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Has anyone but me noticed subtle ripples in his windshield? I'm not talking about the normal curvatures you see near a windshield's edges; this is a series of vertical "ridges" that seem to run all the way across.
You don't see these ripples when looking straight through the glass, but they become apparent at oblique angles. When driving, glance to the right (through the passenger side of the windshield) and watch how hard-edged objects warp as you go along. Imagine a ruler laid horizontally with a little "wave" or inchworm running left to right, and that's kind of what you'll see as you drive past a guardrail or any other straight, man-made object.
I thought this might have been a phenomenon restricted to the edges of the windshield, but the other day when my GTO was in the garage and the garage door was open, allowing in soft evening light, I was standing there and noticed that these little ripples appeared to run all the way across. It reminded me of the wings of a balsa wood airplane--paper stretched taut over spars, with each spar an inch or so apart.
Makes me wonder if my car had a windshield replacement before I took delivery. I just went out and looked at the label in the passenger-side corner: There's a diamond with some stylized initials in it, along with the word "laminated" and some other gobbledygook.
Oh well. It doesn't really matter anyway. I'm not going to get another windshield, and it's only a bother when I actually go looking for it.
You don't see these ripples when looking straight through the glass, but they become apparent at oblique angles. When driving, glance to the right (through the passenger side of the windshield) and watch how hard-edged objects warp as you go along. Imagine a ruler laid horizontally with a little "wave" or inchworm running left to right, and that's kind of what you'll see as you drive past a guardrail or any other straight, man-made object.
I thought this might have been a phenomenon restricted to the edges of the windshield, but the other day when my GTO was in the garage and the garage door was open, allowing in soft evening light, I was standing there and noticed that these little ripples appeared to run all the way across. It reminded me of the wings of a balsa wood airplane--paper stretched taut over spars, with each spar an inch or so apart.
Makes me wonder if my car had a windshield replacement before I took delivery. I just went out and looked at the label in the passenger-side corner: There's a diamond with some stylized initials in it, along with the word "laminated" and some other gobbledygook.
Oh well. It doesn't really matter anyway. I'm not going to get another windshield, and it's only a bother when I actually go looking for it.