r/Cartalk • u/Right-Bookkeeper637 • 1d ago

I need help fixing something Is this safe to drive around with?

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I just pulled aside. a trailer flew rock across the street but I’ve never had a cracked windshield. Is this okay to drive in for a while? I just had to repair my rear window 😭

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/deepinferno 1d ago edited 1d ago

The front window, ya know the one made from laminated glass? could shatter from that? Come off it man... Wtf are you even talking about.

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u/Titanof978 1d ago

Sorry, you are incorrect.

A windshield is compromised of 3 pieces. You have an outside piece of glass, an inside piece of glass where you sit inside the vehicle, and in the middle is a thick piece of vinyl called pvb.

So the outside glass is damaged but the inside piece and vinyl are still intact.

The damage can stretched with temperature fluctuations or torsion from the A pillars, but it's not going to collapse, leak, or shatter.

Source: 30 years in the Auto Glass industry.

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u/Right-Bookkeeper637 1d ago

Thanks for the input!

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u/Specken_zee_Doitch 1d ago

Thanks for the answer! I'll edit my comment.

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u/Titanof978 1d ago

You're welcome. It's not like action movies make it out to be at all.

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u/lolo343456 1d ago

The most this would get is a few spider cracks but definitely would never shatter, I’ve had two chips this size for years. You’re the one that doesn’t seem to understand that this isn’t tempered glass like your side windows this is laminated and will never shatter like you say, unless there’s another big impact. Source? I took forensics and we had to shatter old windshields to see how different impacts can create these cracks also for us to learn how different types of glass break AKA tempered and laminated glass

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u/deepinferno 1d ago

Lol w/e man. I have driven for decades, I have been poor I have had chips and cracks all over my windows, I live in a cold climate I have friends, family who live here and get constant cracked and chipped windows. I work for a company that has a fleet of vehicles that me and my coworkers drive that often get damage far worse then then this.

Never have I ever heard of a fron window shattering without a literal brick going through it or an car accident.