Windshield shattered while cleaning

[Addamk1]

While cleaning the windshield with a brand new freshly washed microfiber cloth, the windshield spidered and shattered. Anyone else experience a weak windshield? This should be covered under warranty or a recall. Not happy at all.

 

[M0unt41nm4n]

That choice be warranty as long as their is no rock chip at the center of the spider web.

 

[TickTock]

That choice be warranty as long as their is no rock chip at the center of the spider web.

...and you did not tint it.

 

[Spacenoddle]

While cleaning the windshield with a brand new freshly washed microfiber cloth, the windshield spidered and shattered. Anyone else experience a weak windshield? This should be covered under warranty or a recall. Not happy at all.

Did you put your body weight on the windshield while trying to clean the middle section? I don't mean it should shatter even you lean on it, just trying to give us a idea how it happened.

 

[Addamk1]

...and you did not tint it.

No tint and no chip. You can’t even feel the cracks from the exterior

 

[Addamk1]

Did you put your body weight on the windshield while trying to clean the middle section? I don't mean it should shatter even you lean on it, just trying to give us a idea how it happened.

I was cleaning it from the inside. Just normal pressure for drying the glass. I don’t think I’m that strong. lol

 

[ChiTownCT]

Interesting... guess im never cleaning the windshield again

 

[Crissa]

While cleaning the windshield with a brand new freshly washed microfiber cloth, the windshield spidered and shattered. Anyone else experience a weak windshield? This should be covered under warranty or a recall. Not happy at all.

This isn't 'weak'. It spreads across it because it's so strong it's breaking itself.

The glass is made under pressure. It has multiple layers, and a microscopic flaw will make it fail later. What you were doing at the time would be irrelevant.

-Crissa

 

[Addamk1]

This isn't 'weak'. It spreads across it because it's so strong it's breaking itself.

The glass is made under pressure. It has multiple layers, and a microscopic flaw will make it fail later. What you were doing at the time would be irrelevant.

-Crissa

The windshield has been hazy since day one. Very hard to keep clean. In sunlight it had almost a crystal like finish. Wondering if this was a sign of improper tempering.

 

[BlueLightning]

It’s the CT Elon?/Franz? Curse!

 

[smg]

Was it hot and sunny? I noticed that the CT windshields do not have the halftone pattern (dots) on the edges of the frit. I wonder if they may be more susceptible to damage from expansion/contracting than a normal windshield with the dot pattern that is meant to distribute the heat into a gradient.

 

[bongulous]

That’s scary… I got a couple interior scratches on my windshield since delivery. Hope it won’t fail in the future. Have a service appointment coming up so I hope it’s addressed.

 

[Addamk1]

It’s the CT Elon?/Franz? Curse!

Now I don’t have to buy the window decal. lol

 

[Art138]

No tint and no chip. You can’t even feel the cracks from the exterior

Do you have an early vin? Just wondering if this is happening with late vins too.

 

[Addamk1]

Do you have an early vin? Just wondering if this is happening with late vins too.

I placed my order on 8/5 and took delivery on 8/13. So I don’t believe it’s an early VIN