Broken Dreams

[UncleBrad]

Stop following people closely. Stop riding next to or behind tractor trailers or any trailer. It’s an upright flat windshield, things happen. Got a star on mine the second week but fixed it with the rain x windshield repair kit. Still good a year later

Well-said. Anybody that has driven vehicles like this should know the price to pay for an essentially vertical windshield subjected to both on and off-road hazards. In the past 25 years, I've probably had six windshields replaced on my Wranglers. These vehicles are taller, with a flatish, upright windshield - often meaning that it will catch rocks due to the increased capture area.

An upright A-pillar part of the design philosophy of vehicles like the Wrangler and the Bronco. It's unarguably attractive, but the pluses are that it introduces less distortion while increasing overall visibility for the driver in less-than-ideal circumstances. Jeep enthusiasts learn from experience. We will too.

Hints: if you see a "chip and seal ahead" sign ahead, find another route. Keeping your distance from other vehicles where possible - especially gravel trucks - is smart. Because of your height and your windshield angle, you NEED to be farther back. It's safer anyway.

Be part of the solution: put proper mud flaps on your Bronco in consideration of the guy in back of you.

Life deals us blows, man.

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[Mako]

I should have taken all of the reports regarding the cheap ass windshields Ford uses for the Bronco seriously. My Big Bend has 2 major cracks from debris while driving on highway home. What a waste of money this purchase was. Less than 5,000 miles. My advise, DO NOT buy a Bronco unless you own a glass company.

Not the "cheap-a$$ windshield" it is the hazard of driving a vehicle with the aerodynamics of a shoebox . It is the same for jeeps and other off-road vehicles. I hear that the film that is available is worth the cost . It sucks that is cracked , but is the price that you pay for our poor mileage.

 

[totaljustice]

People shouldn't automatically assume that everyone is following too closely. My Black Diamond was 4 days old and I took a rock thrown from a tractor trailer coming the opposite direction. Crack went right across the bottom.

 

[Darren D]

I drove 5500 miles across country and back, did Moab trails for a week and the only chip I have in my windshield after 17K+ miles was from the winter right before that trip last spring.

 

[MadMan4BamaNATL]

The Ford glass is utter garbage, accept this as fact. Get the aeroskin, and either a Pilkington or FYB windshield and just don't worry about it.

I'm a late November '21 delivery and am on my eighth windshield. Get thee over thineself.

You! You're just a damn tailgater HotdogThud! There, I said it!

8 is a lot bud. I got windshield coverage and not a scratch yet. Even haggled the cost of it at the dealership, but haven't used in over 2 years, so somehow I still got hosed.

OP is sore that he doesn't look at tough as he wanted with a cracked windshield. Ohh well, back to the minivan I guess....

 

[HotdogThud]

You! You're just a damn tailgater HotdogThud! There, I said it!

8 is a lot bud. I got windshield coverage and not a scratch yet. Even haggled the cost of it at the dealership, but haven't used in over 2 years, so somehow I still got hosed.

OP is sore that he doesn't look at tough as he wanted with a cracked windshield. Ohh well, back to the minivan I guess....

hahah, nope, sadly, every freeway between home and work has been under construction for the last 3 years. pretty much constant stream of gravel trucks, concrete trucks and dirt haulers on the roads during the wee hours of my commute. And every one of them seems to be on the CDL version of a learner's permit, constantly hanging a couple tires onto the shoulder for the fun of it.

 

[Imaginary Friend]

This thread cracks me up. Pun intended.

Back when I DD'd my various previous Wranglers, a new windshield was an annual event, if not sooner.

 

[White Zombie]

Seriously, bitching about a cracked windshield as a design flaw and cheap ass glass!! Come on!! At least it didn't hit you in the head which might have helped, it sounds like. You're going to act like you've never had a rock hit your vehicle before and chip/crack a windshield before and your blaming the manufacturer. That like buying toilet paper and while wiping your ass, the paper tears and you stick your finger in your ass and you blame the paper manufacturer because of what you did!

 

[nx40yrs]

I should have taken all of the reports regarding the cheap ass windshields Ford uses for the Bronco seriously. My Big Bend has 2 major cracks from debris while driving on highway home. What a waste of money this purchase was. Less than 5,000 miles. My advise, DO NOT buy a Bronco unless you own a glass company.

Sorry to hear about your windshield. Not sure that is the only way to value a Bronco. I have 19k both pavement and off road trails still have the factory windshied with no damage.

 

[Mako]

You! You're just a damn tailgater HotdogThud! There, I said it!

8 is a lot bud. I got windshield coverage and not a scratch yet. Even haggled the cost of it at the dealership, but haven't used in over 2 years, so somehow I still got hosed.

OP is sore that he doesn't look at tough as he wanted with a cracked windshield. Ohh well, back to the minivan I guess....

the windshield coverage installs a clear screen protector that evidently works wells.

 

[chtucker]

All but one of our vehicles go through windshields..

Grenadier windshield is $2300 plus the tint we had on it. Lasted 't miles when someone decided to cross the exit lane white markings to get off the highway late and kicked up rocks.

FJ Cruiser we have had 4-5 windshields in over 19 years
Bronco hasn't needed a windshield at 25k miles

 

[zoober]

Were you in Tennessee?
I'm still throwing rocks 500 miles later after my trip to Parson Branch rd.

 

[Nate Train]

I should have taken all of the reports regarding the cheap ass windshields Ford uses for the Bronco seriously. My Big Bend has 2 major cracks from debris while driving on highway home. What a waste of money this purchase was. Less than 5,000 miles. My advise, DO NOT buy a Bronco unless you own a glass company.

Haven't had to replace one yet at 16k.

 

[Zero Options]

Driving up here in the NE, I just consider windshields a consumable like tires. 1 BMW windshield, 1 Subaru windshield, and 1 or 2 F150 windshields (I can’t even remember) so far. Bronco good; for now anyway.

 

[jwysopal]

68k miles on mine, daily driven on highways, around 50-60 miles per day. I've had zero cracks, zero replacements needed, just one small chip from a pretty big rock.

So for you, they are cheaply made and break easy, for me they are standard strong automotive glass and very durable.

That's my real world Bronco experience.

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