{"id":62,"date":"2006-01-28T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T20:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2006\/01\/28\/a-new-windshield\/"},"modified":"2006-01-28T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T20:16:40","slug":"a-new-windshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/2006\/01\/28\/a-new-windshield\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Windshield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday morning, a car in front of me kicked up a big piece of plywood off the road, which came spinning at me and hit my windshield.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jwardell\/92254496\/\"title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/21\/92254496_b1dc49f0a7.jpg\"  BORDER=\"1\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" alt=\"20060127-104336\" \/><\/a><\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAside from the sudden shock of a smashed windshield, I was also disappointed because I was in the running for the longest lasting original MINI windshield. Everyone else I know has had several replaced because they cracked on their own. I did have hundreds of tiny chips that made it look dirty even after a good polishing, but I never had a crack.\n<\/p>\n<p>So after a quick call to insurance I called <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.minipeabody.com\/\" onClick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outgoing\/MOP');\">MINI of Peabody<\/a>, and spent most of Friday afternoon up at everyone&#8217;s favorite MINI dealer. Chris took me right away as usual, but to my surprise this is the first time I had seen their service bays almost empty. It&#8217;s also the first time I&#8217;ve seen them with a lot of inventory; sales is certainly slower this month while everyone&#8217;s wallets try to recover from Christmas. I spent the next few hours chatting with all the MOP employees and watching rushes of sales business come and go. Before I knew it, my MINI was back in one piece again, nice and clean, and a brand new windshield. I forgot what it was like to have a clear windshield, just like the first time I tried on a pair of glasses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPerfect timing actually, because I have Aquapel coming in next week, which I had planned to face off with RainX, and now I don&#8217;t have to wait till the spring for a clean windshield. Stay tuned for the results in several weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday morning, a car in front of me kicked up a big piece of plywood off the road, which came spinning at me and hit my windshield. Aside from the sudden shock of a smashed windshield, I was also disappointed because I was in the running for the longest lasting original MINI windshield. Everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/mini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}