Stone hit windscreen repair or replace ?

[Quantum State]

Hi any windscreen experts know if this can be repaired ? Key fob for scale.

It’s on passenger side bottom left ish.

[Glassman]

Repair.

All day long.

[cobra kid]

Repair quickly. I had one that size and as soon as the temperatures dropped, it became a crack and went the full width of the bottom of my screen, in the space of about 5 seconds.

[Quantum State]

That makes me very happy 😊

[Glassman]

The round shape in the middle and the six main cracks can be filled. here are a multitude of smaller cracks between them which will also fill during the process.

Known in the trade as a combination repair.

[Quantum State]

Thanks guys

[200Plus Club]

Glassman said:

The round shape in the middle and the six main cracks can be filled. here are a multitude of smaller cracks between them which will also fill during the process.

Known in the trade as a combination repair.

I've something similar but smaller, local windscreen/repair company had a go at a repair and left it looking exactly the same. He definitely drilled and filled it with riding but nothing happened really. Can this be tackled again do you think or us it new screen time ?

[Robertb]

Glassman said:

The round shape in the middle and the six main cracks can be filled. here are a multitude of smaller cracks between them which will also fill during the process.

Known in the trade as a combination repair.

@Glassman... a long-shot but could a broken glass fisheye lens on a front-facing 360 camera be improved at least by a repair? I took a stone-hit to mine, still works ok except the view is obscured by the cracks and a new OE one is nearly £550 before fitting!

[silentbrown]

Quantum State said:

It s on passenger side bottom left ish.

Had a repair attempted on stonechip on the driver's side. It was much better, but you'd easily notice it every time you got into the car. Was happy for autoglass to call it a failed repair, and for me to pay the bigger excess for a new screen.

[Glassman]

200Plus Club said:

I've something similar but smaller, local windscreen/repair company had a go at a repair and left it looking exactly the same. He definitely drilled and filled it with riding but nothing happened really. Can this be tackled again do you think or us it new screen time ?

Rule of thumb is that a repair cannot be re-repaired. However, some repairs can.

If the 'break' hasn't been filled, and generally looks the same after the attempt as it did before, there is a chance of getting back into it. Re-repairs can be very straight forward in this instance but they are risky, especially if the break has been partially filled. The technique in this case would be to pop it open again, creating a chip within the chip.

The general standard of repair is very low as there are so many repairer who a) cannot be bothered, and b) don't know what a good repair looks like never mind know how to achieve one.

[Glassman]

Robertb said:

@Glassman... a long-shot but could a broken glass fisheye lens on a front-facing 360 camera be improved at least by a repair? I took a stone-hit to mine, still works ok except the view is obscured by the cracks and a new OE one is nearly £550 before fitting!

Not had any experience with them. Happy to take a look though.

[essayer]

cobra kid said:

Repair quickly. I had one that size and as soon as the temperatures dropped, it became a crack and went the full width of the bottom of my screen, in the space of about 5 seconds.

Same!!

[Robertb]

Glassman said:

Robertb said:

@Glassman... a long-shot but could a broken glass fisheye lens on a front-facing 360 camera be improved at least by a repair? I took a stone-hit to mine, still works ok except the view is obscured by the cracks and a new OE one is nearly £550 before fitting!

Not had any experience with them. Happy to take a look though.

Great, I'll message you via your website.