Rear Screen Crack

[LawrieS]

Disaster has struck, popped out for an early Sunday drive and discovered this on my return.

Only now I have read it's best to warm the screen before folding, is it just me that always ends up learning the hard way



It's about 10mm long, and I'm not particularly fussed about replacing it just yet, I'm planning on having the targas and now this re-done in the next couple of years anyway so just looking for a solution to stop it cracking further and a suggestion to fill/glue/stick it back together for the meantime, any experience or idea's gratefully received, before I end up moving to the dark side

Thanks
Lawrie

[Griffinr]

Probably the best thing to use is clear exterior heavy duty repair tape inside and out. I think Gorilla do one but there are others.

[TurboTony]

Lawrie. The same happened to my rear window and is a sign that it is living on borrowed time. I used clear Gorilla tape to seal mine. We sell it at work so if you want me to bring some to SCH let me know.

[phillpot]

I used something like this before I got around to replacing mine.

[mk1fan]

If you go near a bicycle shop then you could get some Park 'Self Adhesive Patch Repair' pads that should be big enough to fix that and small enough to not catch the eye.

[greymrj]

Hard luck Lawrie. I would tend to go for Phillpots suggestion, never used it but seen it work OK, and readily available.

[TurboTony]

Lawrie

I have some Gorilla tape in the boot of my TVR and you can have some to seal your split. We sell the Isabella patches at work (they are designed for awning repair) as well as some cheaper patches.

[lewdon]

it might be worth considering using the point of a hot needle to melt a tiny hole at each end of the split to try to stop it propagating, before you patch it.

[glenrobbo]

lewdon said:

it might be worth considering using the point of a hot needle to melt a tiny hole at each end of the split to try to stop it propagating, before you patch it.

Sound advice.
It
is common engineering practise to "stop drill" each end of stress cracks to prevent them propagating further.