Grrrrrr..........

In Alabama your windshield is not covered under you insurance so you get to pay the entire cost of replacement.

Why is this?

Steve

Having a two windshields replaced today in fact(Vermont). One was parked too close to the road and town plow through a rock. The other had 5 stars in it from driving it daily this winter(84 mile round trip commute).
Got my first every new car two years ago. I've always made do with old diamonds in the rough. Less than 3 days in the driveway, and sister in law scraped it's bumper.

Living in New England, with big temperature differences between the inside and outside of the vehicle during the winter and plow trucks with sanders that toss stones occasionally, I have somewhat resigned myself to the idea that windshields are wear items on my cars. I think I've averaged maybe one every two or three years, though I haven't kept close track.

None for the motorhome, at least not yet, but I don't generally drive it during the winter.

I have replaced the windshield on our 08 Honda Odyssey 5 times since we purchased the van new in 09. It now has a crack, again, from a rock. In Alabama your windshield is not covered under you insurance so you get to pay the entire cost of replacement. Over $1800 so far.

We got three windshields in one year once upon a time. Stuff happens!

Had Class A for 6 weeks, getting ready to go out on a trip, crack in windshield, lower left hand corner. Call insurance, call glass company.
Get all approved, glass company comes to site, takes out full, 1 piece windshield, installs new windshield. Take trip. Coming back, rock hits and chips it. Make it back and noticed a 1/2 white circle at bottom. Call company, they come out and inspect it. Defective windshield, moisture in it, chipped place not a problem with a defective windshield OK, order another new windshield.

Come out with new, full windshield, take defective one out, get new windshield out of van, it cracked into several pieces. They reinstalled defective windshield.

Get another new one, I drive to shop and they installed it there. What an ordeal.

Never had to deal with once cracked windshield, much less the rest of the story.

Hope it gets taken care of quickly and without any problems. Sorry for your problems. Hopefully that will end the windshield saga for you.

I totally understand.

Two years ago, I bought a 2009 F150. Within 6 weeks, we had to replace the windshield as a beet thrown from a farm truck smacked the windshield. HARD. The "fix" resulted in a obvious part in the windshield in my line of vision. Lucky I carry full glass coverage.

This year: Bought a 2018 Jeep (wife's car). Driving home from a hospital visit, a slow moving truck tossed a stone in the middle of the windshield. the Jeep was less than a month old and less than 800 miles on it. Crack spread within a day.

That's my darn luck!

Returning to S Cal from Seattle and bang, chipped windshield and the interesting part is there were no other vehicles around.
When the installer removed the windshield we discovered where that annoying leak was coming from, there was a gap in the sealant from the factory. Under windy and heavy rain conditions I would get a half dozen drops running down the inside. Learned that there is a difference in glass be it F-450 or E-450.

Just got a chip in our windshield last weekend. Been driving 30 years. All of my chipped windshields have been on interstates in Montgomery Alabama. Lived there for about 5 years 10 years ago. Had to go there again last weekend - bam - chipped windshield.

You'll have a blast on an Alaskan trip, and hey, maybe throw in a run on the Dempster while your up north.

Sorry for the hassel, but imagine what that new hit may have done if you still had the old, weakened, damaged windshield in place. It could have been a lot worse.