Windscreen stone chip repairs in Sydney

Is it necessary to have a small chip on a windscreen repaired?

During daily car use, it is inevitable that the front windshield is hit by a stone chip, resulting in a crack in your windscreen.

Some car owners may think that the crack is relatively small, and the crack position is not at the centre or in front of the driver, having no effect on the critical vision area, so they chose to ignore it. In fact, this opinion is incorrect.

After the windscreen is cracked, the auto glass may be deformed due to factors such as wind, sun, rain, temperature difference between day and night, and road conditions. And if you continue to drive, the wind resistance will further erode the damaged area, bringing continuous pressure to the glass, causing the damaged area to be gradually enlarged.

For example, there is only a few millimetres of a small crack in the morning, and if you ignore it and continue to drive, it may become a few centimetres at night. When the cracks get increasingly large, it is easy to turn into a crack, and finally the whole piece of glass is cracked and dropped. Therefore, repairing a chip is urgent.

After all, compared with safety, windscreen chip repair cost is not worth mentioning at all. It is conceivable that if you drive at high speed and the front windshield shatters, the consequences are completely unimaginable, and there is also the risk of being smashed by thieves to steal the property in the car.

How to fix a chipped windscreen?

Most of the stone chips splashed at high speed will break the glass. When there is a crack in the glass, the glass is easy to break when the air conditioner is on in the car after the sun is shining.

The main component of the car windshield is SiO2, and the main component of the glass repair resin is also SiO2. In the repairing process, it is first necessary to vacuumize, and then use the pressure of the glass repair agent to inject it into the glass crack and cure it, which is tantamount to replacing the air in the crack with resin.

Although the main component of resin and glass is SiO2, their density is still different, so the refractive index will be different from the original glass. The reflection angle of some cracks is exactly 45 degrees between the human eye and the light source. Therefore, after repairing the faint reflections of the cracks can still be seen.

As the glass is originally a whole piece, it is the strongest. After suddenly there is a big hole and a crack in the middle, the bearing capacity of the glass becomes poor. If you walk on bumpy roads and long-distance high-speed for a long time, the crack will become larger and larger, accelerating the breakage of the entire glass.

What types of windscreen damage are eligible for crack repair?

Generally, there are two types of glass installed in automobiles, tempered glass, and laminated glass. Laminated glass has high penetration resistance and can still maintain a certain degree of visibility after being broken, so is mostly used in front windshields. Tempered glass is mainly installed on the doors and tailgate.

Laminated glass refers to a glass that is pasted between two or three layers of glass with a transparent adhesive plastic film, which combines the strength of plastic and the hardness of glass. Chip repair services are not included repair side and rear windows, since when tempered glass is impacted and broken, it will shatter into countless small honeycomb-shaped obtuse-angle small particles, which can only be replaced.

How to protect your windshield?

In the usual glass maintenance, the glass water should be selected according to the season and weather conditions, so that the cleaning will be much brighter.

You also can put film on the glass. And the higher the anti-ultraviolet index, the better, because it can protect the parts of the centre console and prevent premature aging from long-term sunlight and UV light.

Conditional car owners can buy the window insurance for their cars.

Repairing chips or cracks on windscreen at Aussie AutoGlass

Our shop Aussie AutoGlass provides many auto glass services including car window repair and windscreen replacement. Our team is highly trained, and the process of services takes up to 30 minutes which is very quick. You can drive back on the road after two hours from repaired. We also have mobile service, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, enabling you to enjoy high quality auto glass service anytime and anywhere.