GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – With frigid temperatures well below zero throughout Wisconsin, it’s not just dangerous to your body, but can be dangerous to your car, too.
People have been reporting that their car’s windshield had cracked after driving outside, so Local 5 caught up with Tri City Glass and Door to better understand what’s causing the windshields to do this in the freezing cold.
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“A lot of it is the expanding and contracting of the windshield, so the cold causes the glass to contract, and then when people start their vehicles to heat them up, then you get a lot of expansion,” stated Auto Glass Technician Adam Bennett of Tri City Glass and Door. “When it expands, the crack will typically spread.”
If you have a crack or chip in your windshield that was filled, it could increase the risk of a larger crack in the windshield.
