm wondering how long the backorder situation is. Obviously this is a Ford branded windshield that's on backorder.

I was told 6-8 weeks. Didn't even bother ordering one.

 

[broncoGIRL21]

Many on the forums have had to pay about $1500. The extra expense being the required re-alignment of the included safety auto-braking sensors at the top-center of the glass.

You are correct. Totally forgot that they mentioned that as well. Thus, the extra windshield insurance is worth it!! UGH.

 

[Gotdesl]

I have had mine replaced. I used Safelite and specifically requested OEM glass. This was just a few weeks (3‐4) ago, but they had the glass in under two weeks. I'm not sure their actual order to delivery time as I had to schedule it based on being off of work. Total cost was right at $1k and included recalibration. The glass cost itself was just over $500.

 

[goalie]

1200 miles, and cracked all the way up the middle yesterday. I was out on trails all day Saturday, no incidents, got no the freeway to come home and someone's car tossed a rock at me.

 

[Rdavis]

Ford has stop the order of glass, they have a new order number, I don’t have. But let’s hope it’s a recall. @Ford

 

[OleGreenBronco]

I’m on windshield number 2 with 2,700 miles. Luckily the Safelite near my work is a huge warehouse and they had one in stock.

 

[drew707]

Ford has stop the order of glass, they have a new order number, I don’t have. But let’s hope it’s a recall. @Ford

They increased the thickness of the glass

 

[broncoGIRL21]

I’m on windshield number 2 with 2,700 miles. Luckily the Safelite near my work is a huge warehouse and they had one in stock.

I'm jealous. Mine took 4 weeks!!

 

[CowboyKid]

it’s taken a beating in the 20,000 miles I’ve put on

Well I got a rock in under 1000 miles on the ODO. On a city street doing 30 with a little Honda about 10 yards ahead. Dead center of driver’s side but high enough to be only a little annoying. Got it fixed at Novus the next day for $100. They did a poor job, left 1/4 of the divot infilled. But I was in a hurry to leave so didn’t complain, figuring I’d just live with it. Then it cracked today in 2 opposing directions, about 7” total. I called Novus and they said sorry, no warranty on the repair; but they would credit it to a new windshield install. (Nice business model.) Novus quoted just under $1000 (coincidence?) for glass, install, calibration, and tax, and a 7-10 day wait for the glass. I’m in Seattle. Will be driving east over the mountains into the winter to go hunting later this week and would love the glass to be fixed pronto so the crack doesn’t become catastrophic. (In a former life I worked in spares and repairs for the military and am floored that Ford didn’t send a spare windshield to the dealer with every Bronco delivered.) Can I do better?

 

[HCGxKaLiBeR]

Mine has no crack yet but mine has many tiny chips. Like right in front of my view.
Sun shines the right way It glares really bad. I might as well starting looking for replacement -.-

 

[LABlueBronco]

I gotta a chip with 270 miles, at most, on it. Safelite repaired it yesterday, but you can still see the "crack" in the lamination below the chip. Hopefully, the repair holds.

 

[JimboSlice]

I got three rock chips on the same day, three weeks after I got my Bronco. One ended up being a foot long crack. The windshield recall came out right after that. I was able to get an appointment in Reno (an hour away) but it was two months out. I let them know that my windshield was cracked and they would have to have an OEM windshield for my appointment. I called the day before my appointment to make sure they had one. Of course they didn't and just blew me off. I was pissed. It's winter now so I will try again in the spring.

 

[TxBronc]

Stupid question, but is there a way with forscan to do away with the safety crap? I’ve lived over 35 years of driving without it.

 

[555-RGNE]

I got three rock chips on the same day, three weeks after I got my Bronco. One ended up being a foot long crack. The windshield recall came out right after that. I was able to get an appointment in Reno (an hour away) but it was two months out. I let them know that my windshield was cracked and they would have to have an OEM windshield for my appointment. I called the day before my appointment to make sure they had one. Of course they didn't and just blew me off. I was pissed. It's winter now so I will try again in the spring.

I'm in the same boat. I caught a rock at the very top edge of the windshield, which caused a ~6" crack to form. It slowly grew to about 12" over time, but this morning it decided to just take off and run all the way across the windshield, horizontally. I went ahead and scheduled to have my recall fixed, expecting that they'll just have to replace the whole windshield anyway due to the fact that it likely won't stay together upon removal. The odds of them pre-ordering a windshield for me are at nearly 0%, but I told them I have to have a loaner and can wait on dropping it off until one is available.

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