clay1 Posted May 22, 2007 Posted May 22, 2007 Noticed some tiny chips in the windshield (I do a lot of highway driving, but always steer clear of being behind trucks). Anyway the auto glass place said no way to fill or polish them out. They are tiny but a cluster of three are in the filed of vision of my left eye - worst with solar glare. Don't want to have a windshield replacement on a new car of 2K - probably will end up causing some other issue. Oh well just venting...
lenore Posted May 22, 2007 Posted May 22, 2007 Noticed some tiny chips in the windshield (I do a lot of highway driving, but always steer clear of being behind trucks). Anyway the auto glass place said no way to fill or polish them out. They are tiny but a cluster of three are in the filed of vision of my left eye - worst with solar glare. Don't want to have a windshield replacement on a new car of 2K - probably will end up causing some other issue. Oh well just venting... Yes,unless there is a crack that penetrates into the sublayer pretty much can do nothing, that is what my glass company said as well...
clay1 Posted May 23, 2007 Author Posted May 23, 2007 Noticed some tiny chips in the windshield (I do a lot of highway driving, but always steer clear of being behind trucks). Anyway the auto glass place said no way to fill or polish them out. They are tiny but a cluster of three are in the filed of vision of my left eye - worst with solar glare. Don't want to have a windshield replacement on a new car of 2K - probably will end up causing some other issue. Oh well just venting... Yes,unless there is a crack that penetrates into the sublayer pretty much can do nothing, that is what my glass company said as well... Actually went to the glass place (Diamond Glass/alos called Settles and also called Triumph Auto Glass) this AM and they have some resin that they put on and then covered with a small square piece of plastic and put it under some sort of UV light of about ten minutes then peeled it off - scraped off the residue and polished it. It is much better - not perfect. They actually didn't charge me at all. The guy told me to try it out and if it was good enough for me then great or else he would put a new LEXUS windshield in for me. He did tell me that his friend has a IS 350 and has had to replace the windshield 3 x. Apparently there is not much of a curve on the windshield and it tends to catch stone chips. He also mentioned using RainX on the windshield to offset some of the chipping as it is basically a wax. So will have to see. I know the second I replace it - driving 600 miles a week it's just going to happen again!.....
lenore Posted May 23, 2007 Posted May 23, 2007 Noticed some tiny chips in the windshield (I do a lot of highway driving, but always steer clear of being behind trucks). Anyway the auto glass place said no way to fill or polish them out. They are tiny but a cluster of three are in the filed of vision of my left eye - worst with solar glare. Don't want to have a windshield replacement on a new car of 2K - probably will end up causing some other issue. Oh well just venting... Yes,unless there is a crack that penetrates into the sublayer pretty much can do nothing, that is what my glass company said as well... Actually went to the glass place (Diamond Glass/alos called Settles and also called Triumph Auto Glass) this AM and they have some resin that they put on and then covered with a small square piece of plastic and put it under some sort of UV light of about ten minutes then peeled it off - scraped off the residue and polished it. It is much better - not perfect. They actually didn't charge me at all. The guy told me to try it out and if it was good enough for me then great or else he would put a new LEXUS windshield in for me. He did tell me that his friend has a IS 350 and has had to replace the windshield 3 x. Apparently there is not much of a curve on the windshield and it tends to catch stone chips. He also mentioned using RainX on the windshield to offset some of the chipping as it is basically a wax. So will have to see. I know the second I replace it - driving 600 miles a week it's just going to happen again!..... Yea the resin doesnt have a great deal to attach it self, where as if the pit goes to the sub layer the resin can grab between layers...
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