Luck strikes again & again & ...

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  1. TaterWagon#62

    TaterWagon#62 Medium Load Member

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    The Mack in my avatar picture had a magic attraction to birds.

    I was crawling along at about 25 mph trying to get up a hill and I caught what looked like a gray baseball out of the corner of my eye. Smacked right into the passenger side windshield leaving bird crap but no damage.

    A couple of days later going about 20 mph another bird went for the same window, I heard it but didn't see it until it fell down out of the shade onto my hood as I stopped for a stop sign.

    Why birds were flying into my slow moving truck is beyond me.
     
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  3. free spirited1

    free spirited1 Heavy Load Member

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    Sometime certain bird are attracted to colors...check see if you got a color that offends or attracts them....like with me I get attention from certain bees or even a wasp in certain areas, they love a certain perfume I wear...lol...just sayin driver
     
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  4. dca

    dca Road Train Member

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    I give up..

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  5. rank

    rank Road Train Member

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    Is this the fourth since September? How is that even possible?
     
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  6. Big Don

    Big Don "Old Fart"

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  7. free spirited1

    free spirited1 Heavy Load Member

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    I hope you have extensive windshield rock insurance....lol
     
  8. Raezzor

    Raezzor Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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    Dang DCA, maybe you should invest in something like this KW got:

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  9. free spirited1

    free spirited1 Heavy Load Member

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    Put a rock shield protector in...like that driver has....called it the "rock my world"
     
  10. Highway Sailor

    Highway Sailor Road Train Member

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    A driver I know has had his windshield replaced more times then his truck has been PM. He is on his 4th for this year alone. I myself am on my second. I have heard something about them using a lighter glass, but I'm not sure if that's the case.
     
  11. uncleal13

    uncleal13 Road Train Member

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    I owned a 1996 Lada (Russian made car). Drove it for 7 years. I swear the windshield in that car was bullet proof. It got hit really hard a number of times and it absolutely never cracked at all.
    Someone told me they use a thicker plastic laminate between the two layers of safety glass.
     
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