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From: jake on 18 Jun 2010 16:59
It's just a small star-shaped glass fracture presently.
I'd like to keep it from expanding. Any recommendations?
(Permatex products don't get rave reviews on Amazon.)

Thanks,
Jake
From: Jeff Strickland on 18 Jun 2010 17:12
I went to the glass shop and the guy fixed my chip for $40. He used a thing
that was held to the glass with suction cups, and then put some goop into a
thing that looked like a syringe that fit the thing held on by the suction
cups, and turned a thumb screw to push the goop into the hole and hold it
while it dried. He then removed the suction cup thing and used a razor blade
to clean around the edge of the repair. The whole thing took about 30
minutes. I'm not sure this is something that will go very well for people
that have to ask what the best product is. I do lots of stuff, and I thought
to myself, I wonder what the best product is to use. I paid for the job and
got a very good result. I coulda paid less, I suppose, and done it myself,
but I'm not sure I coulda done it as good as I got it done.



"jake" <jake.pinneberg(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> It's just a small star-shaped glass fracture presently.
> I'd like to keep it from expanding. Any recommendations?
> (Permatex products don't get rave reviews on Amazon.)
>
> Thanks,
> Jake


From: ron on 18 Jun 2010 19:19
When my Highlander got a chip at 3000 miles I went to a windshield shop to
have it repaired - they had a coupon for $25 and same time also headed
insite of winshield to help pull in the eposy - can see a tiny glint once in
a while but better than a windshield

From: Ray O on 19 Jun 2010 12:19

"jake" <jake.pinneberg(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:962d74b2-d573-4a55-bc71-ac2c5c0a659e(a)z15g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> It's just a small star-shaped glass fracture presently.
> I'd like to keep it from expanding. Any recommendations?
> (Permatex products don't get rave reviews on Amazon.)
>
> Thanks,
> Jake


As Jeff Strickland and Ron mentioned, glass shops use a process that yields
good results. The resin that they use is cured with UV light.

Some insurance companies will wave the deductible for this repair since the
repair is less costly than a windshield replacement.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)


From: Jeff Strickland on 19 Jun 2010 12:38

"Ray O" <rokigawa(a)NOSPAMtristarassociates.com> wrote in message
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>
> "jake" <jake.pinneberg(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:962d74b2-d573-4a55-bc71-ac2c5c0a659e(a)z15g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>> It's just a small star-shaped glass fracture presently.
>> I'd like to keep it from expanding. Any recommendations?
>> (Permatex products don't get rave reviews on Amazon.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jake
>
>
> As Jeff Strickland and Ron mentioned, glass shops use a process that
> yields good results. The resin that they use is cured with UV light.
>
> Some insurance companies will wave the deductible for this repair since
> the repair is less costly than a windshield replacement.
> --
>

There's a catch to waving the deductable, Ray. My insurance guy (Auto Club)
said there is a scam where glass shops are making claims for chips on cars
that have not come in for repairs.

I don't know the details, exactly, but I _think_ the scam goes sorta like
this ...

I bring my car in with a chip and the carrier pays the repair.
The glass shop keeps my information.
After a few months, the glass shop makes a second claim. Then a third, and
so on. Multiple cars and multiple claims could provide significant bogus
costs paid by the carriers.

Another scenario is a claimant and a glass shop working together to make a
claim for a chip that does not exist and splitting the claim payment.


The bottom line is that fixing a chip is so cheap that the insurance
companies might not cover it anymore thanks to unscrupulous shops making
bogus claims.









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