Ok, this might sound a little odd, and maybe I'm just being a bit odd.

My car (fiesta st) hasn't felt "right" for the last couple of days.. I'm also ill with some sort of virus at the mo, which for some reason or other has also played havoc with my back.. So that may be the real reason.. But anyways.

I have a 8 inch or so crack which has appeared at the bottom of the windscreen on the passenger side. I don't recall any stones hitting it and upon rubbing a finger over it, there is nothing other than the crack. No impact spot or anything.

I guess chassis flex could crack a window, but wouldn't this have to be quite a large amount?

Just completely miffed as to why this crack has appeared, and more so because I don't feel like the car feels right..

Any guesses?

The crack comes up from the slam panel area if that's any help.

 

might just be the screens time to be changed

once they crack they keep on spreading, it's an mot failure but i don't think it's a nickabe offence

 

Surely something would need to cause the crack though?

Glass doesn't just break for the sake of it?

It'll be changed. Just found it strange and possibly coincidental that it happened around the same time as finding the car different to drive.

 

My S2 has had one just go as did my first Audi. Went to bed it was fine, following morning a bloody great crack coming down from above the rear view mirror

 

you can get stress cracks on glass especially if its not the original screen as fitters ability comes into play unless you were cornering like a pro ralley star so unlikely to be that, so simple old sods law if fully comp pay your excess and hey presto its fixed

 

Same happened with my old civic, one day while driving the sun was shining and something caught my eye, it was a 2 inch crack, just like you I never saw/heard anything hit the window on the day it appeared or any time before the day. After a few months it grew to about 6-7 inches! Shortly after I sold the car so I never had to deal it in the end, and glad I didn't because it was a screen with a top tint in it so wouldn't have been cheap

 

Same happened to my old RS 2000 lol

 

Ah well, I kinda take comfort knowing it's not an isolated case. Time to give the robbing bastards a call..

Cheers!

 

just leave it till nearer mot time. you might get a stone chip the day after the new one is fitted