rear defroster question

Hi, Today was attaching my rear license plate on my 3 week old S85D and noticed something strange about the rear defroster lines.

I haven't tried to use the defroster yet so I don't know whether I have a problem.


I noticed that the lines are not contiguous. There are breaks within a line. How can that work if there is no continuity?


I noticed at least 4 places where the lines seem broken with an 1/8 of an inch missing..

Here is an image, though not good quality. Its hard to get a closeup of that area without a better camera.
But you can see the gap.


Any thoughts? Is this normal?
thanks in advance.

On a related point, when I took delivery, the SC actually taped the paper temp plate on the inside of the rear window. I thought nothing of it till I got home.

Isn't that a bad thing to do since it can lift the defroster lines?

I was VERY careful when I removed the taped temporary paper license plate.


The line breaks I saw were not in the area where he taped the temp plate though. But it still seems like a bad idea to do that.