Windshields (or windscreens) They're not bulletproof.

[Professor]

So. I've been driving a pickup truck for a very long time. In High School I swore I would never have one. "They're just for hauling and towing, cars are better for driving". little did I know I'd be doing a lot of both for the next few decades. Now I have the best of both. I drive the Batmobile, and haul a bed full of tools at the same time. The point is I have driven a pickup truck for a lot of decades. Ford, Chevy, GMC, Jeep, Toyota, and with all of them I have averaged about 6 months/windshield. That's an average. sometimes I would go almost a year without having to replace one. Sometimes it would be 2 weeks. That one sucked. I started getting supplemental insurance for windshields. $100 deductible, went up to $150, but windshields kept getting more expensive. It's been (God I hope I'm not jinxing this) over 16 months, and not a chip! Is it because of the low angle? The borosilicate? Luck?
I'd like to hear of others. How much did it cost? How much hassle? How much down time? Anyone with a chip you can live with? A crack?

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[J.Graham]

It's the angle!
And rocks are intimidated by its menacing good looks

 

[EWELON]

you know whats also weird about our windshields: no bug guts. im serious. went through a whole summer driving to the jersey shore from philly. no bugs on the windshield. plenty on the frunk face, none on the windsheld.

 

[HaulingAss]

No windshield chips or cracks after 20 months here. My F-150's windshield broke about 7 months in and once more in a couple of years. I would say it's the angle of the glass combined with the extra toughness. Nothings infallible, but I'll take any amount of lowered risk of glass replacement. It's the inconvenience of glass replacement, more than anything, that I hope to avoid.

 

[CyberT]

Just yesterday, I merged behind another truck and instantly BAM! It sounded like a missile hit the windshield. I kept looking for the crack, but the rock bounced right off the . Any other truck and it would have been a call to Safelight.

 

[Gigahorse]

Drove a Jeep for about 6 years and went through about 8 windshields.
The ANGLE of the windshield is a REALLY big deal.
The downside of the CT is we have that HUGEEEE dash and stupid hard to clean windshield, BUT it is at such a low angle that it really helps deflect.

 

[CallsignVega]

One thing I love about the CT in Colorado... which is windshield rock destruction territory. The crazy rake makes windshield damage very unlikely.

 

[SlegMD]

Less bug splat too

 

[jboss]

So. I've been driving a pickup truck for a very long time. In High School I swore I would never have one. "They're just for hauling and towing, cars are better for driving". little did I know I'd be doing a lot of both for the next few decades. Now I have the best of both. I drive the Batmobile, and haul a bed full of tools at the same time. The point is I have driven a pickup truck for a lot of decades. Ford, Chevy, GMC, Jeep, Toyota, and with all of them I have averaged about 6 months/windshield. That's an average. sometimes I would go almost a year without having to replace one. Sometimes it would be 2 weeks. That one sucked. I started getting supplemental insurance for windshields. $100 deductible, went up to $150, but windshields kept getting more expensive. It's been (God I hope I'm not jinxing this) over 16 months, and not a chip! Is it because of the low angle? The borosilicate? Luck?
I'd like to hear of others. How much did it cost? How much hassle? How much down time? Anyone with a chip you can live with? A crack?

Less bug splat too

I took a direct hit from a baseball sized rock. It flew out from between the duals of a dump truck. It was so big it was visible on the cameras so I was able to see where it came from.
I’m pretty sure it would have come through the windshield of any other vehicle. It likely would have injured the passenger based on where it hit. The damage never spread and the replacement at a Tesla service center was $1200 total. That was half the price of the last windshield I bought for a RAV4.
Really impressed.

 

[HaulingAss]

I took a direct hit from a baseball sized rock. It flew out from between the duals of a dump truck. It was so big it was visible on the cameras so I was able to see where it came from.
I’m pretty sure it would have come through the windshield of any other vehicle. It likely would have injured the passenger based on where it hit. The damage never spread and the replacement at a Tesla service center was $1200 total. That was half the price of the last windshield I bought for a RAV4.
Really impressed.

Get ready for reporters from multiple media outlets to contact you and ask for the details so they can write a story about this.

Oh...wait...

 

[Pops]

The damage never spread and the replacement at a Tesla service center was $1200 total. That was half the price of the last windshield I bought for a RAV4.
Really impressed.

Yeah that $1200 defies belief. Maybe it was good will pricing? The part itself is listed at $1,900. It is the largest windshield in any production truck I believe.

 

[Professor]

Wow, just wow. do you have pictures?

 

[Musicurry]

None-the-less, I am very comfortable paying for the $35/month windshield insurance from Tesla!

 

[DEAKBS]

I got a few different windshield chips in the first few months of having my truck sadly. And of course right before Tesla started offering the windshield insurance so I'm not elegible for it since I already had existing window chips
Mind you I was commuting 5 hours one way, and 5 hours the other way every other week. But still, I expected better from the so called Cyberbeast with its "almost" bulletproof windows

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