Every chip will eventually crack
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Jasandjules said:
Well, if you are selling something that fixes cracks in screens..................
Well, quite.I've had the Audi for two years now, and it's endured -12'C, rides extremely firmly and has had two big chips in the windscreen the whole time. They have not changed a jot. Neither, in fact, has the unrelated big crack I got a couple of months ago, despite it freezing several times!
Really must get round to fixing that..
We all know full well that not every chip will eventually crack. I told this to my girlfriend when she noticed a chip in the windscreen of our Focus.
Of course, the chip then became a 2 foot long crack, and took a number of weeks to sort out with the windscreen company, who kept messing up the replacement windscreen.
"I knew that would happen" She said. "It said so on the radio".
I no longer listen to commercial radio.
Of course, the chip then became a 2 foot long crack, and took a number of weeks to sort out with the windscreen company, who kept messing up the replacement windscreen.
"I knew that would happen" She said. "It said so on the radio".
I no longer listen to commercial radio.
I had one "fixed" by this company using this method and the fix fell out and the chip never got any worse, like the previous poster says, despite hard suspensions and really low temperatures, I wouldnt use them again as it doesnt really work (based on a smaple size of one) and I hate the adverts they bombard you with, all chummy regional accents with a slightly sinister overtone suggesting you will have to pay "your expensive insurance excess". The give an example of "His last customer" who was a GP, like a GP on 100 plus grand a year really worries about a sixty quid excess, they will just rub some antibiotic or steroid cream on it themselves anyway.
rovermorris999 said:
Perhaps the Advertising Standards Authority would be interested.
They clearly have been in the past from all of the outrageous claims that have gradually disappeared from their adverts over the years including but not exclusively:- Your windscreen makes up part of the structure of the car and if it cracks then it suddenly becomes as rigid as a piece of wet bog roll, making it DANGEROUUUS
- Bob goes on a driving holiday with his family, the windscreen cracks and he has to stop the car, drive straight back home and commit hari kare, presumably because the wheels might fall off because the screen has cracked
- A new windscreen costs a million pounds and you'll have to pay your huge insurance excess, instead of the rather more affordable glass excess that virtually all insurers actually have
- The smallest pot hole, speed bump, bout of cold/hot/wet/windy weather/flatulence will cause even the world's smallest stone chip to crack right across the screen
- Every insurer uses us, and all stone chip repairs are always free, and there's only a one in a squillion chance that you'll actually get a bill
Could this possibly be Cargl*ss we're talking about here? They run the same ads here in Germany (in German of course), but otherwise the same message: Any fule nose that if you don't get the chip fixed within a day, you will have a terrible accident, the screen will shatter, and you will probably die immediately. I never drive further than 10km from the next Cargl*ss branch in case I get a stone chip, just to be on the safe side. 
rovermorris999 said:
I was listening to a radio advert from a well-known windscreen replacement company which stated that every chip (on the screen) will eventually crack. Now I've owned cars for years that had chipped screens that didn't crack. Was I lucky or is it marketing puff?
Sort of, in the normal world we call it bull s
t my escort had a chip for the entire 9 years i owned it, when it finaly died due to rust (not caused by the chip in the screen either !!) i sold the spare screen i had in the garage for it to a bloke with a chipped screen who was sure it was going to explode at the nest pothole
Edited by NHK244V on Thursday 2nd February 12:39
redstu said:
Chips do crack! especially if you are a bit hamfisted with a screwdriver when removing rust from a Renault 5. One second minor chip immediately followed by 6 inch crack and MOT fail!
I did the very same on a clio. It was outside of the MOT area though. I did get it changed to stop my Dad worrying. (he hasnt heard of laminated glass). Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff