Windscreen chip repair
Discussion
Never required glass in many years of driving. Knocked the glass insurance of my incurance policy this year and this is the 2nd issue I've had!
Replaced the full screen using an indie last time at £190.
Thhis time is just a chip. Impact on the outside, spider on the inside, prob 7mm across.
Whts the best way to get it repaired?
Replaced the full screen using an indie last time at £190.
Thhis time is just a chip. Impact on the outside, spider on the inside, prob 7mm across.
Whts the best way to get it repaired?
I once needed a chip repaired for MOT and was only on third party insurance.
I called a local guy out and his reaction was quite funny. I had told him on the phone it was "about" 10mm but apparently I underestimated by a fair bit. He claimed to do work for a local Porsche dealer and he saw my star shaped crack as a challenge, but I'd have to forget his advertised MOT pass guarantee. I agreed.
£50 (and a good half hour later, from memory) he announced that it wasn't as good as he hoped, but he was finished. I could barely see it. The MOT tester also expressed surprise at the virtually invisible repair. I sold the car not long after and two years later I received an email from the couple that bought it. It had just passed another MOT needing nothing but four tyres during their ownership.
Some time earlier, I had a small chip repaired by the guy in Halfords car park. The resin fell out within a few days. So make of this post what you will!
I called a local guy out and his reaction was quite funny. I had told him on the phone it was "about" 10mm but apparently I underestimated by a fair bit. He claimed to do work for a local Porsche dealer and he saw my star shaped crack as a challenge, but I'd have to forget his advertised MOT pass guarantee. I agreed.
£50 (and a good half hour later, from memory) he announced that it wasn't as good as he hoped, but he was finished. I could barely see it. The MOT tester also expressed surprise at the virtually invisible repair. I sold the car not long after and two years later I received an email from the couple that bought it. It had just passed another MOT needing nothing but four tyres during their ownership.
Some time earlier, I had a small chip repaired by the guy in Halfords car park. The resin fell out within a few days. So make of this post what you will!
You tend to see windscreen repairers in those 'one car size' marquees at retail parks and supermarket car parks at the weekend. They usually claim the cost of the repair from your insurer. They inject resin into the crack to seal it. IIRC, Autoglass wanted approx £20 to do the same repair instead of for free.
I got one done on our Galaxy - much preferable to a replacement screen and all the associated aggro that goes with it IMO.
I got one done on our Galaxy - much preferable to a replacement screen and all the associated aggro that goes with it IMO.
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