Windscreen damage

Where the windscreen is bonded in nowadays in such things as BMW's etc I'm pretty sure the windscreen is part of the rigidity of the shell.
I wonder where DVSA would stand on structural integrity being compromised ?


Here you go chapter and verse !


Are car windscreens structural?

The windshield provides a significant amount of strength to the structural support in the cabin of the vehicle. For instance, in a front end collision the windshield provides up to 45% of the structural integrity of the cabin of the vehicle and in a rollover, up to 60%.

damaged but not restricting view gone now has it?

baz657 the pictures  were taken from the driver's seat  it's cracked right across the screen looking 👀 at the pictures did the damage seriously impede my view NO Minor defect  I've got a revised flow chart in the test lane and says Minor defect  My opinion to minimum standards 

To all the other lads and lasses  who I did NOT tag I didn't forget about you !!!  with this post I just tagged the frequent flyers of this forum Everyone's views and opinions Are  Relevant one and All  feel free to Express  yourself s  on this you All know mine

It's a P reg 97 Audi A4 diesel with 347500 mile on the clock Ruff as as a rat dog 🐕 💩 car woof ruff but refuses to die I've been testing this Piece of sh1t for 6 years 😂 now we fit a brand new front subframe since last year and other stuff it will get repaired again minus the the windscreen

There are times when the only way of making a decision would be to sit behind the wheel & view the defect.

I could be a foot taller (or shorter) and have a completely different perspective.

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a minor if it doesn't affect the drivers view of the road.

Flow chart it’s 4 years old 

Many years ago, VOSA (as they were then) were toying with the idea of making the testable area of the windscreen the size of a landscape oriented A4 sheet of paper, held vertically on the windscreen in front of the driver. Any damage in that area, no matter how small, was to be a major fail and any other area not testable.