ALL ABOUT REPAIR

You’ve finally purchased your car after spending a lot of time considering various options. After completing your purchase and acquiring your vehicle you vowed to yourself to always take proper preventive measures to avoid damages. As careful as you may be, the world around you does not have the same consideration. Here atWhitby Auto Glass, the most common repair we make is to chips in the windshield. These small chips can be caused by anything small and durable that’s launched towards your windshield, causing small damage. Usually small damages like these are over looked because they seem insignificant, but these small issues can turn into a bigger problem in the future.

Fixing a chip in your windshield is quite costly, but it is something to take care of as soon as possible. When this small damage occurs on your windshield, it breaks the sturdy structure around it allowing for a larger crack to happen. Especially if you live in an environment that it snows or rains quite often, as it does here in Canada, you can find yourself with a larger crack than you started off with in a shorter amount of time. The condensation that enters the broken surface introduces an expansion from within. The larger the crack, the more expensive it would be to fix the problem. The longer you leave this small damage exposed to all different elements around you, your car is left exposed to a higher chance of worse damages caused to the windshield. Another problem that can occur from the growth of a chipped windshield is impaired visibility. The seriousness of this point depends on the location of the damage but any obstruction, no matter how large or small, can cause a distraction.

 There are many benefits to fixing a chipped windshield as soon as you can.

 ·         Repairing a chip is much less expensive than repairing a crack. As tedious it is to invest in such a small repair, you’re saving money by taking immediate action.

·         Repairing a chipped windshield takes very little time. As drivers, we plan our daily plans with the idea of having a car to complete our errands with ease. Having to leave your car in the garage for an extensive amount of time in a strong inconvenience.

·         Your insurance company can easily cover a repair this small. Insurance companies, as they are a business, want to avoid giving out money unnecessarily. They know that cost of a chipped windshield is less of cost for them than having to replace a whole windshield.

·         Repairing it as soon as possible, you avoid further damages. As we mentioned earlier, allowing condensation to enter the chip, you’re inviting a larger damage to occur. Because we live in Canada, where the weather changes quite often, this is a very important point to consider since the chances are extremely high of this happening.

·         You’ll be safer driving. No matter how much experience driving, having an obstructed view is an impairment and a hazard. You want to be as safe as possible and take all the proper precautions to do so.

Although there are ways to do the repair yourself with the proper auto glass repair kits, you want to make sure that the repair is done properly. If you have any doubts, take your car to your trusted auto repair shop to perform the task quickly and efficiently.