preventing stone windshield rock chips

[lemen]

Thank you for your responses.

This is more for my daughter bc she just had her 3rd or 4th windshield replaced in 2yrs.

Looked at the film coverings and they last about a yr b4 getting cloudy, scratches from wiper blades, etc.

Hopefully a product will emerge w a much better ROI & > longevity, but for now, there's nothing really sustainable The last one i received had nothing to do w tailgating. Single lane country rd and truck coming at me dropped rocks snd hit windshield when passing it. That's the luck of the draw.

I also prefer staying in far rt lane snd let gravel based trucks take the far left lane.

Not to be unkind, but this is hardly readable for not american citizens.
B4 and those kind of things looks more like a rebus than language.

I'm not the only one that have probles with it I guess:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/humor.560203/page-132#post-7250683

The second picture

 

[Old Jarhead 03]

I used a Rain-X 600001 Windshield Repair Kit to fix a couple of chips. A bit of a pain to use, but it worked great and kept chips from running.

 

[rocco611]

Had one about 4" tall on a 77 Ford F250. Didn't help keeping rocks from hitting the windshield. It did help with bugs and chips on the front edge of the hood. I always keep a glue kit around to fix chips soon after they happen. I live down the road from a quarry

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Yes, but 3 repairs in 6 months (or something like that) will get you a letter from your insurance company saying you're being dropped. That happened to me 25 years ago.

If you need 3 windshields replaced in 6 months I can understand be dropped, you would be better off with a piece of plexi-glass.

 

[mx842]

Hello to all,

Based on a lot of Interstate driving, having small rocks hit the windshield happens too often. Are there any new technologies that help prevent the chipping and resultant cracks? Never had one installed, but they used to have those plastic "air-lifts" installed on the front of the hood. Do those work or are they obsolete?

thank you in-advance for your suggestions.

They work!

 

[SwingOak]

It's a sign of living thru the 1990's, that my mind went immediately to, "did Mythbusters do an episode on this?" Well, damn...

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My landlord had been in Morocco in the early/mid 80's and said he got it there. I always assumed gimmicky things like that would not do much of anything except separate a tourist from their money. In fact, a couple of years later I was following a friend of mine up into the back country and his truck threw a rock about 1" across right through my windshield. And when I say through, it made a hole. No fixing that.

I travel a lot for work (And by a lot I mean almost every week), and get to pick anything I want for a rental car most of the time. I like Wranglers, they're fun to drive. Every single one except relatively new ones (<3000 miles) has chips, cracks and bullseyes in the windshield. It's a function of the mostly flat angle and direction of impact. Par for the course.