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My car windshield is cracked...
SkyGheNe
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A few months ago a rock from a truck hit my windshield and left a nick in the windshield...I didn't think anything of it until this morning when it turned into a foot long crack on the drivers side.
I know the cost can be between $300-$500. I have a 07 ford focus, but I came here to ask if anyone had any experience in this and some suggestions based on personal experience with it. Should I just ask for a quick fix or should i outright replace it? Wait till it gets REALLY bad or what?
I know the cost can be between $300-$500. I have a 07 ford focus, but I came here to ask if anyone had any experience in this and some suggestions based on personal experience with it. Should I just ask for a quick fix or should i outright replace it? Wait till it gets REALLY bad or what?
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Call a windscreen place and ask them how much to replace the screen. Popular models usually aren't all that expensive.
My insurance, and almost all fully-comp insurance in Britain, will repair little chips in your windscreen for free to avoid what you just described. And even if they didn't, next time pay the money to have it done. Much cheaper in the long run. No idea how this applies to other countries, as ever, but someone like auto-glass in other countries must have the same ability.
You know that your insurance might cover windscreen replacement but you'd have to pay an excess? Ringing them and talking to them is the first point of call.
As Japan said, if you get a small nick again, go into an auto glass repair place, they can fill in those little nicks for a very nominal price, which will stop it turning into the situation you have now.
When I had to get my windshield replaced on my older Focus, it didn't cost much more than $100.
Edit: Ah, insurance may have been involved in that price, I can't remember. Definitely ask your company if they cover cracked windshields.
What they did do, though, was quote me a price to have the windshield replaced, and tell me where I could get it for that price. They quoted me at around $265, IIRC (I'm fixing it this week).
When this happened to me, it was free for my insurance to replace it, but that's because I have a $0 deductible clause. Give your company a call and see what your current coverage is and what they recommend.
if you're in Connecticut your car insurance is required to cover full glass replacement, one of those silly things you don't know about until somebody puts a PA speaker through a window
call your insurance agent and get a list of glass repair people, some of them will even repair your windshield in your own driveway
This excites me - I'll have to call this week and see if I can get some of the costs covered. Thanks for this heads up.
hey, no problem
it saved me a hell of a lot of money, hopefully it will do the same for you
the one I had replaced was a rear fixed window that had been completely smashed and insurance covered the entire cost
What's more, it now won't take much for the screen to shatter, meaning the next time a truck kicks up a piece of gravel on his screen suddenly he's going to get a face full of glass.
Like most have said, windscreen repairs are often covered with $0 excess on insurance policies precisely because not getting chipped or cracked windscreens replaced is so darn dangerous.
safety glass (like what windshields are made out of) does not 'shatter' unless you put a LOT more force against it than a rock from a truck can do.
also, the windshield does not 'support' the frame. all the windshield will do structurally is perhaps reduce vibrations. a frame that bends without a windshield is a frame that would squish flat if the car ever flipped on its roof.
I am getting my tiny crack filled ASAP.
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As for repairs, it's not possible to repair anything much bigger than a quarter, and even then, if it's started to "run", your only option is going to be replacement.
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