wsbca
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Hopefully just bad luck on our part, but there was no discernible impact, no obvious source (truck or whatever) nearby, just a series of cracking sounds - since there are so few cars out there I'm posting this now in case there ends up being some endemic problem like the early Honda Elements had with a self-cracking windshield. I wouldn't think there would be, that's not a particularly unique aspect of the vehicle, but who knows.
The crack is horizontal, about 1/3 of the way down on the driver's side. There are two visible...aspects? to the crack that could be construed as possible debris impact points, but they are not craters, and don't really look like rock hits, more like places where the crack turned. The windshield is so sloped I would have thought that a rock hit would be less likely to do damage...and, there was no loud hit, just a series of about 4 identical crackling sounds a few seconds apart as the crack grew - the crack goes all the way out under the weatherstripping and about 6-8 inches horizontally into the windshield. The two points that one might claim look like impact are about 1 inch in from the rubber...I do find it odd that there are two such points along the crack, to me that points away from a single rock impact.
Anyway...we're going to be out our deductible for sure, unless Nissan is already aware of some issue. The bummer is I doubt replacements are readily available yet (unless it really is a Versa windshield, which I don't think it is) - I doubt there will be any option other than OEM from Nissan (which is all I'd really want anyway I think), so it could be quite some time before we can get it fixed.
The crack is horizontal, about 1/3 of the way down on the driver's side. There are two visible...aspects? to the crack that could be construed as possible debris impact points, but they are not craters, and don't really look like rock hits, more like places where the crack turned. The windshield is so sloped I would have thought that a rock hit would be less likely to do damage...and, there was no loud hit, just a series of about 4 identical crackling sounds a few seconds apart as the crack grew - the crack goes all the way out under the weatherstripping and about 6-8 inches horizontally into the windshield. The two points that one might claim look like impact are about 1 inch in from the rubber...I do find it odd that there are two such points along the crack, to me that points away from a single rock impact.
Anyway...we're going to be out our deductible for sure, unless Nissan is already aware of some issue. The bummer is I doubt replacements are readily available yet (unless it really is a Versa windshield, which I don't think it is) - I doubt there will be any option other than OEM from Nissan (which is all I'd really want anyway I think), so it could be quite some time before we can get it fixed.