Ultra Bond Windshield Repair

05/29/2026

Harvard Law Professor writes a blog on the Ultra Bond, Campfield v. Safelite Group, Inc. Landmark Ruling on the Six-Inch, Size of a Dollar Bill False Advertising. https://www.ultrabond.com/harvard-law-professor-writes-a-blog-on-the-landmark-ruling-ultra-bond-richard-campfield-v-safelite-group-inc

05/08/2026

NEW Disappearing Ultra Bond Crystal Quartz 20cps and 40cps Chip Repair Resins now available.

Testing over the last 7 months has been completed. Now you, your customer and the insurer can have their cake and eat it to. Not only do stone-breaks disappear but have New Glass Strength of 105% and 108% - meeting the insurer obligation of pre-loss condition as defined by State Farm in the windshield repair class action - Cullen v State Farm using Ultra Bond's ANSI and ASTM lab tests for defense, as restoring: (a) strength, (b) structural integrity, (c) function and (d) safety.

https://www.ultrabond.com/windshield-repair-resins

03/06/2026

The Windshield Repair Case Law

Campfield v. Safelite Group, Inc., 91 F.4th 407 (6th Cir. 2024)

Ultra Bond’s 6th Circuit Appeal Court victory is being hailed as a “Landmark Case”. Turns out it gives more than just Ultra Bond Users “Binding Precedent” on Safelite but any independent competitor in any industry that falsely advertises and deceives consumers. A big win for consumers and independent competitors.

A “Landmark Case” is a judicial decision that introduces a major new legal principle or changes how current laws are understood.1 While these cases can happen in various courts, they most often come from the highest courts, such as the U.S. Supreme Court or a Federal Appeals Court. When a higher court establishes a landmark ruling, lower courts within that same jurisdiction are generally required to follow that decision as a binding rule. (Legal Clarity.org)

Here is the Landmark Ruling of Ultra Bond v Safelite case law explained and how it can help all ethical competitors.

https://www.ultrabond.com/Case-Law-Campfield-v-Safelite-Group-Inc-91-F-4th-407-6th-Cir-2024

Understand the impact of Campfield v. Safelite on windshield repair. Discover how Ultra Bond's technology meets safety standards.

01/20/2026

Get Paid Twice as Much with Ultra Bond

LEGAL PRECEDENTS :

The United States District Court of Ohio ruled that, "customer satisfaction and technician skill alone do not prove a windshield repair is safe—scientific testing is required," as in the ANSI/NWRA/ROLAGS 001-2014 Lab Tests. Ultra Bond v Safelite.

This was affirmed and published by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, making it Case Law.

Why is this spot-on and 100% correct? No repair technician nor consumer can tell by looking at a chip repair or by pressing on it with a probe, can tell whether the repair is at 45% or 100% strength restoration. Only a material strength testing machine can do that such as Standard Test Method For Strength of Glass by Flexor/Bending, ASTM (American Society of Testing Materials) C-158 4-Point Bend or ASTM D 790 -3-Point Bend. The Mechanical Strength by 3-Point Bend is the customized test in the ROLAGS Standard.

These tests are and have been publicly available for many years on Ultra Bond's Website.

Supreme Court of Ohio, Cullen v State Farm- Ultra Bond's scientific windshield repair resin tests were used by State Farm to show a windshield repair met the required pre-loss condition of 100% new laminated glass strength.

07/31/2025

Ultra Bond v Safelite - Ultra Bond's victory against Safelite by the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Ruling is a victory for industry competitors and consumers. The decision, "Opens the door to a broader standard on false advertising lawsuits moving forward. As a result companies may think twice before deceiving consumers if they believe a competitor or industry peer may be adversely affected by it. Consumers come away from this decision as indirect winners", says the Ohio State Law Journal.

08/16/2024

Dear Ultra Bond User,

In our Blog of May 2024 we discussed how insurance payments for windshield repair are less than they were two decades ago when the cost of replacements have doubled and quadrupled.

Many Ultra Bond technicians are not dealing with the deception, price fixing and steering that goes along with filing a windshield repair insurance claim with their customers - so they are having the consumer pay them directly and then the consumer goes to their insurance company to be reimbursed.

In our last email we gave you a document to give to your insured customer when Safelite is the TPA so that they do not get short-paid. We have had no reports of the consumer not being paid or short-paid for the "Fair and Reasonable" rate of Safelite's windshield repair rates of $169 for one chip repair, $249 for two chip repairs and $289 for three chip repairs and for long cracks.

We now have two more documents, one generic for any TPA or Insurance Company and one for Long Crack Repairs.

Below is the link for the documents for you to download and print to give to your insured customer to give to their agent or whoever they are dealing with so that they do not get Short-Paid.

https://www.ultrabond.com/insured-request-for-reimbursement-for-a-repair

Your Ally,

Richard Campfield

Here is a document for the consumer to give to their insurance company or TPA to get reimbursed for a windshield repair.

07/17/2024

Viscosity, Does it Matter - Part 2

Windshield Repair Resins and Super Glues are both acrylic glues

This is from Krazy Glue:

Krazy Glue and Extra Strength Gel Krazy Glue are both cyanoacrylate adhesives, commonly known as super glues. However, there are some differences between them:
1. Ingredients:
o Krazy Glue: Made from methyl cyanoacrylate.
o Extra Strength Gel Krazy Glue: Also made from methyl cyanoacrylate, but with a gel formula.
2. Bonding Strength:
o Krazy Glue: Slightly weaker bonding strength.
o Extra Strength Gel Krazy Glue: Offers stronger bonding due to its gel consistency.
3. Consistency and Drying Time:
o Krazy Glue: Has a thinner consistency and dries faster.
o Extra Strength Gel Krazy Glue: The gel formula provides better control, especially on vertical surfaces.
4. Heat and Water Resistance:
o Krazy Glue: Lower heat and water resistance.
o Extra Strength Gel Krazy Glue: Offers higher heat and water resistance.
In summary, if you need a quick, precise bond, go for regular Krazy Glue. For stronger, more flexible bonds, choose Extra Strength Gel Krazy Glue.

1.) Adhesive Strength and Type
When buying the strongest Krazy Glue, consider the adhesive strength and type that is appropriate for your project. It's important to know the maximum bonding strength, which is usually measured in pounds per square inch (PSI). The product’s psi rating should match or exceed the strength requirements of your task.

My Comment – windshield repairs should exceed the requirements of the insurance policy which is pre-loss condition or 100%. If you use Ultra Bond then you know your repairs are over 100%. If you don't and you do not know where your repairs are at, we do free testing at our lab.

07/16/2024

Get Paid Your Price. Get paid 200-400% more for your repairs by not filing the claim with your customer. We have added two more documents for you to give to your insured customer so that they get reimbursed without being short-paid. One is generic for any insurance company or TPA and one for long cracks.
https://www.ultrabond.com//insured-request-for-reimbursement-for-a-repair

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07/15/2024

Viscosity – Does it Matter?
Adhesive Chemistry- UV Acrylic adhesives are comprised of three primary components: (1) Photoinitiator, (2) Monomer, and (3) Oligomer (resin). The photoinitiator triggers the curing process when it is exposed to light energy of the appropriate wavelength. The Monomer component in the formulation is near water thin and primarily impacts the degree of adhesion to the substrate (glass). The Oligomer is thicker and provides most of the post-cure mechanical properties such as strength, hardness, elongation, elasticity, shrinkage control, cohesion, durability and bond to the PVB etc. An oligomer is a custom-made intermediate molecule that turns into a polymer, also called a giant molecule upon curing. Oligomer is much thicker than monomers and increases viscosity. The higher the viscosity the higher the oligomer content. OLIGOMER content should be your priority with chips and cracks.
FLOW - Centipoise (CPS) is the rate of flow of a liquid. The lower the CPS number, the faster the rate of flow - water for example is zero. But the lower the CPS, the lower the oligomer content, along with lower strength and its ability to withstand stress without yielding. So, what does this mean to windshield repairing- The higher the viscosity the stronger the resin. This is true of all adhesives. Krazy Glue / Super Glue for example are acrylic adhesives. They have Regular water thin glue and Extra Strength Gell- written right on the tube and package. Windshield chip resins lower than 40 cps are mostly all monomer and do not have enough oligomer to restore the windshield to 100% new laminated glass strength or meet the insurance policy requirement to the consumer of pre-loss condition in most repair systems. A repair system consists of the (1) resin, (2) tool-injector (3) tool-holding structure, (4) methods to fill, such as flexing, (5) curing method CUP or no CUP, (6) curing light intensity and (7) curing light uniformity. Each of which affects the outcome.
If you have FLOW as your priority to fill stone-breaks, then you have an outdated tool. (1) An injector with sufficient vacuum and pressure will force the wicking and deeper wetting into the glass with thicker resins-more oligomer. That happens more efficiently with an O-ring sealed piston because they have more vacuum and more pressure to inject thicker resins. (2) If you must manually flex legs with a 15cps, 18cps or 20 cps resin you are fighting your tools holding structure. If you must pull out the piston and stick a probe down onto the impact point to flex (apply compression) the break open or remove air bubbles, that is your holding structure not suppling flex/compression on the break but causing tension instead of pure compression to the break area (pulling up on the glass). This comes from your holding structure’s shape, suction cup durometer (stiffness), suction cup size and suction cup placement.
At our shop we repair chips with 50-100 cps resin all with ROLAGS or ASTM D790 tests scores of 110%, 115% and 136% new laminated glass strength. I have not had to flex a leg since I made the First Flexing Bridge ever made in 2017 - the Wonder Bar Bridge. My technician Brian does the same and reports 95% less manually flexing as does other users.
OLIGOMER should be your priority with chips and cracks, not FLOW.

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07/12/2024

Ultra Bond & Richard Campfield v Safelite Trial Set for Summer 2025

It will have taken 11 years since Ultra Bond and Richard Campfield filed a federal lawsuit against Safelite for lying to consumers and insurance companies about repairing long cracks in windshields which Campfield has a dozen patents on. Safelite, it is estimated has spent over $10 million trying to avoid facing Richard Campfield in front of a jury.

https://www.ultrabond.com/safelite-vs-ultra-bond

03/12/2024

Standard Test Method for Strength of Glass

Windshields (float glass), Annealed Glass (windshields), Laminated glass (windshields), like other materials, undergo testing to evaluate their mechanical properties. The strength tests used by all glass manufacturers for all glass products are the Standard Test Method for Strength of Glass by Flexure, such as ASTM C158 and ASTM D790, which provides insights into how materials behave under uniaxial bending stress (both tension and compression). These tests provide crucial information for ensuring the safety and reliability of automotive glass.1

The Court Ruling challenging the efficacy of windshield repair in Cullen v State Farm which was the class action against State Farm claiming windshield repair did not restore to pre-loss condition. Pre-Loss Condition is 100% new auto glass strength and that is the contractual obligation the insurance company has to the consumer, “to indemnify their loss and to restore it to pre-loss condition.” This is also your duty as windshield repair technician.

State Farm produced a study of Ultra Bond repairs tested to ASTM Standard Test Method for Strength of Glass by Flexure with a score of 100% new glass strength to help win the case. State Farm did not use Novus, Delta, Magnibond Resin, or any self-proclaimed experts in any Facebook Group. They used Ultra Bond/Richard Campfield products. Ultra Bond tests all its products individually and as a system. A windshield repair system has 6 parts all of which affect the final strength of a repair: (1) holding structure/bridge, (2) injector, (3) resin, (4) methods to fill, (5) curing method and (6) curing light. Ultra Bond tests all 6 parts to auto glass industry standards and court recognized standard tests AND WE DISCLOSE THOSE TESTS RESULTS. Anyone in this group that has questions about an Ultra Bond product can go on our website and see the tests results. If any of you want your system or product tested, we will do that for you at no cost. NOTE: Standard auto industry recognized tests such as the tests in the ROLAGS that I have done in my own lab have been held up in federal court as admissible evidence.

In 1994 it was recommended that Windshield Repair Manufacturers test their product to the same flexural bending tests as new windshields in the United States Windshield Repair Guidelines (these are the test State Farm used to prove pre-loss condition) and in the 2007, 2014 and 2022 ROLAGS. Other windshield repair standards such as the British Standard and the Australian/New Zealand Standard also use the Mechanical Strength by Flexural 3-Point Bend test to compare repaired laminated auto glass to new laminated auto glass. The 2014 ROLAGS tests have been recognized and validated in two federal courts in Ultra Bond /Campfield v Safelite. The federal district court ruling states that, “no matter how well a technician is trained or how high the customer satisfaction rating is it does not prove the windshield repair is safe or can pass the ROLAGS”. That means that if someone is training others using an untested repair system or using a tested repair system that does not restore the strength, then the training is invalid, and customers/consumers cannot tell whether a repair has restored 45% or 100%. I have proved this in court with Safelite repairs and I could prove it with any self-proclaimed experts that have no evidence of what their repairs are doing to the safety glass they are repairing.