I am getting ready to have the 3rd windshield installed in my forester this Monday. I've owned it for 4 months. I know what happened to the OEM windshield, a pheasant took it out. The 2nd windshield developed a crack at the base of it on the passenger side near the edge of the heating element for the de-icers. The Next windshield (the one being repaced on Monday) cracked all the way across the bottom over the deicer heating elements.
My questions are:
Why do they break there? is the frame around the windshield uneven?
The replacement windshields are from Safelite and Diamond Autoglass, a big company with mobil installers and many shops around the US. Is there a resistor or something that keeps the elements from getting too hot that got broken or not installed when they replaced the factory one.
Has this happened to anyone else with heated windshields. or is it something wrong with the windshield frame/vehicle body.
Many thanks for any help, I'm tired or repalcing these things.

My questions are:
Why do they break there? is the frame around the windshield uneven?
The replacement windshields are from Safelite and Diamond Autoglass, a big company with mobil installers and many shops around the US. Is there a resistor or something that keeps the elements from getting too hot that got broken or not installed when they replaced the factory one.
Has this happened to anyone else with heated windshields. or is it something wrong with the windshield frame/vehicle body.
Many thanks for any help, I'm tired or repalcing these things.