car is 2 days old with 400 miles and a rock flips up and chips the windshield. Did not seem like a big rock or loud crack. Its also a small chip so really not a big deal....but windshield does seem very thin compared to my last BMW. Has anyone else noticed this or had their windshield chip/crack yet?

 

Not yet but the same thing happened on my 211 E63...So painful.

JD

 

I had it crack on my W211. Started out tiny and then it got bigger and bigger.

 

Unfortunately window chips can happen on any car regardless of the manufacturer. (It's glass.)

However if you don't wait to long you can call a windowshield repair place and they can fill the chip/crack with some kind of clear epoxy. This will reduce the annonyance of seeing the chip/crack and stop it from growing. Its ussually about $60-75. Don't wait to long otherwise dirt will get trapped in there.

Way cheaper that $1000+ for a new windshield.

 

Yes. Mercedes really dropped the ball here and decided to use thinner windshield glass on the new E. Fortunately, BMW is coming out with a new 5 series that is supposed to have significantly superior windshield glass. The new E is in so much trouble.

 

nice

 

From what I've heard the W211 (pre-facelift) had the thickest windshield ever.

 

ipp - you may not have picked up on it, but my post was written in a sarcastic tone. I am sure that the windshield glass meets or exceeds safety specs and that the original poster caught an unlucky rock.

 

Ditto.