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Is it just me or do they use the cheapest, thinnest windshields ever on the patriot? I've had mine for jsut under a year now. I remember in the first week I bought it one of the first times I brought it on the highway i got a rock chip.

Over the past year I've accumulated 7 different rock ships in the window. None of them have spread thankfully UNTIL this morning on the way to work. I hear the load crack noise of a stone hitting then searched the glass for a chip and then I saw it on the passenger side. About 5 seconds later it went from a small star to a 10 inch crack spreading both directions. Looks like it's time for a new cheap windshield.

Does this annoy anyone else? I realize in this city (Edmonton, Alberta) that probably 1 out of 5 cars have huge cracks in their windshield from winter driving, but I also have a 2000 Neon that I drive much more on the highway than the patriot and I don't even have so much as a tiny chip on that thing. It probably has as much to do with the angle of the glass as it does with teh quality but anyway just needed to vent.

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Pat windshield dame as others

mentobe7984 said:
Is it just me or do they use the cheapest, thinnest windshields ever on the patriot? I've had mine for jsut under a year now. I remember in the first week I bought it one of the first times I brought it on the highway i got a rock chip.

Over the past year I've accumulated 7 different rock ships in the window. None of them have spread thankfully UNTIL this morning on the way to work. I hear the load crack noise of a stone hitting then searched the glass for a chip and then I saw it on the passenger side. About 5 seconds later it went from a small star to a 10 inch crack spreading both directions. Looks like it's time for a new cheap windshield.

Does this annoy anyone else? I realize in this city (Edmonton, Alberta) that probably 1 out of 5 cars have huge cracks in their windshield from winter driving, but I also have a 2000 Neon that I drive much more on the highway than the patriot and I don't even have so much as a tiny chip on that thing. It probably has as much to do with the angle of the glass as it does with teh quality but anyway just needed to vent.

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Have had my Pat about a year and a half
have two chips on the windshield,
waiting for a third before replacing

previous car, 1998 Neon.
replaced the windshield on the neon about 4-5 times in about 9-10 yrs time
each time had at least 2-3 chips in it,
Usually wait for more than one chip before replacing, knowing i will get another eventually.
 
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Could be worse. My old Saturn SL2 had a windshield that curved around the A-pillars. The thing was a horribly expensive thing to replace, the best price I had found was just shy of $500, and that was about nine years ago.
 
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cost varies depending on area

Akula said:
Could be worse. My old Saturn SL2 had a windshield that curved around the A-pillars. The thing was a horribly expensive thing to replace, the best price I had found was just shy of $500, and that was about nine years ago.
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i work on long island, suburbs of NYC,
around hear replacing windshield on the neon, everyone charged $250 and up.
i would go brooklyn shops and never paid more than $145.00
 
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im in need of replacing mine the crackets been getting gradually bigger since decemnber 07 when it cracked from a dump truck throwing a rock lol.

started in bottom of driver side and went accross to passenger side into a t shape going vertical
 
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Crack but No Chip

I was at a stoplight this summer and I heard a pop, no other vehicle around and a small crack appeared along the left hand seal it grew to about a 3" L shaped crack. It's going to have to wait until I have mutiple problems (which I will in Vermont) before replacement.
 
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Add me to this club. A piece of road salt got kicked up and put a dinky chip in the windshield, too small to replace the windshield. To shallow to run. I suppose I should be happy about this, but it is an annoyance to my otherwise perfect patriot. Well, perfect now that the grill and front bumper were replaced to do a run in with Bambi.

Worst part about it is that it is right in front of the driver, so it will remind me of it every single day. Hope it doesn't turn me into that guy from Hawthorne's The Birth-Mark.
 
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I owned my avenger for only a couple months when 2 bad things happened

1) I hit a piece of carpet on the highway. Vehicles beside me and couldn't swerve. Big deliver trunk in front of me bounces and suddenly I see why. Scratched the front of the car on the passenger side and all down the passenger side front and back.

2) I was driving along one of the county roads and something fell out of a tree and cracked the windshield. I think it was a walnut. Repaired it and it hasn't spread yet.

- Dan M
 
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On the way to Pikes Peak from Denver, a rock chipped (they called it a pit, but when I can see it from far away, I figured it to be a chip) my windshield. After my accident in Denver, I asked the body shop to check out my chip (cheaper to fix it in their shop than by a mobile unit). I got a call back from the shop, " Um sir... which pit would you like us to fix?" I had only noticed the one, but he counted over 10 on the far right side of the windshield! I was told not to worry about them until they got bigger, other wise it would cost me way to much.

They say that HWY miles are better for a vehicle, but its hell on the windshield!
 
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I got a crack in my windshield back in October '07 on the same weekend I had a large tree limb fall on my Patriot. Since the crack happened on the opposite side of the limb impact, my insurance company told me I'd have to file another claim for the windshield. So, I held off. Well, a couple months later I had some unidentified flying debris hit my windshield which gave me another nice crack, but neither was getting any bigger, so I just let it go.
Until last month! I left my Jeep outside and when I dusted off the snow, I noticed the cracks were significantly bigger, so I got it replaced finally. Parts, labor and tax, it came to like $330 or so, but I only had to pay my $250 deductible.
 
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At the beggining I thought it was just tree sap drops...until I scratched the windshield with a needle and realized hundreds of stone chips.

I have to say last weekend there were little stones on the highway and the car ahead threw me one. When it hit the windshield it produced a very LOUUUDD sound! that I pulled over. No crack whatsoever...
 
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I see that no one else from the U.K has written in yet. I assume that, apart from me, none of you have wrecked a windscreen. Wait until that dread apocalypse arrives and you have to ring Autoglass. They'll ask you if you're fully comp and want to know your certificate number. If you can't provide it (and some of you with a nervous disposition or a heart condition may wish to look away now) they'll tell you that you may be asked for ............








.......eight hundred and sixty-five pounds. I can't do that one in dollars fellers, the maths is just too, too scary.

Rocal
 
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rocal said:
I see that no one else from the U.K has written in yet. I assume that, apart from me, none of you have wrecked a windscreen. Wait until that dread apocalypse arrives and you have to ring Autoglass. They'll ask you if you're fully comp and want to know your certificate number. If you can't provide it (and some of you with a nervous disposition or a heart condition may wish to look away now) they'll tell you that you may be asked for ............








.......eight hundred and sixty-five pounds. I can't do that one in dollars fellers, the maths is just too, too scary.

Rocal
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1 USD = something like .6 Sterling Pounds (that is what Great Britain uses right?)
 
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I don't think the windshield is cheap, it's just that the Pat's windshield has a high angle so stone chips are more likely to do damage than deflect off. Actually I'm glad they didn't slope the windshield way back at a low angle like they do with so many cars these days. I hate driving in cars like that because the view out the windshield is distorted and the dash boards are the size of a football field.
 
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NickelPlate said:
I don't think the windshield is cheap, it's just that the Pat's windshield has a high angle so stone chips are more likely to do damage than deflect off. Actually I'm glad they didn't slope the windshield way back at a low angle like they do with so many cars these days. I hate driving in cars like that because the view out the windshield is distorted and the dash boards are the size of a football field.
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That's right. Not to mention with those windshields you have the rear view mirror closer to your forehead.
 
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My last car was a 2005 mustang. Ever since buying this Jeep, I notice that I'm hearing a lot more as far as debris hitting the windshield. There's a lot of times that I'm startled and expecting something to come flying through the windshield and hit me. I never had this problem in any of my previous cars, which I guess according to others is attributed to the angle of the windshield. I have noticed a few chips, but nothing that would cause me to replace it yet.

And if I did, I'd have to wait a few months. Last summer I had to replace my Mustang windshield. The wiper must have had something stuck in the blade as it left a perfect arc across the driver side, right in the line of vision, that we tried to buff out unsuccessfully, that just annoyed me. Luckily, my insurance has separate glass coverage, so there's just a $100 deductible and can have it replaced by whoever I choose. I just don't want two claims in one here, so until any of these chips spread, I'll deal with them.
 
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mentobe7984, I noticed the same thing driving around here in Calgary. I had my Pat on the road not more than a month when a rock fell off a dump truck on the way to Drumheller. That chip, slowly crept from the top of the passenger side of the windshield, all the way to the bottom...but before it disappeared into the weather stripping, it took a hard 90 and shot straight across the bottom portion of the window and now sits nicely in line with the 'J' on my steering wheel.

Going to wait until they start sweeping up the road rocks to replace it this year.
Before my Jeep, I had a blazer, never had chips.
 
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