Today is not my day (windshield woes)

[moroza]

Wrong side of the bed or something, I don't know. I put a few neat cracks in my windshield when the right wiper arm, sans wiper blade, pried loose from my hand and smacked the glass, while I was reinstalling the blade. It was the last in a series of minor disasters to happen today (the day'sn't over yet, but I intend to spend the rest of it curled up in bed with a bottle, because it's been rough and needn't continue). So...any idea what it'd cost to fix? Can it even be fixed, or is replacement my only option?

[atl530i]

You may need to replace that. If it were like a small spider crack you may get away with a repair but longer cracks are just not repairable. At least that is what I can tell.

[forsaken]

hey man, it happened to me too last year. I found a glass shop on Craigslist that was running a sale... i think a new windshield installed cost me around $150.

[atl530i]

hey man, it happened to me too last year. I found a glass shop on Craigslist that was running a sale... i think a new windshield installed cost me around $150.

Nice, there needs to be one of those in the Atlanta area as I have a small crack along the bottom of my windshield. The wipers cover it :)

[540i6Mike]

Take it to a quality auto glass shop immediately! Not sure of the damage, but IF it is repairable waiting will make it worse--or even worse no longer repairable. I once had a chip that then turned into a small crack then a bigger one that grew daily until it beautifully obstructed the entire winshield. The glass shop said they could have fixed the chip for $20, but the winshield was hundreds. Doh!

[atl530i]

+1

That little chip can turn into an expensive adventure :) Happened on my friends Nissan. Like you said a $20 repair turned into a few hundred dollar repair.

[moroza]

Evidently it's not repairable. The biggest crack is a good 14-15" long. And it's from the inside :confused. No idea how that happened, but it'd be a lot harder to patch up even if it weren't so big. So replacement it is. 280 bucks at a local glass shop. An acquaintance of mine said that it might be possible to replace it with a plexiglas (sp?) windshield, which would be lighter and have better sound insulation. Anybody know anything about this?

[spyrot1]

Look on the bright side...

think of this as an opportunity to replace a 15+ year old windsheild that is full of tiny pits and scratches, and in which it becomes impossible to see out of when you have sun glare...

[moroza]

Ehh...thanks for the half-full glass, but my windshield was actually quite nice. Excepting the crack, it's probably a lot nicer than one I'm going to find at a junkyard. So anyone know anything about plexiglas ones?