Burst32

I have a little one and it shows in my tint visor and looks UGLY!!!!!!!

Burst32

Well, basically, we all just have to come to except that no matter how well we take car of our cars, SOMETHING will ALWAYS screw it up. Here are examples:

1. highways
2. potholes
3. nature in general
4. idiots in parking lots
5. salt on the roads (screw you California people haha)
6. winter
7. dumb people
8. EVERY ROAD IN THE ENTIRE MIDWEST

IS_Mine

Thats funny. I have 17k miles on my IS and 1 rock chip. 97% of my driving is interstate related. I think some of you guys need to stop tailing cars and you won't have this problem. :P

Gtidan

And what windshield does not get pitted over time. Geeeeez, quit complaining.

gassman

"Over time" like less than one year?

Gtidan

Time has little to do with it.......rather it's miles and the type of roads you drive on. I live in Southern California, drive the freeways, etc. The car is eight months old and 5,300 miles. No chips yet.......clear as new!

My VW GTI VR6 seemed to pit very easy and looked sandblasted after a year or so. Not so with the Benz or the Lexus....at least not yet.

Good Luck

caymandive

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I'm on my second windshield. I do agree the original windshield was very prone to pits and chips. Must be the angle the windshield lays at in relationship to all the small stones that fly up once in awhile. Hopefully the new windshield (non-lexus) is a bit tougher. <<<--- Not really counting on it, but I will be keeping more distance from other cars.

ATLIS350

The pitting issue has nothing to do with the type of roads we drive on. Chips maybe, but not pitting. I drive on nothing but some of the best highway roads in the country and have had 4 new cars in the last 5 years and the IS is the only one that looks like its covered in millions of tiny dots when facing the sun. I can barely see through it. Less the 12k miles does not equal a bad windshield on most any car out there, but it does with my IS.

danis

Got PPG brand windshield for $290 installed after rock pitted the original. The new one seems to be much better for chips and the rear view mirror no longer shakes.

caymandive

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I have the PPG windshield too and you know I think you are right about the rear view mirror shake issue. I think it's gone or I just haven't been paying attention. I'll have to take a look tomorrow.

is4fsr

Really? What's the catch? Free but increase in premium? What criteria?

lobuxracer

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USAA does the same. Free repair. If you replace, you pay the deductible.

CoasterG

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In Florida your insurance has to replace the windshield for free if its damaged. Specified by statute from what my insurance agent said when I had to replace my old Acura TL Type S windshield after about 3000 mi due to rock damage.

warrionex

Some of you have the problem others don't. This issue is very weird, since cracks in the windshield should be an exception not the rule and I'm amaze how many of you have this problem. Lexus corporate must know this at once. A third party supplier must be responsible for this production line issue.

Maybe Toyota know this and they are intentionally silent to avoid the costly recall.

Warrionex

gassman

I think what is really bothering me is the pitting in the glass. I have a few small rock chips, yet the glass looks dirty or even hazey because of the pitting or "sand blasting" effect.