Windscreen Chip Repair -- Will all Cracks Disappear?

[Yipper]

Can a "starfish" windscreen chip like this be completely "disappeared" with a smart repair?

Will the resin fill 100% of all the cracks and make them all vanish? Or will some of the cracks remain behind after the repair?

[trickywoo]

In my experience if you look hard you'll see the chip after a repair.

Your image is quite an extreme chip and have thought borderline for a new screen.

[Glassman]

Yipper said:

Can a "starfish" windscreen chip like this be completely "disappeared" with a smart repair?

Starbreaks are the most challenging to repair. There are techniques to manipulate the break and thus get the resin to fill; the more 'legs' the harder it is to fill.

Yipper said:

Will the resin fill 100% of all the cracks and make them all vanish? Or will some of the cracks remain behind after the repair?

No matter what kind of damage it is (eg bullseye, cloverleaf, combination break, half moon, starbreak etc) and how good the repair is, there will always be something visible even it is the (filled and polished) impact crater.

Edited by Glassman on Sunday 30th April 13:40

[Sa Calobra]

If that's a pic of the actual crack I'd look at a new screen. Your eye will always be drawn to it multiple times a trip

[spookly]

I've had something far more minor than that filled before and it was still visible if you looked. It also seemed to get worse over time. Ex wife crashed the car so never got to see how bad it would have gotten.

Now I don't get repairs done at all, just get new glass. Except on lease cars. Get the chip done just before I send it back :-)

[Glassman]

spookly said:

I've had something far more minor than that filled before and it was still visible if you looked. It also seemed to get worse over time.

Got worse... in what sense? Reappeared? Or did the centre discolour and shrink?

[Yipper]

Thanks, all. Good info.

Had the starfish chip (similar to the image above) smart-repaired with a microdrill and resin today for £45 (insurance paid) and, as yall predicted, you cannot feel it when you run a finger across it, but you can still see it with the eye from the inside and outside. Of the 5 "legs" the chip had, one of them is still fairly sizeable and visible. It is on the middle-left of the windscreen, and it glints in direct sunlight, so let's see whether it drives me and / or passengers bananas in the coming weeks and needs a full-glass replacement. Don't really wanna go down that route, though, as there is always a slight risk of leaks, bad fitting, glue smearing, etc.

[Glassman]

Yipper said:

yall

Excuse me?

[topless360]

We had a crack like this which was repaired with some sort of injection. It looks exactly the same after the repair I'm afraid to say, but it is apparantly safe with no risk of turning into a bigger crack.

[Glassman]

topless360 said:

We had a crack like this which was repaired with some sort of injection. It looks exactly the same after the repair I'm afraid to say, but it is apparantly safe with no risk of turning into a bigger crack.

If it looks exactly the same, it wasn't filled properly and what you were told was basically a lie and you - or your insurer - were conned.

Sorry.