Windshield Repair Service Video

Windshield repair fills chips and short cracks with a clear resin before they spread across the glass. It restores strength to the laminated layers and keeps a small rock strike from becoming a full replacement. This video shows what a repairable chip looks like and how the resin is injected and cured under UV light.

A windshield is two layers of glass bonded to a plastic interlayer. When a rock hits, the outer layer fractures and leaves an air pocket inside the chip. The repair draws that air out with a vacuum bridge and fills the void with resin under pressure.

A fresh star chip, bullseye, or short crack is usually repairable if it is handled quickly. Cold Grant County mornings followed by a hard defrost flex the glass and can walk a small chip into a running crack. A crack in the driver's sightline can also be flagged during a state vehicle inspection, so it pays to fix chips early.

Longer cracks, damage directly in the driver's view, or chips packed with dirt and moisture often need full glass replacement instead. Gravel kicked up on Highway 17 and I-90 is the most common source of new chips. Harvest traffic on rural routes adds loaded farm trucks to the mix.

Affordable Automotive Services inspects the chip under proper lighting and tells you honestly whether a repair will hold. Not every chip is a candidate, and quoting one that will fail wastes your money. Windshield repair is part of our preventive maintenance services, where small problems are cheaper to catch early.

When repair is viable, the work takes under an hour. The resin cures flush with the surface, and the glass is safe to drive on right away. The repair may still show faintly, but it stops the damage from spreading.

On many vehicles, the windshield also supports the roof and helps the passenger airbag deploy correctly. Keeping the glass intact protects more than your view.

Call Affordable Automotive Services at (509) 764-0000 to have a chip or crack evaluated. Drivers from Ephrata, Othello, and Royal City count on the best auto repair in Moses Lake to fix chips before the next cold snap.