Windshield protection

[Slowride]

I had came across a product on a detailing YouTube site. The name of the product is shatter x. It is a sio2 wipe on protection. My gladiator had received a rock chip with in the first week of owning it. I was wondering if anybody has tried this and if it really works?

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[Jaydebe]

I dunno about that stuff; but I was lucky enough to have my windshield last about 15k miles before needing a replacement. Sadly, the 15k miles did mean it was only 5 months old.

I will share that up to that point; I was 100% surprised by how long it lasted based on the amount of items that had some big hits to the windshield.

Our JTR was subjected to 1 cross-country trip and several trips from Va/WV to Ga/Fl trips too.

We replaced it with a Gorilla Glass windshield and on the first trip to Az took a direct hit from a rock that was easily 2" in size and very angular in shape. Too our surprise, we had only some dust (rock dust maybe) on the windshield from the strike.

Under a lot of scrutiny, you can just make out a pin-head sized imperfection where the rock hit, but nothing more. This has been the case at least 4x since. Mostly because WV uses 1/8-1/4 gravel (AKA crush and run minus the binder) for the roads during snow.

Very happy with it so far.

*** Also, as a bonus; the windshield is extremely clear. Like almost HD4k type of clear vs a normal windshield (which I didn't even know was an issue until we owned the new one)

 

[BAT]

I would imagine how trashy the glass is anything might be a help. My second one is just hanging on at almost 10,000 miles but just to give you an idea. I put my rain gear cover on during the freeze we had here in Houston the part that sits over the windshield is like a soft covering type of material. When I top off the top after a few days the windshield had small scratches in it. I ran my hand on the material from the Rain Gear top and it was super smooth nothing I could detect that would remotely scratch a windshield just sitting on it. Couple more hits and then its on to number 3. Will either go Gorilla type glass or maybe leaning toward the peel away protective layering onto of regular windshield

 

[Slowride]

If I get a chance I might have to get some and try it. For the price, it’s not a bad deal, if it works. There is a company called glovebox detail and I see that they had included it in that month’s subscription. They usually test products before they include them.

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