Nope, not a myth of mine, I prefer facts
Windscreen cracked 😞
Today, while I was in motorway suddenly a crack appeared in my windscreen. I don't know what to do. Never faced any issue like this previously. Looks like a quality issue for me. What should I do now?
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I will ammend! 😁 😁
It's clearly mentioned in the website with no * Terms and conditions attached. So hopefully it doesn't. I had a go through the posts in FB group and there is so much windscreen cracks reported. Today I noticed I've got a paint chip in my bumper! 😑
Come on, you must be old enough by now to understand what profit based private companies tell you isn't always the truth..
Someone has to pay the £1500 for your windscreen, it's not free from the magical windscreen fairies
Stone chips will become a fact of life with these cars (well any car but worse on these), my front bumper is now battered and it's only 1200 miles in! It's remarkable just how bad it is. Now you have a chip, you can see how thin the paint is.
My bodyshop remarked that the price of the paint is so expensive, the only way Mazda can do it for the £700 nominal fee is basically apply as little as possible. This also shows in the door shuts, inside boot etc not being painted with the pearl. I've just spent £600 on having a tiny graze repaired.
I WISH I had PPF'd the front end now I know how thin the paint is. It's going to cost more in repaints than it would have done just to have the film applied. Lesson definitely learnt.
I know, but I am hopeful they won't. They charge us £2600 per year for insurance and for this glass replacement it's £115 excess payment. It seems our 7 year NCD isn't activated to this car, as we got another insurance on another car. Again hopefully the claim won't affect that then. And thinking of doing PPF.Come on, you must be old enough by now to understand what profit based private companies tell you isn't always the truth..
Someone has to pay the £1500 for your windscreen, it's not free from the magical windscreen fairies
Stone chips will become a fact of life with these cars (well any car but worse on these), my front bumper is now battered and it's only 1200 miles in! It's remarkable just how bad it is. Now you have a chip, you can see how thin the paint is.
My bodyshop remarked that the price of the paint is so expensive, the only way Mazda can do it for the £700 nominal fee is basically apply as little as possible. This also shows in the door shuts, inside boot etc not being painted with the pearl. I've just spent £600 on having a tiny graze repaired.
I WISH I had PPF'd the front end now I know how thin the paint is. It's going to cost more in repaints than it would have done just to have the film applied. Lesson definitely learnt.
If that were true, all TRULY hard (a.k.a. sporty) suspension cars' windshields wouldn't survive a drive home from the dealership
Not to mention the quite common user modifications to suspension, to lower the car and make it more sporty - I have been in cars where I could feel each of my teeth rattle in resonance with the road surface structure, and yet the windshield was quite fine, thank you.
Why? Would those manufacturers not use thicker glass than the cheap thin stuff Mazda use?If that were true, all TRULY hard (a.k.a. sporty) suspension cars' windshields wouldn't survive a drive home from the dealership
And yes, when lowering vehicles especially on older cars on overly firm suspension like cheap Aliexpress coilovers, this can result in cracked windscreens, seen it happen quite a lot.
Your argument is merely commenting on windscreen quality and a different chassis/structural system, so dosent make much sense to me as an arguement for the already known issue of windscreens cracking on the CX60.
But if you want to go with poor quality screens causing it, then yes you may have an alternative point. Either way, it dosent look good for Mazda.
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