R.I.P 2008 Pri Windshield

So the question is: did you really take that first photo while driving 69mph on a freeway?

 

Hell, I am more impressed that at 46 degrees out and at 69 MPH you getting 77+ MPG!!

Way to go!!

KK6PD

 

One thing about driving a SUV on the highway I never worried about errant stones hitting the windshield. I had a Toyota Celica with 250 k miles and I went through three windshields. I am wondering what does a Prius windshield replacement cost?

 

This happened to mine when she was only a week old. Driving on I405 north of Bellevue when a stone flew up and cracked my windshield. Drove straight to a window repair place and had it fixed.

I think it was $0. Pemco covered it 100%.

 

Well, knock on wood, my Prius is still crack and chip free. Even more amazing, my FJ Cruiser is also crack and chip free

If you believe some FJ Cruiser owners, the flat front windshield will spontaneously crack just sitting in the garage

 

I think my trade in value on my Tundra suffered because of 4 cracks in the windshield and 1 on the side window from a sandstorm. One was from offroading, and hte others were from driving back and forth from San Diego to Queen Creek, AZ.

So far none on my Prius after 14,000 miles 9.5 months **knock on wood**

 

i almost had a piece of 2x4 get launched through my window at 15k miles... a truck in the oncoming lane tagged it with his wheel and it jumped at my car, missing the windshield and landing a few inches behind the glass.. making a dent on my roof.

i've been hit with all kinds of rocks & such...

 

(Just don't knock on the Prius glass, it might crack.)

Exact opposite here. The Tundra has a number of chips/divots at the margin but no cracks, no stars. The Prius window has a single tiny chip/divot that has cracked halfway across the windshield--meandering path, probably just to p*** me off. :brick: I can recall the various hits that produced the Tundra chips and remember seeing some of the rocks, the Prius chip remains a mystery. The crack developed as a loud pop on a stretch of open interstate with no vehicles around, so barring a tiny meteorite strike the chip came earlier.

The outer Prius glass layer appears to be particularly thin. When it does come time to replace the glass, I'm planning to go back with PPG glass, because that is who made the OEM glass for my Tundra. I don't trust the Thai OEM Toyota glass based on my experience and others here.

What I'm waiting on is to see if I get a second chip that also cracks. If that happens (absent other chips) then I'm going to push for warranty coverage as it would be an extremely high probability that the original glass sample was defective. It's an experiment at this point. If the glass was okay and I was just unlucky then I would expect a half a dozen other small chips without any cracks.

I've looked at half a dozen other Prius windshields in lots, all had some chips similar in size to mine and some near the edge. One might call chipping a regional issue...but I've seen the same sort of propensity for windshield chips on other vehicles when living for years or decades in Texas and Georgia as well, so that theory doesn't apply to my vehicles.