preventing stone windshield rock chips

[Shawn T. W.]

You were not the city guy then.

Do you now dig rocks out of your tires? Not because of windshields?

If I'm bored and have time, yes.

As I do drive into customer lots that are gravel ... And so is my driveway ...

 

[areid]

When I spent over an hour traveling each way to work, it was usually on the PA turnpike or Rts 81, 80, 322 etc. In Winter it doesn't matter how you try to maintain space. "Traction material" gets kicked up by all the vehicles. Being 30 carlengths behind another vehicle only means that there's a line of other vehicles passing you while kicking up the saltwater/grit mixture.

On highways where there are Jersey barriers in lieu of expanses of grass or woods, approaching vehicles toss stuff at you. Years ago I was heading East on PA283 and a truck coming West plowed through a patch of stone-filled slush and threw it over the Jersey barrier. Made an awful splat, but the glass was fine. When I got to Lancaster and stopped at a traffic light I noticed steam coming up in front. No damage to the grille but one fin of the radiator had a nick. Did a temporary solder fix that lasted forever

In Saskatchewan (canadian province) rear mud flaps rea mandatory but not so in other provinces.

 

[garry1p]

I don't think there is an aftermarket device that works.

Best bet is insurance or if you suspect you be having lots of problems set aside a monthly savings amount.

 

[WinterDeere]

But then most of our "highways" are dirt/gravel. Not much pavement in this part of the country.

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That's gotta be hell on the Ferrari.

 

[deserteagle71]

That's gotta be hell on the Ferrari.

Those roads are hell on anything not wearing LT type tires.

Not long ago I was driving a remote dirt road in southern Oregon. Not much out there for many, many miles except for sagebrush and one area of hot springs. Suddenly I see a guy come running out of the desert toward the road I was driving, frantically waving his arms so I stopped. His feet were bleeding - he was wearing open sandals, not what you wear when running through desert where everything has a thorn. Told me his car had a flat off on one of the side roads leading to a hot spring and he needed help because he couldn't figure out how to change the flat tire. I loaded him up and drove over to where his car...one of those ultra-expensive low-slung Mercedes sports cars, the tires of which could best be described as a rubber band stretched around a metal rim. And of course those tires were never designed for rocky dirt roads. California plates, of course. I got his tire changed for him - first vehicle I've ever seen where there were no lugs on a hub that lug nuts screwed on to. On this Mercedes the tires mounted with long bolts with tapered heads that screwed into holes in the wheel hubs. The jack that came with the car fit into an opening (with a cover over it) in the car body! Once I got him going again I advised him to keep that thing on smooth pavement.......