Mesa Az Auto Glass Specialist Tips On Repairs and Replacements

Published Jul 20th, 2010

We have all experienced it at some time in our life. A small pebble or rock bounces up as you are driving down the freeway and hits your windshield. “Damn”! A small crack appears, that in the beginning is only but an annoyance, way off to the side of the windshield. Well out of the way of your field of vision.

Four Hours In a Mesa Az Auto Glass Specialist Shop

“Man I hope that sucker stays the size that it is” It doesn’t and  bit by bit, it seems to expand its reach until it’s plainly obvious that the entire windshield has to be replaced. A job thats going to involve at least four or five hours of waiting at a Meza Az auto glass specialists shop and set you back some several three hundred dollars or so.

The Common Method For Repairing Cracked Windshields

So now the guy doing the windshield replacement tells you that you should have come in earlier when the small crack first appeared. It turns out that they could have stopped it from growing by drilling a small discreet hole in your windshield, right at the tip of the crack where it was spreading. The hole would then be filed with a clear hard plastic that no one would even notice.

Still Yet One More Reason To Have the Crack Repaired Early On

The Az auto glass specialist goes on to further explain that your auto insurance most likely covers the full cost of these types of windshield repairs. On the other hand, your insurance most likely only has partial coverage for the cost of replacing the entire windshield. “Oh well”. Next time you’ll know better. He finished the job, you pay the bill and drive away but not before sticking one of his cards in your glove box.