SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Apparently I am not allowed to own ANY vehicle with a crack free windshield! Anyone else?
I give up. It is just a fact of life in this household. I honestly can not recall the last time we had no chips or cracks in the wife's or my vehicle windshields. The brand new SUV we got in Oct 2025 already has it's "break in chip!" Ugh. Vehicle has about 2600mi on it and has not been driven further than about 35 miles from the house a few time. The other day I and one of my brothers from another mother went out to eat lunch. We are driving around in the SUV and I jinxed myself. I was telling him about one of the things they tried to add/on at signing (actually the only one).
First time I have ever been offered "windshield protection insurance." They must spy one me!? Anyway after lunch and dropping him off I had about an 8 mile ride back home on a fine sunny day with almost zero traffic on US61. I am cruising along admiring the day and I hear what sounds like a gun shot that scared the stuff out of me. I looked around. No cars in front , no vehicles behind me and none on the opposite lanes.
Ok. I get home and when I go to get out. SURPRISE! I now have a dime size crack right in front of the driver side (thankfully) only a couple inched from the cowl so it is not a vision problem. I did what we have been doing for years. Went straight to one of my tool cabinets where I keep my bottle of clear fingernail polish donated for just such things by the BOSS. We usually clean off the chip/crack and let it dry well and then coat it with clear polish to seal it. Then I take excess off with a razor a few days after it is set well. 99% of the chips / cracks I have done this to have not spread.
I was so angry at first I was gonna call the pros at Safelite who I have used in the past to replace one. They offer a so called repair service. I canned that idea when they emailed me an estimate of nearly $300. Oh well. The new SUV now matches the wife's car that has an almost identical chip in the same spot.
I give up. It is just a fact of life in this household. I honestly can not recall the last time we had no chips or cracks in the wife's or my vehicle windshields. The brand new SUV we got in Oct 2025 already has it's "break in chip!" Ugh. Vehicle has about 2600mi on it and has not been driven further than about 35 miles from the house a few time. The other day I and one of my brothers from another mother went out to eat lunch. We are driving around in the SUV and I jinxed myself. I was telling him about one of the things they tried to add/on at signing (actually the only one).
First time I have ever been offered "windshield protection insurance." They must spy one me!? Anyway after lunch and dropping him off I had about an 8 mile ride back home on a fine sunny day with almost zero traffic on US61. I am cruising along admiring the day and I hear what sounds like a gun shot that scared the stuff out of me. I looked around. No cars in front , no vehicles behind me and none on the opposite lanes.
Ok. I get home and when I go to get out. SURPRISE! I now have a dime size crack right in front of the driver side (thankfully) only a couple inched from the cowl so it is not a vision problem. I did what we have been doing for years. Went straight to one of my tool cabinets where I keep my bottle of clear fingernail polish donated for just such things by the BOSS. We usually clean off the chip/crack and let it dry well and then coat it with clear polish to seal it. Then I take excess off with a razor a few days after it is set well. 99% of the chips / cracks I have done this to have not spread.
I was so angry at first I was gonna call the pros at Safelite who I have used in the past to replace one. They offer a so called repair service. I canned that idea when they emailed me an estimate of nearly $300. Oh well. The new SUV now matches the wife's car that has an almost identical chip in the same spot.
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