Free windscreen chip repair

Our chipped windscreen repair service costs £and takes around minutes to complete. Because this is a relatively precise service, the timing may differ slightly depending on the location and size of the chip. To book your windscreen repair service, head down to your local store where our fully trained technicians will be able to advise you.

A chip could develop into a crack at any time - and often when you least expect it. Claiming for your windscreen chip repair.

Can windscreen chips be repaired? Can you fix a chipped windscreen? How much does a windscreen chip repair cost? Does Insurance Cover windscreen chips? They’re also a common cause of MOT failure. The good news is that our windscreen chip repair service can fill any chips in around minutes, leaving you to get back on the road and on with your life. If the chip in your windscreen is located within the line of vision, then we can repair chips up to 10mm in size.

Any larger and the windscreen will need to be replaced.

If the chip is outside of the line of vision, but anywhere within the area covered by the windscreen wipers, it can usually be fixe but it depends on the width and depth of the chip. This is because it does not impair the divers main line of sight. This can be seen in the diagram in Zone C. K views Sooler Forumite. Your windscreen provides up to 30% of the vehicle’s structural strength and the passenger airbag relies on the windscreen to provide support if the airbag deploys.

Repairing a chip will result in your windscreen being as strong as before the damage happened. During winter months when motorists use heated windscreens and warm fans to defrost the glass, the chances of that small chip suddenly expanding are greatly increased.

Chips that are located more than 7cm from the edge of your windscreen can usually be, safely repaired. A repair located any closer to the edge of the glass could potentially weaken the windscreen as a whole, so in this situation a replacement is required.

Our trained and experienced windscreen repair technicians will fix a stone chip while you wait or while you shop at your local supermarket or DIY shop. Also, because Optic-Kleer don’t replace windscreens we won’t push you into a replacement that you don’t need. With 1fitting centres and 8mobile technicians, you can choose to drive to your local windscreen repair fitting centre or one.

Almost all chips will eventually turn into cracks unless repaire and chip repairs have a very high permanent success rate. If your windscreen can be repaired we. With a repair costing the insurance company £40-£(I think) and a replacement windscreen potentially costing several hundred pounds (especially for cars with heated screens etc.) it makes a lot of sense for insurers to save money in the long run by repairing chips.

Most insurance policies include the cost of windscreen chip repairs as part of the premium, meaning a repair will not cost you any more.

Some policies include chip repair for free – no excess to pay. Show navigation Hide navigation. Does car insurance cover windscreen damage?

But windscreen damage isn’t included on every car insurance policy. We think that actually getting a chip or crack in your windscreen is enough hassle, and we do all we can to make the repair as easy as possible. In addition to providing a mobile windscreen repair service at a time and place to suit you, if your insurer covers windscreen repairs we can handle all the paperwork on your behalf.

DXlxq In this video I show you the method I used to repair a rock chip in my windsh. Rapid temperature changes can damage your windscreen, while dodgy road surfaces can turn tiny chips into huge cracks. Tim Hutton Reliable and efficient. Said that there was no need for repair and that if it was his car he would not have bothered but that if I still wished he would fill in the chip for a nominal amount which he did.

Going through your insurance company can take a while, and often the cost of the repair is less than your excess, so you won’t save anything. For £3 we’ll repair your chipped windscreen for you.

On average it takes about minutes, so you can wait whilst. If there’s a damaged area larger than 10mm in the driver’s line of sight, it’s an MOT fail. Sometimes a full windshield replacement is the only answer. Windscreen chip MOT rules.

But at Safelite, if a chip or crack is six inches or smaller, a quick repair may be all you need.