Citroen ZX windscreen cracking

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Wed 24 Nov 2004 12:28
Citroen ZX windscreen cracking - Roger Jones
The windscreen on a friend's P-reg Citroen ZX has cracked in the same place for the third time in a year. Replacements have been fitted by Autoglass. Presumably its a structural flexing problem, but does anyone have any better ideas or experience of the same problem?
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Wed 24 Nov 2004 15:35
Citroen ZX windscreen cracking - Altea Ego
It sounds like there is a bad weld, irregular piece of metal or something like that is intruding onto the windscreen edge. It needs to be identified and taken off with an angle grinder or file,
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Wed 24 Nov 2004 15:40
Citroen ZX windscreen cracking - AR-CoolC
Agree with RF

There is probably something protruding up slightly causing the cracks.
Where abouts on the screen are the cracks coming from? Bottom edge etc.

(Glass-Tech)
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Wed 24 Nov 2004 18:15
Citroen ZX windscreen cracking - Civic8
Had this problem on a Sierra. Many years ago. it was a weld gone wrong. Looked like tiny pin sticking up from weld. Could not be seen untill old resin had been cleaned off..ground pin off..Never happened again. Ps problem occured at PDI stage. so customer only new of one screen going..
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Steve
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Wed 24 Nov 2004 22:10
Citroen ZX windscreen cracking - martint123
Has it been in an accident and twisted? A colleague had an Astra that went through half a dozen screens before they put it on a jig and saw it was bent. - This was from new.

Martin
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