Skullbussa

I only have 4500 miles on my '11 GT and I already have 3 rock chips on my windshield. I have had 4 cars in the last 5 years and drive the same way to/from work. I have never had any of my other cars get so many rock chips from driving.

Is this glass notoriously lousy or something? Am I the only one experiencing this?

illini4

My 07 GT has lots of tiny chips that are noticable when driving into direct sunlight. I would agree that the glass seems a little soft. Another thing is light bulbs. I just replaced a rear turn signal bulb last night (50,000 miles), the second of those so far, in addition to the center brake light bulb. I think there has been some cost-cutting going on.

akiba17

Not here and I have traveled in the highway quite a bit.

aaquib1992

None for me, and I take the highway every day. Although I do get chips on my bumper occasionally, thankfully white is really easy to touch up =D

You can get those cracks fixed, my parents had some guy come in for our acura and he fixed all the little nicks, spider cracks, whatever, with some polymer and this weird suction cup looking thing in about 30 minutes.

Good as new!

Riptide

IMO the glass on these cars is cheap crap. It's made in Mexico. My 06 has been a chip magnet ever since I've owned it. It doesn't take much.

If you live in an area where the roads don't get sand or gravel because of winter then you won't see problems. Anyone who lives in an area with that type of service during the winter will see more issues. The cheapness of the glass on these cars just magnifies it.

pdonket

Interesting. Actually I've sorta admired the chip resisting ability of the windshield, the other day I actually saw the small rock fly up into the windshield, made a pretty loud noise but didn't leave any marks at all. My windshield is completely clean of any problems and I have about 5k miles on the car, most of them highway.

JIM5.0

I have chips on my windshield, maybe 3. They are too damn hard to see; but I only got them from hard hits. Probably marble sized rocks that hit the window hard.
They hit so hard that I even with my radio cranked up to nearly full blast, I heard the hits.

No cranks so far.

pascal

I think that one has to carefully review the daily commute roads...
It could be that a small stretch of gravel area that will be part of that daily trip, will raise the odds of having chips considerably.

Guys living up North are exposed to that at this time of the year since the snow is melting and all you have left is gravel.
Not good.

alkemist

I have one chip in the windshield because they were repaving a road I took to work. Not to mention the endless amount of dump trucks that was traveling it due to construction. I don't follow behind dumps but of course they will still drop that gravel that goes bounce.. bounce.. bounce

99horsey

Must be a Your Mileage May Vary situation. I've had good luck so far with my 2006 (knock on wood). My 99 on the other hand, was like a Hoover when it came to rocks. Chips all over the windshield and the hood (with chunks taken out of it since it was like a fiberglass material)...