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Title: stone chips in windshield
Post by: Bill Harris on August 12, 2003, 08:01:27 am
Yahoo Message Number: 5794 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/5794)
I just rolled over 17,000 miles on our 03 Allure, and I now have a total of 5 stone chips on the windshields.
Am I just lucky, or is this par for the course? Seems like the smallest stone leaves a chip. We got two just yesterday, one stone large enough that it totaled the driver side windshield.

That one was large enough that I could see it coming at us, like the cannonball in the movie Patriot.

But the second was so small that you could hardly hear it hit, but it also left a chip.
Just wondering...

Bill Harris
03 Allure 30912
Title: Re: stone chips in windshield
Post by: David & Karen on August 13, 2003, 11:19:39 am
Yahoo Message Number: 5799 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/5799)
Title: Re: stone chips in windshield
Post by: Gdbettig@aol Com on August 13, 2003, 11:28:35 am
Yahoo Message Number: 5800 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/5800)
Bill,

They have stone fix kits nyou can buy from an auto parts supply, that you can use for a temp repair so the chip or crack will not spread.
Gary Intrigue 11451
Title: Re: stone chips in windshield
Post by: Dick Campagna on August 13, 2003, 11:39:57 am
Yahoo Message Number: 5801 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/5801)
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>wmhar48116@... (wmhar48116@...) writes: > > 5 stone chips on the windshields.
> Bill, At last years reunion in Eugene there was a mobile windshield > repair technician driving up and down the rows of coaches looking for

business.

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I didn't need him but several people had chips fixed during the rally.
I hear that water getting into the chips creates a problem for the windshield repairers, so it's a good idea to put a piece of Scotch tape or the like over each chip 'til it's repaired.
I also understand that the chip repair is so effective that it's covered by your insurance policy. I guess they figure it's either $ repair or $$$ replacement.

Dick (& Geri) Campagna
Intrigue #10571
Title: Re: stone chips in windshield
Post by: Walt Rothermel_01 on August 13, 2003, 02:26:56 pm
Yahoo Message Number: 5802 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/5802)
Dick, you better check with your insurance co as to whether chip repair is covered. I believe it's going to depend on how high is your comprehensive deductible as compared to cost of a windshield.

Walt Rothermel
03Allure30811
Title: Re: stone chips, who's counting
Post by: Bill Harris on August 14, 2003, 08:43:37 am
Yahoo Message Number: 5805 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/5805)
Thanks for the replys, everyone. I have called Holland Motors in Mich, they have ordered a new driver's windshield for me, will have it installed when I get back to Mich from Prescott, Az. They will fill the chips in the pass. side also.
I suppose by the time I get out to Eugene for the rally, I will need the services of the roving chip fixers.
I was curious if others felt the glass was easy to chip. Seems so to me, the smallest little thing seems to chip it. I got 3 in the driver side glass on this trip to Az. The last one looks like it was hit with a baseball bat.

Bill Harris
03 Allure 30912