A windscreen chip could turn into a crack at any time
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You utter morons, how dare you use scare tactics on the public to boost your business. Wayne, 23, will come down to your place of work and use his "special compound" on your windscreen that is far in advance of any other product offered by competitors.
I am sure the radio ads say "will crack" and just checked. Someone has taken them to the ASA, and the feckwits have not upheld the complaint.
http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/201...
"We considered that the research and customer survey had shown that a chip would in all likelihood develop into a crack and therefore concluded that the claim "every chip will eventually crack" had been substantiated."
I am sure the radio ads say "will crack" and just checked. Someone has taken them to the ASA, and the feckwits have not upheld the complaint.
http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/201...
"We considered that the research and customer survey had shown that a chip would in all likelihood develop into a crack and therefore concluded that the claim "every chip will eventually crack" had been substantiated."
98elise said:
I've been driving for about 30 years, never had a chip turn into a crack. Before it became an MOT issue nobody did anything about chips.
Before it was an MOT issue you didn't have so many laminated screens so you wouldn't get a chip, just a shattered screen.I've had chips that have stayed just that and I've had them slowly or quickly spread into a crack across the screen so it's more luck than science.
I hate these adverts as well, they are on all the time.
Imagine the terror of having to pay your "expensive insurance excess", its £50, not a grand, make me laugh when they use the imaginary tales of woe where someone was too busy and ignored the chip in their windscreen, they used one where it was a busy doctor who had to pay the dreaded excess, £50, a GP earns 150 grand a year.
To be honest the annoying whiny midlands accents the actors on the ad have makes me want to never use them, I dont need to know the name or age of the bloke who fixes my window.
I had it done once by them and it just fell out after a month, utter crap, to me I recjon this is the insurance industry trying to save money.
Imagine the terror of having to pay your "expensive insurance excess", its £50, not a grand, make me laugh when they use the imaginary tales of woe where someone was too busy and ignored the chip in their windscreen, they used one where it was a busy doctor who had to pay the dreaded excess, £50, a GP earns 150 grand a year.
To be honest the annoying whiny midlands accents the actors on the ad have makes me want to never use them, I dont need to know the name or age of the bloke who fixes my window.
I had it done once by them and it just fell out after a month, utter crap, to me I recjon this is the insurance industry trying to save money.
. So I am told 
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. Glassman said:
redgriff500 said:
It could - including whilst they try to repair it.
"Wayne" turned a small chip into a 2ft crack in my old Co. car - great !
Did you give him permission to crack your screen, IOW, sign the disclaimer?"Wayne" turned a small chip into a 2ft crack in my old Co. car - great !
I had a couple of chips repaired in the past and I don't like the optical effect that the resin gives around the chip - makes them very noticeable from inside I think. I'd prefer to let the screen crack and have it replaced if its a really big chip or just leave small chips alone from my experience. And as someone else said a £50 or £75 excess is hardly going to break the bank.
Oh and BTW not many GP's make that sort of money
Oh and BTW not many GP's make that sort of money
Glassman said:
This:
[pic]http://www .bluechipglass.com/images/blue-chip-auto-glass-windshield-repair.jpg[/pic]
Will break screens.
Sometime ago I had a chip repaired using one of those. In went "the resin" the chip split into a crack all the way up the screen.[pic]http://www .bluechipglass.com/images/blue-chip-auto-glass-windshield-repair.jpg[/pic]
Will break screens.
When first shown the chip the "technician"
said "I can't fix that chip it's too big (He was looking at a bug splat) 
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