Are Clio Windscreens Particulary Weak?

[skinner]

I am going to be getting my 5th screen in 3 years. Every stone that hits it causes a crack.

 

[Cookie]

I've got 5 chips in my screen and it's still going strong

Once I get one that's in my eyeline I'll get it changed

 

[LeeP86]

i just had mine don 50quid on insurance

 

[Davey C]

I am going to be getting my 5th screen in 3 years. Every stone that hits it causes a crack.

I was beginning to wonder that myself.
Had my last car for over 3 years and never once had a chip in the windscreen.

Got the clio in November and i've had four.

Strange.

 

[Beef-Mc]

I'm sure I got one the other day, not been bothered to check though...

 

[guysy]

Ive got two, aint cracked yet though.

 

[Tim172]

Only the 172 cup has a thinner (and possibly weaker) screen, I've thought the one on my ph1 has been pretty tough. Rear one just shattered by itself though

 

[DrR]

As far as i can tell mines on it's original screen and it's 7 years old and 70k

 

[TomTom]

Mine didn't crack when it wore a pigeon at 80mph.

 

[Fletcher]

My mk2 172 is now on over 85,000, and still on on the factory fitted windscreen.

 

[BSC 182]

Im gettin a new windscreen 2moro thanks to a pheasant

 

[john.med]

Original screen 6 years and 80k in. Would love a new screen though, the thing has a few stone chips here and there and never quite looks 100% clean. I think the screen is more likely to get chipped due to the design of the car. Cars I've had with longer/higher bonnets have seen higher mileages with less damage.

I'd be tempted to smash it and pay £50 on the insurance, but I know they'd bugger up the gel pack thing.

 

[skinner]

It's probably the shitty ones Autoglass use. It had an original when I got it, which must have lasted 3 years.

 

[Fletcher]

Original screen 6 years and 80k in. Would love a new screen though, the thing has a few stone chips here and there and never quite looks 100% clean. I think the screen is more likely to get chipped due to the design of the car. Cars I've had with longer/higher bonnets have seen higher mileages with less damage.

I'd be tempted to smash it and pay £50 on the insurance, but I know they'd bugger up the gel pack thing.

I'm in the same boot mate, i have quite a lot of stone chips, and a new screen would look better. I just don't want to risk buggering up the gel pack/s

 

[Nigel]

No chips in mine had a 172/182 for the last 3 years.

 

[stu182]

Original screen 6 years and 80k in. Would love a new screen though, the thing has a few stone chips here and there and never quite looks 100% clean. I think the screen is more likely to get chipped due to the design of the car. Cars I've had with longer/higher bonnets have seen higher mileages with less damage.

I'd be tempted to smash it and pay £50 on the insurance, but I know they'd bugger up the gel pack thing.

Sure when I had mine done about 4 months ago my excess was up to 60 squid. Might be wrong though...!

Had to get screen replaced twice in 3 yrs / 49k miles in my 182 btw. Agree that it seemed to get hit much more often than other cars I've owned, and I'm definitely not a tailgating pr*ck!

 

[dandycaptain]

I've had umpteen bricks (*disclaimer: not really bricks, just pretty big stones off the road) hit my screen in the 4 months I've owned it, and it hasn't cracked yet. Thought it'd gone the other day though, the noise was so loud when the rock hit!

 

[Spark]

where have u lot beein driving, behind a gritter shooting out bricks at 90mph

 

[dandycaptain]

where have u lot beein driving, behind a gritter shooting out bricks at 90mph

Actually, now you come to mention it...

 

[Reyes]

I poured hot water on mine when it froze over, ive had chavs throw lager at my windows and stones.. not a crack in em..

 

[Hazza]

Yea i wonder this too.

Only had my new windscreen put in through insurance for £70, as i had a massive crack on it, from a previous stone chip that i didn't pay any attention to.

1 week later after the new windscreen was put on, a stone hit it, and chipped it, right in front of my vision aswell, bang on Very annoying to look @ each time i drive

 

[gilly123]

I have a dci on a 51 with 100k and its on the origional screen! looks a little tired now but no cracks.
BTW whats a gel pack??

 

[R20 CWH]

mine got a tiny hit with a stone and it ended up needing replaced, though it was the sun that I believe made it worse due to the shrinking and expanding done with the hot and cold weather.

Was a crappy wee stone that did it though!

To show how pisch they are my last car - corsa got a boulder in it on the M8, it had left a haulage lorries rear and it never cracked or anything.