Poor quality windshield??
Pole Position
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 284
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From: OH
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
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
Lead Lap
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 445
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From: Southern California
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
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
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.
Driver School Candidate
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 12
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From: GA
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
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
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Lead Lap
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 583
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From: CA
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.
Lead Lap
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 665
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From: PR
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
Maybe Toyota know this and they are intentionally silent to avoid the costly recall.
Warrionex
Thread Starter
Pole Position
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 288
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From: Oklahoma
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.