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Ive had plenty of cracked spot lights and headlights before at less than 100kph... As for your interoir why did you pay extra to buy leather when you could have just bought cloth interior?
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An my passenger side fog light.
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if you guys think I am full of it then thats fine I don't care I have done experiments with headlight lenses and rocks and its extremely hard to crack the lenses
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I seen the funniest thing last week.....
An elderly couple with their Ghia and full leather interior and they had these tatty old sheep skin covers that were literally skin virtually all the wool had worn off kept me entertained let me say lol
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Working with cars, you notice things, headlight/foglight covers are one good little thing to spend money on. The glass in foglights is brittle, and doesn't take much to crack or chip.
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I'm a chippy so i just chucked a thin cotton bed sheet over the fairlane material seats in my svo Ute stops stickaflecks, glue, paint ect ect.
but the bed sheet is not abrasive like the back of nearly all sheep wool covers, those things eat vinyl and leather even worse when you get grit sand ect under there
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Windscreens crack due to the fact that they are so large from edge to edge, this weakens the surface and when you pinpoint impact it the force cracks it as it flexes minutely across the surface, and as they are glass/plexi/glass (safety glass) the outer layer of glass cracks.
Headlights are different the lenses as a general rule are much smaller and much much thicker this means there is less distance to flex the surface like in the case of a windscreen. As for my experiments I got old headlight lense (XE Falcon headlight) and tapped them with an air ram from a nailgun at varying amounts of pressure. I concede there is a distinct possibility that foglights and other types of lights may not be as thick/strong as the one I tested. Sandblasted headlight lenses are a valid argument for them, sandblasted lenses are not roadworthy here (vic) 4Vman : That was a very cheap shot - do you tear everybody that has a differing opinion to yours? - and I bought leather interior as the car was secondhand and thats what was in it, and having always had cloth I decided why not try it once.
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I KNOW! My mrs has shitty pink covers over them nice AU XR8 2 seats! Yuk! But at the same time its mine soon so better the kidz mess them up rather than the REAL covers.
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You have no proof, data or stats to back up your claims and it is common knowledge that headlight breakages due to stones are a common occurrence.
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Seat covers it is for me, since I have young boys and my 3yo likes to make a mess. Would rather just have to replace my seat covers than have drink & food stains all over my seats. But its a personal preference thing and each to their own.
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(ie:you do 100 the rock coming at you is also doing at least 100)
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I use a throwover on my drivers seat, so as soon as I'm not using the car for work travel the cover comes off.
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As for headslight lenses, they are toughened, hit them in a weak spot and they will shatter into a million pieces. I know this as i previously worked for Pilkington/Viridian - the main glass supplier for Holden and Ford
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I thought this was about seat covers on new cars. I must be mistaken
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