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Joined: 08-03-2008
Posts: 890
From: San Diego
I got 2 snowflakes on my way home from OKC, after driving fine all the way from San Diego to Dallas, to OKC, to NW OK, then on the 2nd leg of my trip home, IN CA!, I got 2 big ass rocks from a semi. I couldn't seem to get away from him, and I can't imagine what the Prius that ended up behind it for a stretch looked like by the time he got away!
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Joined: 01-13-2008
Posts: 4,708
From: Washington State, where it rains
Must be epidemic..yesterday I got nailed just above the wiper...salt trucks were out and some of the so called salt was more like gravel..had a SUV kick it up. Ugly sound..now both my HHR;s are rocked..the other one was repaired..guess this one will too..when it gets warm enough.
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Joined: 06-12-2008
Posts: 113
From: Lincoln, RI
Not sure if there are different grades of Glass But I already have large 2 chips and many other dings. I feel like the glass of the HHR is softer than other cars I have own. The New England winters are tough but the Windshield is damaging alot faster from smaller salt/stones. I wish spring would get here fast I'd like to still have a new looking car when nice weather returns 
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Joined: 07-03-2008
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From: jerSSey, exit 5
Not sure if there are different grades of Glass But I already have large 2 chips and many other dings. I feel like the glass of the HHR is softer than other cars I have own. The New England winters are tough but the Windshield is damaging alot faster from smaller salt/stones. I wish spring would get here fast I'd like to still have a new looking car when nice weather returns .
.Interesting you mention that, because the sound of the rock hitting the windshield was not as loud and as startling as some I've had in the past with other vehicles. I was not really expecting too much damamge based on the sound of the hit, but it sure did a lot of damage. Like you said, I think this was just a stone associated with salting the roads because there were no trucks in the vicinity and no other vehicles close to me at the time.
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Joined: 05-05-2008
Posts: 128
From: tampa
yeah same thing happened to my moms car, called the insurance, they asked if we were at the same address, then they called back said someone would be there tomorrow morning to fix it. They even brought free steak
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Joined: 11-20-2006
Posts: 931
From: Peoria, IL
So far my HHR's have avoided windshield damage, but in the past I've had terrible luck with windshields. This includes having an electrical transformer explode as I drove under it with my old Accord. The molten transformer parts melted portions of the windshield and windows. All had to be replaced.
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Joined: 06-12-2008
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From: Lincoln, RI
Interesting you mention that, because the sound of the rock hitting the windshield was not as loud and as startling as some I've had in the past with other vehicles. I was not really expecting too much damamge based on the sound of the hit, but it sure did a lot of damage. Like you said, I think this was just a stone associated with salting the roads because there were no trucks in the vicinity and no other vehicles close to me at the time.
