Sorry to hear about the accident.  Glad you appear to have recovered.  
That's not the best way to take care of a cracked windshield, that's for
sure!  We pay the extra on our insurance for full glass, and a call to our
insurance agent (State Farm) initiates the process and then the glass people
can come out to your car and do the procedure there (like in the parking lot
at work, even) or you can take the car to the glass shop.  It doesn't take
long and it sure beats watching that crack grow!  They even covered one of
our rear side windows when some idiot etched his "signature" into the glass.  
We had an older Trooper (1990 model) that had flat front windows that were
pretty close to vertical and rocks dinged that window a bunch of times - I
think I went through about 4 windshields on that car with a stretch of 2
replacements in only a couple months once.  Our new Trooper has a more sloped
windshield and I think it is less susceptible to rocks since the rock should
get caught in the airflow and be deflected a little bit and either hit the
window at a more glancing blow or miss it all together compared to the old
near verticle windows.....

Jim.

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, HighwayHavoc wrote:

> Has anyone had to deal with replacing a cracked
> windshield? My itty-bitty little GEO Metro must have
> been sleeping on the road about a year ago when a semi
> kicked a rock up at us. The car didn’t duck and paid
> for it by getting nicked right in the windshield. As
> the year wore on, that little nick became a crack that
> zigzagged down the entire window from top to bottom.
> Many a time I’ve mentioned to my wife that I really
> oughtta get that window replaced, but then someone
> else took care of it for me.
> 
> A week ago I entered an intersection to make a left
> turn when a Jeep Cherokee ran his red light and popped
> my little GEO right smack on the driver’s side of the
> vehicle (where I had undoubtedly been sitting
> serenely, whistling the tune to Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah). My
> car was totaled, thus taking care of my windshield
> predicament. What a relief not to have to worry about
> that any more! Of course there was the concussion,
> gashed head, busted ribs and other assorted dings and
> bangs that I’ve had to deal with since that day, but
> no more windshield!
> 
> If you ask my kids about the incident, they will
> probably tell you that the worst part of the whole
> tragedy was the fact that I got to ride in an
> ambulance (complete with wailing sirens) to the
> hospital, but I don’t even remember it. In fact, the
> entire day has been wiped clean from my memory chips.
> The best part of the incident, the kids could tell
> you, was when I was sitting at home asking questions
> about what happened. I would receive the answers, but
> then I’d ask the same questions about 5-10 minutes
> later. It became somewhat of a routine that the kids
> got a kick out of.
> 
> Mark A. Pedersen
> 
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