My BMW, I picked up in Munich thru Eurodelivery, and drove it around for 2 weeks. 5th day, I was driving from Normandy past Paris and got a pebble on my windshield. The crack started to grow to about 12", so I had to stop at Versailles. Found a tiny BMW service center, and they told me that I should continue to drive it until my trip was over, and that they'd replace it at the VSC when it gets to the US. The insurance they include with your eurodelivery covered the replacement.
That's a real bummer. I'm surprised. How is this happening? Is it a problem in NY or are you just driving much too close to other cars at high speed? I guess I should not consider myself to be lucky. I have yet to get a chip during my 3 years of interstate driving. Now that I said it, I'm sure I will get one today.
yes, it is actually very clean of any nicks. Probably helps that I don't drive faster than the interstate speed limit like everyone passing me at 90 mph, and I don't tail gate. The wife..... that is a different story. On similar routes we have had to fix several nicks on her car. She does drive close and fast and get rocks kicked up from the car in front. While I am sure this isn't the only reason, I do think it helps to not drive so close to other cars.
good info. About that 2-3 car distance quote. I don't base distance that way when I drive. I base it on time to reach the same point as the car in front. At 80 mph on interstate up here (the legal speed limit), if I am not at least 2 seconds behind the car in front, then I am likely to get little rocks kicked up from the car in front. It's at least 5 car lengths.
Maybe I'm confused, but I thought the car distance increments were time gaps and not car length gaps. So, a car distance setting of 2-3 means actually a gap of 1 sec to 1.5sec, no? Each unit is half a second. And a car distance setting of 7 means a time gap of 3.5 secs? Did I pick up that notion from somewhere, wrong?
Oh I see what you mean. I was not talking about the stalk setting on the car. I was referring to my timing. Example, I see a car pass over a center line mark and then count roughly 2 seconds to give me an idea that I am back far enough to reduce the likelihood of rock hits on the car. I don't really understand the setting of the stalk numbers. And come to think of it, I have no nicks on my front or hood either. This is after 3 years and 35K miles of mostly interstate driving. Yes, many factors and surely also depends on where people drive. I sure notice a big difference in various state. Just saying it has probably helped me a bit by staying farther back on the interstate.
Hello,
Check the outside of the crack, very carefully, for an impact. If there is, then you'll have no luck with trying to say it's anything other than an impact crack. Anecdotally, it seems some people have had warranty replacement for stress fractures on top and rear glass, seeing as impacts are far less likely in those areas. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Someone dropped their bike off their roof rack onto the roof glass cracking it, that sort of thing.
