On december 28 returning from a christmas holiday my windshield was hit by a pebble in the rain driving on the highway. it started as a small star at the point of impact but the windshield began to crack across the windshield. i took it to lexus my lexus tire and windshield insurance did not cover the cracked windshield. i spent a $500 deductible from my car insurance and had the windshield replaced. i never have seen anything like it. i had a toyota 1996 camry new for 23 years and i have never had a pebble grow from a star shape nick to a full on crack in the windshield, this is not normal. i do not think this windshield is safe. i took the car to be fixed and had it replaced with the lexus oem windshield to keep the car with lexus standard early january 2019. i used a lexus vendor to replace the windshield. january 16, 2019 1.5 weeks later i was driving home from work down the highway in rainy weather with the newly installed windshield a pebble hits it a star shape shows up. it didn't crack immediately, this time (the second time) the windshield cracked over night. i was going to take it to lexus to fix it under my insurance plan, but by morning it had cracked over night. now, i had to spend another $500.00 deductible to my insurance company, while the first claim was still being processed. the 2019 lexus nx 300 is faulty i am very concerned. the windshield is replace but i am driving on the defense everyday afraid that my windshield is going to be hit again. i would request that lexus recalls the 2019 lexus nx 300 windshields they are not safe.
On december 28 returning from a christmas holiday my windshield was hit by a pebble in the rain driving on the highway. it started as a small star at the point of impact but the windshield began to crack across the windshield. i took it to lexus my lexus tire and windshield insurance did not cover the cracked windshield. i spent a $500 deductible from my car insurance and had the windshield replaced. i never have seen anything like it. i had a toyota 1996 camry new for 23 years and i have never had a pebble grow from a star shape nick to a full on crack in the windshield, this is not normal. i do not think this windshield is safe. i took the car to be fixed and had it replaced with the lexus oem windshield to keep the car with lexus standard early january 2019. i used a lexus vendor to replace the windshield. !.5 weeks later i was driving home from work down the highway in rainy weather with the newly installed windshield a pebble hits it a star shape shows up. it didn't crack immediately, this time (the second time) the windshield cracked over night. i was going to take it to lexus to fix it under my insurance plan, but by morning it had cracked over night. now, i had to spend another $500.00 deductible to my insurance company, while the first claim was still being processed. the 2019 lexus nx 300 is faulty i am very concerned. the windshield is replace but i am driving on the defense everyday afraid that my windshield is going to be hit again. i would request that lexus recalls the 2019 lexus nx 300 windshields they are not safe.
While driving on a highway at about 35 mph i heard a light "clicking" sound and noticed a 0.5 inch star-shaped crack right in the center of the front windshield. as i continued driving the crack started growing across the windshield even when i parked the car. overnight, it expanded horizontally as can be seen from the attached "before and after" photo and is now almost 80% of the windshield width. in my 50 years of driving experience having been through a good dozen of similar situations i have never seen anything like it when tiny chips or cracks would quickly expand to that enormous size. because of the fast crack propagation this is potentially a very dangerous defect for the drivers which should be reported to the glass manufacturer to fix it.