I guess I might well be teaching you guys to suck eggs but I just had to have a windscreen replaced on my STi. A rather lovely crack had spread halfway across the screen and this wasn't down to a stone chip.

While the guy was replacing it, I asked what might have caused it and he suggested that if it was jacked up without using the right jacking point it could cause it.

Two days before I saw the crack, I had the rear left wheel replaced and the car was jacked up under the sill. Putting 2 and 2 together made me wonder if this had caused it so just be careful how you jack your car up. I guess use the rear diff so the car doesn't twist at all. I've got Leda B on it but I don't know if that would make it any more susceptible?

BTW, if anyone's interested, the windscreen is green in a cool grey STi (Autoglass said imports could be blue or green but mine was green).

 

I think your lying,

bet it was a stone, thrown up from
a supra twin turbo you were desparately
trying to follow ..... ?

"Thrustin"

 

Au contraire....

It definitely wasn't a stone although on the other hand I spose it could have been a Supra I was following as they are so pig ugly that it could have caused my beautiful STi's screen to crack...

 

ROTF

 

Richard.

Is your's a Type R?
They have thinner glass and i wondered if this could add to the problem.

Neil.

 

nice comeback Rich although... I feel its a bit harsh on the pigs

Stupot

 

Yeah it is a type R. I'd never heard of the thinner glass thing before. So they have thinner front screens? What's the point of that then? I guess the weight saved could shave a few vital nanoseconds off the 0-60...

 

You'd be surprised just how heavy glass is!!

If the front & rear screens were thinner, that would be quite a substantial weight saving....

Have you ever picked up a windscreen - they are pretty damn heavy.. Or am I just weak??

 

Lotus "Elsie" Screens are made of thinner glass too, and seem prone to chipping.

Probably more of a case for it on any go-kart type car though.

Paul L

 

Well you learn something every day.

Dr Hu, I would suggest that you may well be weak (if you're one of those Supra chappies on here) cos they're so puny they don't have the strength to change gear manually.

Course, if you've got a Scoob then I'd never dare suggest such a thing as every one knows how big and hard you have to be to handle such a "manly" car....

(Please don't feel obliged to reply, Supra owners )

 

oops

[This message has been edited by Richard F (edited 02-03-2000).]

 

Richard,

Jacking can cause this - it happened to my windscreen when my Subaru dealer jacked it up on the ramps! The bodyshell distortion can crack it, although almost certainly there would have been a "seed" crack or imperfection in the glass already. They then fitted the wrong colour screen, before finally getting it right.

 

Richard - Ba5tard - !

 

How **DARE** you even doubt my Impreza owning abilities.............

Dr Hu
99my UK Turbo 5Dr

 

Richard F if you think a supra is
pig ugly and a scooby is pretty,

id FUC*IN HATE TO SEE YOUR PIG UGLY BIRD !!!

try buying some new glasses !!!