Originally Posted by Rennie Mihalovic
The temperature hit 102 degrees here in Washington yesterday. When I got to my car after work, the windshield had cracked. But it wasn't a straight horizontal crack--It was in the shape of a sideways 'S' on the driver side. I'm assuming the heat building up inside the black car was too much for this air tight vehicle.
So I guess a warning is in order--if you can't get your sun roof open, leave your windows open a crack on these hot days. Does that sound like something your dad might have said 30 years ago?
Are windshield replacements expensive and/or hard to find?
1) If you have insurance, a windshield replacement won't cost you anything, and they will come to wherever you are to do it.
2) A black car doesn't get any hotter inside than a white car or any other color car. Any car interior will easily hit temps of 130° and above when parked in the heat. The only difference is, it takes a white car a minute or so longer to heat up.
3) People who live in hot southern states, or who have in the past, know to leave a window cracked when it's hot out. You not only avoid cracked windows, you avoid having a window blow out entirely.