13/05/2021
How Long Until a Chip in Your Windscreen Becomes a Crack???
As you travel down the highway, you begin to shift to the right lane to pass a large truck. Then, a loud crack fills the car as a rock is thrown from the truck wheel onto the center of your windscreen. The rock chips the glass and leaves a small crack. You’re glad it wasn’t more serious and decide the small damage isn’t disrupting your view of the road so you put off auto glass repair for a few days.
Unfortunately, even that small amount of time is all your windscreen needs for the chip to splinter into larger cracks. What is now a repairable chip can soon make your vehicle undrivable. In most areas, operating a vehicle with a crack or damage that obstructs the driver’s view can leave you with unroadworthy vehicle.
Causes of Windscreen Chips:
A chip in your windscreen can come from a number of factors, including, motor vehicle accidents, fallen trees or branches, hail storms, foreign objects hitting your car, vandalism etc. Regardless of how the chip occurs, it’s important to get it repaired right away. Waiting even a short amount of time allows the chip to splinter, causing large cracks.
Different environmental factors could cause the chip to become a crack within hours.
Temperature: When it is hot or cold outside, your windscreen or other auto glass will expand and contract. This change in the glass can cause the chip to grow. Cold temperatures at night or sitting in the steamy parking lot all day will make the damage more severe.
Vibrations: When you drive your vehicle, it vibrates. Driving along bumpy roads or hitting potholes can rattle your windscreen and expand the crack.
Dirt: If dirt or dust enters the small chip in your auto glass, the resin often used to repair the damage may not be effective. Covering the damage, and booking in a repair as soon as possible after the damage first occurs will ensure dirt doesn’t disrupt the repair process.
Contact Fusion Chip Repairs if your windscreen is damaged. Our professional team will help you with your windscreen issues, and come to you to repair for your convenience.
