My car had a busted headlight lens when I bought it. It's still busted because the quote to fix it was about $380 and I have this opinion that that's way too much, so I refuse to fix it out of spite. Plus I am too lazy to find a junk yard.
Over the last year I've managed to get a couple of small chips in the windshield. Nothing big enough to have to fix, but irritating. Plus there's the accumulated pitting of the windshield over the years. (I've never had a new windshield (or car), but I've seen new glass, it looks nice.)
On Saturday the car got High Speed Rock Hit #4. It was a decent sized rock and it had places to be; it couldn't be bothered with going around my car and instead tried its damnedest to go right through the windshield. Happily it failed, because its next target would have been my right arm. I don't think it would have taken the arm clean off... but I do think that the rock would still be lodged in there.
So after the "Holy Shit!" I let out a "Woohoo!" because I new I was going to get a new windshield, for FREE, thanks to 100% coverage on glass. Weee!
Today I got the new windshield installed, as well as the answer to "Do they need my car keys to replace the windshield?" (The answer is no, of course, they just yank the window out of the car and open it, setting off the alarm.)
I thought they were supposed to call me before they came over... oh well.
So now the windshield is brand new, almost spotless, and entirely pit-free. It's wonderful. You can see through it and everything!
But I noticed, when I parked the car in the morning, that my left front fog light lens was freshly broken.
Nice. Thanks. 'preciate it. Apparently these rocks travel in small groups... like a gang, breakin' shit.
When I eventually fix the lens on the headlight, sometime just before selling the car, I suspect, I'll put on something like these headlight shields.
Maybe I should do that sooner, rather than later, before a freakin Rock Monster attacks the car.
Posted by rc at April 10, 2002 12:53 AM