re: What can be done about windshield costs and durability?

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I guess I'm lucky. Driving 25 miles ea way (interstate) to work last 30 yrs and only one ding, which I filled and it was GTG.

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Cracked windshield incoming

I won’t replace mine until I must. Have known too many who replace only to get a new crack soon after. State Farm doesn’t cover for free and it falls under deductible.

I learned my lesson with Safelite.

Agree. I have a 2021 GMC Pickup on its fourth windshield counting the original. I spent about $1200 on the first two at Safelite and then went to a local non-chain shop and spent less. Holding my breath until the next rock.

Daily I see dump trucks with destroyed or missing tarps, just driving down the interstate shooting debris everywhere. Most of them have inadequate mudflaps also.

I also see 18 wheelers with inadequate mudflaps almost daily.

Then you have the dipshit baws towing a piece of equipment like an excavator or skidsteer on a trailer. They didn't both cleaning off the equipment before loading it on the trailer, and they're firing rocks all over the highway.

And the other dipshits with lifted trucks with wheels so offset, there's no way for the bottom of their truck to intercept the rocks flying off before finding your windshield.

Here is what is insane. State Farm has a 50 dollar deductible on glass. But the will not pay to fix rock chip. Makes no sense

I had my last truck for about a month when I was driving on the I10. Some dude ahead of me was pulling a 10 foot trailer with nothing on it but a cardboard box full of rocks.

It wasn't even a big box. But for some reason he had it strapped to the trailer instead of the bed of his truck.

And the box was open. No top. So every little bump he hit, rocks were flying everywhere.

Once I realized what he was doing, I got into another lane. As I was changing lanes, I heard the POP of a rock hitting the windshield. I pulled on side of him, and it was some Mexican dude playing on his phone paying very little attention to the fact he was driving.

I didn't see a crack or chip, so I thought I dodged a bullet.

That evening when I left work, I finally noticed the chip and a crack running the entire height of the windshield.

Cost me $300 to replace it.

I should have run that dude off the road, pulled him out of his truck, and beat the shite out of him.

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I’m thankful it’s free in Florida.

You just call a number and they come install one for you.

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God y'all are dumb. It's not free. There is no deductible in FL for windshields. You still take a ding on your insurance for a comprehensive claim.

I say this every time I replace mine and immediately get another hit. Why has technology not improved yet? We have self-driving cars...