The first one was a fairly big stone chip that then created a huge crack in the screen once the sun heated it and then a month later two small chips also resulted in huge cracks. Co-incidence or not so much?
Hopefully that's your windscreen quota for the next 10 years. Do you drive close to the car in front?
Screens seem to be a bitch like this! I had the screen replaced on my r53 mini and got a bloody great big chip in it within a week! One stone chip in 3 years of ownership and it happens right after a new screen!!
Don't know whether there is such a thing as cheap glass but the windscreen on my RS250 was peppered with tiny stone chips . the side window didn't fare much better after winding it down with beach sand on it after parking on the promenade one stormy day, nice vertical scratches.
They are really thin. I gave the fitter a hand change one on my then 6 month old Trophy, and I expected it to be really heavy. Turns out one person can easily handle them even bending over the bonnet. Seemed to be made from nothing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The quality of the screens used by the fitting companies is a bit dubious. OEM is usually more substantial, although these companies claim OEM, but they are only OEM fitment....big difference. I had no end of trouble after my Disco3 one was changed out. Poor fitment and the heating elements only worked on half the screen.
I have a non oem screen on mine and it's pretty bad for small chips, like someone has sandblasted it. Ill be sticking a hammer through it st some point and requesting an actual Renault screen next time [emoji23]
Luck of the draw I think. A friend of mine had three screens in a year in his Mondeo ST. I've only ever had to have one changed in 15 years of driving. Saying that, when I did, I'd got three substantial chips in the space of a couple of months.
Not sure if this was in reply to my post, but in my case, I helped lift out the old screen and and put in the new and they were the same, weight wise. I guess light weight windsceens are a win-win for the manufactures as there is no downside to them - car becomes lighter and hence better, and they save money. The consumer pays the same. Then pays again when they break.
