Windscreen cracked, not from stonechip ... Faulty?

Googlyamnesiac · 02-02-2010, 04:15 PM

Today on my drive home, I noticed that siddenly at the bottom of my windscreen a crack suddenly appeared, within seconds it then cracked all the way up the windscreen.

After calling Autoglass and my insurance (£60 excess) I then had a thought, is this a manufacturing defect that I could take back to BMW? I'm out of warranty so I suspect there's nothing I could do but had to question is here just to see what people thought. It wasn't like a stonechip or anything caused the crack, it happened about 15 seconds after turning on my blower to point at the windscreen...

M3-FAST · 02-03-2010, 04:32 AM

.....ask Gavin from Autoglass, he can fix anything just by squirting his 'special resin' in the crack

Apparantly it is a bi-product of t'Otters

MIKEYBMW1 · 02-03-2010, 01:59 PM

the same thing happened to my van Yesterday morning , how wierd is that ?

Googlyamnesiac · 02-03-2010, 02:02 PM

I don't suppose you didn't put your windscreen blower on until your van had been running a fair while did you?

I think mine might have been caused by the outside temp being so cold and then as my engine was fully warm and I directed it at the windscreen for the first time the difference in temp caused it to crack?

Only logical explanation I can seem to come up with in my head.

£60 to get it fixed ... they said a new windscreen from the dealers would be approx £700, so I guess I can't really moan too much!

Googlyamnesiac · 02-03-2010, 02:03 PM

plus during my weekend cleaning of the car I didn't bother cleaning the windscreen, quite glad now, at least i'll get a new clean screen :-)

matt@stratford · 02-03-2010, 02:19 PM

My cracked last week due to a stone! I asked for a BMW screen due to the rain sensor, climate comfort and green band. I was informed that BMW no longer supply any screen with the green band, so I have had to have BMWs alternative. Bit crap really

greatbm · 02-03-2010, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by matt@stratford

My cracked last week due to a stone! I asked for a BMW screen due to the rain sensor, climate comfort and green band. I was informed that BMW no longer supply any screen with the green band, so I have had to have BMWs alternative. Bit crap really

Is it not a grey band my e93 is.

matt@stratford · 02-03-2010, 05:20 PM

Mine is definately green. If you look on real OEM it has about 10 variants

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MIKEYBMW1 GT3 49 Rep 1,679 Posts Drives: PORSCHE GT3 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: LINCOLNSHIRE UK iTrader: (1)	the same thing happened to my van Yesterday morning , how wierd is that ? __________________ PORSCHE GT3
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Googlyamnesiac Captain 60 Rep 743 Posts Drives: 2013 F10 520D Join Date: May 2009 Location: Yorkshire, UK iTrader: (3)	I don't suppose you didn't put your windscreen blower on until your van had been running a fair while did you? I think mine might have been caused by the outside temp being so cold and then as my engine was fully warm and I directed it at the windscreen for the first time the difference in temp caused it to crack? Only logical explanation I can seem to come up with in my head. £60 to get it fixed ... they said a new windscreen from the dealers would be approx £700, so I guess I can't really moan too much!
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Googlyamnesiac Captain 60 Rep 743 Posts Drives: 2013 F10 520D Join Date: May 2009 Location: Yorkshire, UK iTrader: (3)	plus during my weekend cleaning of the car I didn't bother cleaning the windscreen, quite glad now, at least i'll get a new clean screen :-)
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matt@stratford First Lieutenant 46 Rep 386 Posts Drives: F36 440i GC M Sport Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Weston Subedge iTrader: (0)	My cracked last week due to a stone! I asked for a BMW screen due to the rain sensor, climate comfort and green band. I was informed that BMW no longer supply any screen with the green band, so I have had to have BMWs alternative. Bit crap really
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matt@stratford First Lieutenant 46 Rep 386 Posts Drives: F36 440i GC M Sport Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Weston Subedge iTrader: (0)	Mine is definately green. If you look on real OEM it has about 10 variants
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