Windscreen prone to chips/cracks

[Optimus]

Hi all,

i do a lot of motorway mileage in my A6 and covered combined between current and previous A6 around 50k miles.

one thing that screams out to me is how unlucky I am with stones and debris hitting the windscreen. My previous A6 C8 I had a new windscreen due to a chip manifesting into a crack on impact and the screen being replaced.

My current has had 2 chips one repaired but seems to be cracking and the 2nd chip centrally in the screen crack on impact.

Is it the angle of the windscreen prone to slight impact damage or is it the way in which they are made they just seem to have barely any resilience to impact damage.

for comparison my 20212 VW Passat had well over a 100k miles and never had to replace the windscreen for cracks and I had probably around 4 stones lobbed that left damaged (the sound was like being shot at) and 3 that skimmed and left only a small dent in the glass.

I've drawn conclusions that its either;

- design (elevation of glass)
- product quality (poor lamination?)

- bad luck?

For sanity reasons I’m just curious what others have experienced in all my cars I’ve owned I’ve only ever had to replace 5 windscreens and 2 of those are for this model of vehicle.

 

 

 

[Sid2020]

I fit a lot of Windscreens due to crash damage or passenger airbags deploying and breaking them. The glass layers on a windscreen have become a lot thinner over the years relying on the strength of the Perspex core. 

[Optimus]

expensive car cheap windscreen - sounds about right