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The windshield ended up catching an object during the tail end of the snow
storm driving to PA on the Jersey turnpike last Sunday night. I am having
the dealer replace the windshield with a genuine Honda windshield on
Tuesday- my question is - should I be concerned the crack started from to
top of the glass under the upper molding? I emailed the previous owner and
he said he never had glass or roof problems. the car now has 92k miles on
it. I plan to keep it for 300k miles or more. the crack is about 10 inches
long, grown down in front of my vision area. I didn't feel comfortable
having safelite replace the glass in the parking lot in PA on my business
trip. Do they make their own glass?
Rocky

Usually the dealer subs this work out. I would be very surprised if the
dealer is doing it. You might be ahead with the Honda windshield though.


"Rocky" <jcadellano.spam@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> The windshield ended up catching an object during the tail end of the snow
> storm driving to PA on the Jersey turnpike last Sunday night. I am having
> the dealer replace the windshield with a genuine Honda windshield on
> Tuesday- my question is - should I be concerned the crack started from to
> top of the glass under the upper molding? I emailed the previous owner
> and he said he never had glass or roof problems. the car now has 92k
> miles on it. I plan to keep it for 300k miles or more. the crack is about
> 10 inches long, grown down in front of my vision area. I didn't feel
> comfortable having safelite replace the glass in the parking lot in PA on
> my business trip. Do they make their own glass?
> Rocky
>

Rocky wrote:
> The windshield ended up catching an object during the tail end of the snow
> storm driving to PA on the Jersey turnpike last Sunday night. I am having
> the dealer replace the windshield with a genuine Honda windshield on
> Tuesday- my question is - should I be concerned the crack started from to
> top of the glass under the upper molding? I emailed the previous owner and
> he said he never had glass or roof problems. the car now has 92k miles on
> it. I plan to keep it for 300k miles or more. the crack is about 10 inches
> long, grown down in front of my vision area. I didn't feel comfortable
> having safelite replace the glass in the parking lot in PA on my business
> trip. Do they make their own glass?
> Rocky

I don't know if anyone else ever had this happen, but I had a
windshield replaced by a mobile installer once. I left the car at home
and when I returned that evening, I noticed there were dents in each
fender where the installer had placed his knees while he placed the
windshield and leaned into the fender. It caused $340 in damage. The
glass company paid for the damage after all was said and done. Most
recently, we had a windshield replaced on our Ford at the dealership
(don't really know who actually did the job) and when I picked up the
car, there were "knee" marks on the fender. These didn't actually cause
dents, just marks in the dust/dirt that was on the car. Something to
look out for.