so yesterday i was going about 55 on a street, it was the speed limit, and i was driving i did not see a gray pigeon standing in the street not looking my way, i saw it as it started to take off from the ground. it didn't get that high after i nailed it with the lower part of the windshield, and it hit it and flew and all i saw was feathers in my rear view mirror falling from the sky, i felt bad, no damage to car just white and gray dirt or dust on the window, washed it off. all good now though.
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so yesterday i was going about 55 on a street, it was the speed limit, and i was driving i did not see a gray pigeon standing in the street not looking my way, i saw it as it started to take off from the ground. it didn't get that high after i nailed it with the lower part of the windshield, and it hit it and flew and all i saw was feathers in my rear view mirror falling from the sky, i felt bad, no damage to car just white and gray dirt or dust on the window, washed it off. all good now though.
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lol Damn....Glad to know the windsheild can withstand such a blow, but hows the bird?:lmao:
A pigeon is nothing for a steeply raked windshield. They're NOT tough at all anymore man; they're much thinner than years ago, and all it takes is a small rock to crack it. You can hit a vulture taking off and nothing would happen to it either. The problem is when the object hits the windshield at a perpendicular angle, like a stone kicked up by a car ahead. A bird is taking off at almost the same angle as the windshield, plus it's soft and large (compared to a pebble) so the resultant impact is little. Take care.
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resultant??
resulting* :banana:
resulting* :banana:
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i wouldn't say its a strong windshield, but rather you got lucky the pigeon didnt hit the windows weak spots which could be anywhere, a slight hit will crack the whole thing. any class has a weak spot. but glad nothing happened
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Dude I had a regular size bird hit my 98 civic coming back from a weddding the day after and man was it windy...doing about 70 or so and the wind was kicking, the darn bird didn't have a chance. The wind literally took the bird and smack right into the windshield of my car. No damage to my ride but I have no clue what happened to the bird.
On a side note today while out Xmas shopping my d@mn windshield and side windows would fog up randomly. Maybe it was the different parts of PA I was driving in but still it was a PITA to deal with.
On a side note today while out Xmas shopping my d@mn windshield and side windows would fog up randomly. Maybe it was the different parts of PA I was driving in but still it was a PITA to deal with.
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D@mn... what a horrible story!?! Glad to hear that you weren't overwhelmed by the sensory-input of a "exploded" pigeon, resulting in a dangerous maneuver which could've potentially made the situation worse!
Many deem the urban pigeon to be nothin' more than "flying rats", but these birds have a lot of character & candor. . .
Many deem the urban pigeon to be nothin' more than "flying rats", but these birds have a lot of character & candor. . .
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I had a rock hit my windshield and it made my ears ring yet no damage was done to the windshield
I just got a crack in my windshield from a rock (at 60 mph). It grew to about 3 inches within the next 10 miles. Next trip, it went to around 6 inches.
The rock didn't sound very large. The contact point was an inch or so in from the right-side A-pillar. If the glass is stressed at the location the rock hits, you'll get a crack.
Does anyone know if I should be insisting on OEM windshield for a replacement? Do non-OEM windshields have the same shading and dot patterns (in the area around the auto-dimming mirror mount and wires)?
The rock didn't sound very large. The contact point was an inch or so in from the right-side A-pillar. If the glass is stressed at the location the rock hits, you'll get a crack.
Does anyone know if I should be insisting on OEM windshield for a replacement? Do non-OEM windshields have the same shading and dot patterns (in the area around the auto-dimming mirror mount and wires)?
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Just tell the glass place ahead of time to make sure the sunshade strip and dot-matrix pattern are identical, this way they can't plea ignorance afterwards.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khf1Q53eiWcI've never seen a windshield crack because of a bird strike...
But I know grills usually hold up to the punishment - my old Tacoma grill met the face end of a yellow finch. It was quite colorful
Ha! I think I saw that back a year or so ago, but none the less still knarly (and nasty!)
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