Windscreen Repairs
You know the situation, you’re driving along and pass a lorry or truck which churns up some gravel that hits your windscreen. Next thing you have a small chip in your windscreen. It’s annoying but how many of us take it in to get repaired immediately?
Repairing your windscreen in good time will essentially save you a lot of hassle and money in the long run. What happens to that small chip, it becomes a crack that keeps getting longer until you have to replace the entire windscreen. Windscreen repair is far cheaper than replacement and chips, edge cracks and any other kind of windscreen damage can be repaired fairly quickly at your local glass fitment centre.
Windscreen faults, although they can seem small and insignificant, can actually have a significant impact on the safety of you and your passengers. If your windscreen has been weakened in any way, no matter how small, its ability to withstand an impact is far less than a windscreen in perfect condition.
Windscreen repairs are usually done by first forcing any air that is trapped inside the crack or chip in the glass. This space is then filled with a specific resin that will match the strength of your windscreen and well as its tint and light refraction.
There are a number of advantages to having your windscreen repaired rather than replacing it. You are able to keep your original factory fitted windscreen seal. And besides saving on time and cost, windscreen repairs are also an eco friendly option as most windscreens cannot be recycled.
Some windscreen faults can’t be repaired. These include having damage to both sides of the glass, damage to the windscreen’s internal layer and damage to the PVC layer of the windscreen such as ingrained dirt and delamination.
Linda Hanley provides windscreens in Wakefield and without her help, this page would not have been created.