May 25, 2006 8:14:21 PM
- Carlos from Spain
- Rennteam Moderator
- Loc: Spain. , Spain
- Posts: 21156, Gallery
- Registered on: Feb 9, 2003
997 windshield chips-cracks
I would like some feedback on this, the reason is because back in February I stone hit my windshiled and made a huge chip. I though "wow! must of hit just right".
Getting hit by stones is a normal thing, but I have never had to replace a windshiled before, the marks have been too small or insignificant, I have been lucky, but this one called for a new windshiled IMO. So I get a new windshield.
1 week later I get hit, the impact is nothing spectacular, but and another big chip results from it!... I say, how is that for luck. But it was in a corner and far right so it didn't bother me.
Two weeks ago, I'm parking my car in an underground garage and all of a sudden a 5cm crack appears all of a sudden in another place on the other side of the windshield. I look closely and there was a minuscule chip that seemed to be the originator. So small, I didn't even noticed when it happened and may have confused it with a faint insect impact. So yet again another windshield!!
On the way back home that day BTW, when at speeds over 250km/h you could see the crack getting bigger and bigger, by the time I got home its was 3 x times the size
Anyway, I had the Porsche guys put a new windshield again yesterday, and today coming back from work at normal speeds I get hit with a little stone, a small impact like many times it happens, but it left another nice chip in the middled of the one day old windshiled!
Its a nighmare, the windshiled seems to chip and crack with any "normal" impact. I have driven many cars, get hit many times and unless the impact is a big one, there is ussually little if no damage.
But my experience in this car is that unless its been the most unlucky experience in the whole world with incredible conicidences for some reason or I'm going to go through a new windshield every couple of months!!
Has it been just a coincidence? I can't find another explanation have you found the windshield of the 997 to crack easily?