Hey there fit-sapiens. My names Ray. Ive had my fit for six months now. I love it really. Its the best car Ive ever driven for its price range. It handles great in situations where ive had to be quick. The other day I walked out of work and noticed a crack in my windshield on the lower part of the drivers side. The crack curved and the next couple days got bigger and then curved right in the middle of the windshield. The dealer said they found a very slight (almost nothing) impact mark. Then my wife saw another 2015 fit same color with a crack in the windshield at the same spot. Has anyone else seen this happening? It might just be a coincidence. Or it might not be. I've never bought a new car before. But I've also never had any of my cars or my family members cars crack a windshield. Thanks for reading.

 

The industry practice is to do a rudimentaey "pen test". They run a ball point pen along the crack, and if it snags onto even the smallest indent along the crack, then you are the proud owner of a windshield that cracked as the result of a projectile impact.

 

Sucks to have it happen to a new car, but this is completely normal and no car with windshield can avoid the potential of getting it cracked.
Some people who live in areas with a lot of gravel consider windshield a wear and tear item and may replace several of them per year.
See if your insurance covers it with lower deductible than the full price at a glass shop.

 

while it can happen that the metal structure around the windshield can prevent the windshield from expansion in heat it is not very common on new cars. it does happen tho.
as for the old wives tale that a pen catching the edge of a crack is indication of impact, its not true. the crack immediately results in one side out of lie with the other so the 'test' is invalid. I suspect its a 'test'; to avoid responsibility.

the replacement windshield is likely to be better because it is placed into the already reset structure tho its not guaranteed.
sharp indentations of a point attack is one of those indications truly of impact and by your description sounds like the situation.
btw the color of the car should have no effect on the crack unless the factory ran a series of cars with same color from a set structure.
assembly. its not usual. and once a crack develops its absolutely normal for it to increase in length.

 

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Read this please, From last page of stickied quality issues with new fit thread:

This may be just my car, but it is very unusual to experience this.

My FIT is 2015 production, just 2 months old.

Detailing the car this week for the first time, noticed cracks in the Black section lower passenger side corner. They are not visible from the inside as they all sit below the dash line. They are also partially covered by the short wiper. Even looking at them directly, they are not easy to see, and require direct sunlight. They are easy to miss, hidden in the black, and could have been there since the car was delivered 2 months ago.

There is spidering off of the main crack line and it ends at the edge of the window. There is no damage at all to the windshield on the outside--perfectly smooth.

Took it to an auto glass repair place for an opinion. Was told that they are stress fractures of the glass possibly caused by improper installation of the windshield unless the windshield was damaged before installation.

Took it to the Dealer. Service manager inspected. He pulled away the molding from the passenger side to see that crack originates at edge of the window and travels irregularly approx. a foot horizontally. He said it was a stress fracture, and they will replace it, and ordered a new windshield.

He shared that newer windshields are lighter, thinner, and subject to more fracturing than the windshields of old in order to reduce weight and increase fuel economy.

I have never had stress fractures of any windows in any other cars that I have owned including another Honda.

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Follow-up:

-New Windshield was installed today under the warranty ($678.00).
-Multiple fractures up to 12 inches were found on the inside running to the side of the glass in the black area.
-They will send the fractured Windshield to Honda for inspection per their request.
-Service adviser did not believe that it was systemic, and thinks this was an isolated incident on my car only.
-Honda's glass installer said the original Windshield was not aligned properly--was not centered and off to one side too much. He said that could have been the cause, but not sure. He said misalignment can happen on the assembly line when the robots lay the glass down or the glass was dropped too hard causing a slight fracture that expanded in the heat.
-He took care to align and center the new windshield properly.

 

This is not unheard of... early-build Elements sometimes broke windshields too.

 

2" crack on lower lh drivers side. very small impact mark it looks like. had 99 civic for 15 years , same driving conditions no cracks. makes you wonder.....REALLY makes you wonder....

2015 not even 6 months old

 

What does it make you wonder about? The Fit is arguably a tiny bit more prone to windshield impacts than some other cars just because the windshield is comparatively large and tall, but other than that...well, it's often just the luck of the draw. At least in my experience around here, fifteen years without needing a windshield replaced is doing quite well indeed.

I have not so fond memories of purchasing a nice used car while in college, driving home to get the registration transferred and pay taxes and get the state inspection, and on the way back to college having a truck in front of me kick up a stone and cause the windshield to crack clear across—on I think it was the twelfth day I owned the car. Stuff happens sometimes.

 

it makes me wonder if new windshields are thinner....your right its a pretty big windshield..your right it could be bad luck.