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Comfort glass replacement time!

Wow lucky. Glad you are safe. +1 BMW

Glad you and the passengers walked away.

On a somewhat related note, one of our local bridges "lost" some ice chucks that fell onto cars recently here. Bad enough when trucks do it, but a bridge that you can't impound?? Global BC | BC's Port Mann Bridge reopens after falling ice damages vehicles

Windshields glass are made from laminated glass, whereas as tempered glass is used for all the other glass on the car. Tempered glass shatter into small piece to prevent serious injuries, while laminated glass remains intact.

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Originally Posted by Gregory891 (Post 914954)

Actually double glazing was an X5 factory option, I'd expect for very cold regions. As for an OEM windscreen, if you have the rain sensor - I don't believe there are (yet) alternatives from other glass OEM's for the E53.

Good for Helmuth that the safety glass windshield did what it is designed to do (there is a limit). I once had a similar experience with a vintage tempered windshield in an early 80's Citroen GSA. A shower of glass shards inside the car, some of which never fully came out of the ventilation system. Every week following for months I'd find some more glass bits in the floor area and would vacuum them up and work to get more out.

The replacement one was laminated. If you have a vintage car, check that it has a laminated windshield. If you have an old tempered glass windshield, find a modern laminated one - you may be thankful one day that you did.

Um, laminated glass has been used almost exclusively since Henry ford started putting it into cars in the 1920's. Could you be referring to something else?