Unbelievable. My truck will be 7 weeks old tomorrow. I've got just over 4,000 miles on it. Tuesday I picked up my second rock collision resulting into a big broken area and 2 runs immediately began. Thankfully this damage is at the top corner on the passenger side and the runs haven't gotten into my line of sight yet.
First windshield was trashed at 2,000 miles from a very minor rock peck that ran immediately from just above the driver windshield wiper straight up and towards the middle of the truck. Now this. Averaging a broken windshield every 2000 miles is rather concerning. Not sure if it is the taller height of the trucks, the angle of the windshields or what. For comparisons my old Chevy stayed with me for 13 years and just under 165k. I had to replace the windshield in it one time. First incident was meeting an 18 wheeler on two lane road just as he passed where a gravel road entered the highway. Rock came off his log trailer. This last one came off a concrete truck as he passed over an expansion joint 2 lanes over from me on the freeway. All kinds of rocks fell out and began bouncing their way to me. Amazing that a rock could travel that far and still be that high in the air to make the impact where it did.
A new windshield is $250 so it isn't terrible but I sure hope I'm not looking at dropping that every 2,000 miles....

 

Just really bad luck, I suppose. I have a 14 yr old Chevy truck 184k with all original glass. I had another one that a rock hit and broke the first week I owned it.

 

Just hit 15k miles and my windshield still looks brand new. Sounds like you need to buy a lottery ticket with that luck of yours.

 

Are you buying the aftermarket windshield for that price and does it have the acoustic interlayer? I'm curious if they sufficiently keep the cab as quiet as the OEM with SoundScreen since I need to replace mine.

 

Sorry to hear that. Don't know where you live, but some areas are more prone to broken windshields than others. I lived in Southern California for 35 years. Never had a broken windshield. I've been in Colorado for 17 years and already have replaced a few windshields. Last year I was driving my 2006 F350 on the highway and twice within 30 minutes my windshield was broken with rocks.

 

Yeah that ones a doozy. I had to replace my windshield in under 2 weeks! Was at like 450 miles then. Got a small chip but came out from work the next day and it turned into a crack horizontally right through the middle of the windshield

 

 

Yes. The aftermarket manufacturer is the same as the oem manufacturer. One just had the Ford Logo stamped in the lower middle of the windshield. I can tell zero difference in mine and I've had each for as many miles. Lol.

 

I'm in Northern MS but I will tell you I have had more windshield breaks on my trips across the country it seems. Freeway traffic and expansion joints have a way of shaking loose mud, dirt and rocks from the backs of trailers where it gets sprayed across the roads. At that point you are just a victim of right place wrong time. We have lots of gravel roads around here and where they enter paved roads there is usually some gravel that gets washed out onto the road for traffic to pick up.
In one SUV I drove for work I had 17 breaks over a 3 year period and just never got it repaired. It was pointless. At that point in time we lived in Michigan and the roads were awful so road debris was constantly being strewn across the streets.

 

My luck keeps me laughing at lottery tickets. How anyone with my luck would ever at any point feel like they were doing anything but adding to the prize pot is beyond me.
Perfect example. Two weeks ago I took one of my good friends to a DU dinner where they were raffling off 3 shotguns. First gun I bought 5 tickets for $100. He bought one for $20. He got his ticket first and mine were the next 5. Yep that's right. He won the shotgun. Sometimes you can't even make this stuff up.

 

 

Were I live...


We have the "Great Freeway Dance"..Daily..

You will see everyone trying to avoid the construction trucks.. literally people driving on the berm to avoid the dump trucks with Mud/Rocks hanging off the mud flaps..open pickups /no tie downs/ tree branches all over the road from the landscape crews..

State law says ..you are required to have these types of loads covered..No one does..

Also a trend is the large 18 wheelers are now "riding: the passing lane...they many times move so quickly to the left lane that they go off road briefly then pull road trash onto the highway.. which kicks up..you many times see it bouncing two three car lengths..

I was driving in Akron... going up a long hill.. and a truck was loaded with 57's spilling on the freeway.. it looked like large BB's coming at you.. the traffic became the opening of the Indianapolis 500..cars trying to avoid being hit...

I ordered the factory Hood Deflector...as a small help...but the large front and the height is an issue

 

I drove a 2016 ram 1500 for 2 years before trading for my 2018 F250... I took some serious impacts on the RAM and not even a chip... Silverado before that drove it for 4 years on the same Houston freeways with just a few small chips.

On my 2018 F250 - Multiple chips in the first few k miles and needed a new windshield around 5k due to an impact which immediately caused a crack all the way across the windshield. Something is different. Could be the height/windshield angle/type of material, etc.

Based on how easy my 18's windshield smashed up, it's only a matter of time for my 2019... Luckily I LOVE everything else about the 19.

 

 

When my windshield broke the insurance form said their may need to be some calibration needed (cameras?) I contacted my dealer and they never called back. Is anyone needing anything calibrated after replacement.
One rock going through Kentucky started a nice long crack all across the passenger side view. At least it was on the way home after a nice trip across the country and back. 2017 F450 Lariat