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Originally Posted by KTM251ss
Last August on my drivers side windshield I found a small crack in the lower left corner, it's still there but not any larger after almost a year. This weekend I noticed another one forming on the same drivers side windshield at the top, this one about 3-4 inches long. Pretty sure it happened when i went over some rough spots in the road.
I had figured that the first one would get worse but it has not, even trough a very cold winter. So now I have another one.
I was wondering will I have leakage problems if they don't get any larger?
I've read that these split windshields from Winnebago have problems so what is the cost to fix it? Will a normal car windshield company do it and is there anything else needed to be done so it won't crack again that I can ask them to do?
I have a 2008 Winnebago Vista 33T
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KTM,
Well, the very short answer is, yes, it (the crack) CAN be treated. Repaired, no but, treated, yes. I had a chip in my lower, passenger side windshield. I procrastinated fixing it. Well, that cost me. I was about to get ready to replace that side windshield when, a fellow member on here said, "get it fixed" (the crack, that is). So, I looked them up in the yellow pages and low and behold, I found the "Crack Doctor". How about that for a name in the yellow pages.
Anyway, that chip, had turned into a 13" crack and, I asked him about doing anything about it. His reply, "Yep, we can stop the crack and guaranty it not to creep any farther". So, I told him to come up to the house and do his magic. He worked on it for about an hour. He ended up stop-drilling it in three different spots. Then, he filled it as he worked.
That crack, happened about two years ago and, it's still the same length it was when he repaired/treated it. And, the really good part, you really could see it prior to his repair but, now, you really have to look hard to see it. I forget it's even there.
As for insurance, It always cracks me up when people say, "your insurance will take care of it". Yeah sure it will. The thing is, there's only about a zillion different policy writings out there. What one person has in his or her state or, county/zip code, and how he/she set it up when the policy was written, can be considerably different than a person in another state. So, before getting all excited about thinking your insurance will cover it, I'd make a call to them and see what YOUR policy will do for you and, what, if any, will be any ramifications if you turn in a claim.
Every glass man I've ever talked with about RV windshield says to keep your stock windshield as long as possible. That is, if you get chips, small cracks that can be treated, then do it but, keep that stock one as long as you can. Most good glass men will say that the replacement is not a good as the stock one. Hope this helps some. Good luck.
Scott
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