Timely Car Glass Repair: How to Protect Your Windshield and Save Money
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Professional car glass repair is the best way to protect your windshield from further crack spreading and to minimize the likelihood that a full windshield replacement will be needed in the future.
Moreover, windshield repair is an environmentally sustainable and eco-friendly choice, since the restoration process produces virtually no waste. It is also great for your wallet, because repairing the damage is many times cheaper than buying a new glass and installing it along with the subsequent calibration of ADAS driver-assistance systems.
When Is Car Glass Repair Possible and Recommended?
Windshield repair delivers the best and highest-quality result when the damage is fresh and road dirt and moisture have not yet penetrated it. We believe that an urgent glass replacement is not necessary if the chip in the windshield can be repaired safely and to a high standard.
Key Criteria for the Damage to Be Repairable:
- The diameter of the chip (including micro-cracks) does not exceed the size of a 2-euro coin.
- The damage is located more than 6 cm from the outer edge of the windshield.
- The chip is not in the driver’s direct field of vision.
- The inner (cabin-side) layer of the glass is not damaged.
đź’ˇ Expert tip: If a stone has hit your windshield, immediately cover the damaged spot with clear adhesive tape. This will protect the chip from dust and water, ensuring a better repair result!
VÄ“jstikli.lv: Windshield Repair with State-of-the-Art Equipment
At our service center, car glass repair is performed at a whole new level of quality thanks to the latest equipment.
📷 IMG/VIDEO — image or video of the Terminator unit in operation.
- Maximum precision: The repair is performed using the automated Terminator unit from Sekurit Service. Using controlled vacuum technology, this automated system completely extracts the air from the damaged area and injects the highest-quality polymer into it at a precisely controlled pressure. Such precision cannot be achieved by hand.
- Reduced risk of cracking: When working with the Terminator unit, mechanical drilling of the windshield is mostly unnecessary. This dramatically reduces the risk of the glass cracking further during the repair process.
- Excellent optical clarity: At the end of the repair, the injected polymer is cured with a specific UV light whose wavelength precisely matches the manufacturer’s standards. The surface is then polished, restoring the glass’s original transparency and smoothness.
Key Benefits of Choosing Car Glass Repair
By choosing to fix the damage in time, you gain significant advantages:
- Fast repair: Professional car glass repair takes only about 30 minutes on average, letting you continue your journey right away.
- Financial savings: While a new glass replacement with sensor calibration can cost several hundred euros, a quality repair costs on average only around 49 EUR.
- Restored glass strength: The polymer structurally bonds the damaged parts of the glass, restoring the impact zone’s original strength and blocking water, ice, and dirt from reaching the inner layer of the glass.
- Factory glazing and body rigidity: Since the glass is not removed during the repair, the vehicle keeps its original factory (OEM) glazing and bonding, so the body rigidity remains unchanged.
- Full KASKO insurance support: Insurance companies always recommend repairing the glass first whenever technically possible. Importantly, such a repair claim usually does not affect the price of your next year’s insurance policy (bonus-malus) and is covered without a deductible.
- Sustainable and eco-conscious thinking: Restoring the existing glass saves the resources and energy that would be needed to manufacture a new glass and dispose of the old one.
