Reckon its possible...

Sep 04, 2004 9 Replies

...that if you had your suspension set a bit too low and a bit too hard you might cause the windscreen to crack?


-- Chet

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Probably yea, the shock has to go somewhere.

Pics :) ?

Pics of a cracked windscreen? Are you really that bored?

-- Chet

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if your suspension is too hard you will also start pulling the welds out of the panels the shock has to go somewhere to be absorbed

Ever seen a car with a screen that's de-laminating? Same effect only slower and car needs no mods to achive. Car body is s*it in torsion. Modern cars with bonded in screens are quite dependant on the screen to give decent torsional strength. Many are excessively dependant and sometime around 100K on the screen gives up and starts to de-laminate.

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Well its not *that* hard...i don't think..

-- Chet

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This has happened after about 1500 miles :) Altho it didn't happen while driving, it cracked while lyin up for 2 weeks

-- Chet

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HF Integrale 16v - Gettin there!1993 Renault 19 16v - Subtle extras like a T3 ;)1998 Audi A4 - I don't know why, but i did.

so is it possible it had a stonechip that the current climate helped turn into a crack?

is it possible something knocked it and cracked it (the screen)

is it on the inside or outside layer of glass?

Lost

Well it was parked inside and starts too low to have been a chip

It starts below the panel that covers the bottom of the screen/wipers etc so no

I can see it from inside and outside :)

-- Chet

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