Chip in windscreen

[EagleOrIgel]

Would you be happy driving around with a chip in your windscreen?
Even more expensive than planned day trip out to a theme park with the DC today, windscreen got a piece of grit (?) at it whilst we were on the motorway. It seems that as it's tiny, the chip itself is max. 2-3mm diameter and the "shock" around it is smaller than a 5p piece; it's not in the drivers direct field of vision and neither is it at the edge of the windscreen, then we can get it filled with resin.

Would you be happy to do this? Drive around with a damaged, but repaired, windscreen. Would it worry you that the safety of the car is compromised?

If you have a tiny chip and you go over a bump or the weather gets colder it can spread into a huge crack and then you have to pay more to replace the whole windscreen

I had a chip repaired. The guy doing it said it was at the outer limit of what he thought was viable but he was happy with the job. It went through 4 MOTs and sold to a dealer intact.

It is a MOT fail if the crack is in your field of vision. Only know as had a 2-3cm crack, driver’s side, and was told car would fail. Had it fixed at Halfords quickly and inexpensively.

@EagleOrIgel

1. Check with your motor insurance policy - they may have approved installers/repairers.
2. It might not work. I had a chip on my windscreen, waited 3 days for Autoglass to repair it and they cracked it while they were trying to fix it. Couldn't get it replaced for another 3 days (Ford Focus, so nothing too "rare" about make/model).
3. I paid for the repair and as it went wrong, they deducted the fee for the repair off the fee for the replacement.

Good luck!

Oh, and just to add - we traded the car in a couple of weeks later as they found it wasn't it's original windscreen and the frame at roof level had rusted because the replacement had been fitted poorly.
What started out as a tenner cost about £140 + £6500 + my rusty Focus as a trade in. 🤯