Windhiled on Pilot a rock magnet?

[N9JIG]

Right after I bought my 2009 Pilot, in fact on the inaugural trip, I got a windshield ding from a rock on the Interstate near Indianapolis. $75 later at a glass shop and it was fixed with an epoxy patch.

2 years later I was on a freeway outside Calgary and got a rock that spidered my windshield. A new windshield was installed in Montana the next day.

2 months after this I got a third rock that spidered the windshield again near Chicago.

I have now traded in my Pilot for a new Odyssey, I am running out of windshields!

Am I just unlucky or is there some weird wind flow issue that attracts rocks to the windshield of Pilots?

(BTW, I didn't catch the spelling error on the message title until it was too late, I guess one can not edit message titles...)

[Arizonaadam]

It's like deja vu all over again. I don't think you're the first one with this observation. But, I think it's probably coincidence. But, who knows. I have three rock chips on my 2000-mile-old 2011. I have gone a decade without rock chips on other cars.

[roarkrd]

Originally Posted by Arizonaadam

It's like deja vu all over again. I don't think you're the first one with this observation. But, I think it's probably coincidence. But, who knows. I have three rock chips on my 2000-mile-old 2011. I have gone a decade without rock chips on other cars.

My only guess is that it has something to do with the higher stance and angle of the Pilot's windshield. My 2003's windshield currently has two chips and has been hit way more times than that.

[whizmo]

Go to virtually any forum on any vehicle and there will be posts like yours. I doubt it has anything to do with the vehicle. It's a statistical thing - at either end of the curve, 5% of owners will have lots and lots of windshield hits and 5% will have absolutely none for decades. You're the 1/20 who got the statistical shaft.

- Mark

[macphanatic]

Probably has more to do with the poor condition of most US roads these days.

[refotsirk]

Sticks and stones will break my windshield...but words will never hurt me....
Wellllllll.......

I too have noticed a tremendous amount of dingings on the roads and have learned the hard way to stay way back from the large dump trucks and heavy trailers with construction machinery on it...as they seem to be losing most of the debris that they have accumulated on their underbellies and suspensions.
Especially on multi lane highways where what may merely be laying on the road...gets "kicked up" and onto the next vehicle...usually mine.
I finish my long trips wondering if that clunk or dink sound took out my grill/foglight/headlight.
It's like flying thru an asteroid belt sometimes. Especially in summer during construction
on the highways.
Where is my forcefield when i need it? Trojectories suck! And my spelling!

[rocky]

It seems we have another common feature on between the first and second gen Pilot. Mine only picks up dings when we're in NC. 800 miles from home. Go figure!