Is a windscreen chip repair legal?
You’ve got a chip in your screen. But is a windscreen chip repair legal? And will one do away with the need for you to get a replacement windscreen? Read on to find out.
Is a windscreen chip repair legal?
The simple answer to that is it depends on where the chip is. There are four zones to a car windscreen, handily called zones A, B, C and D. Zone A is directly in front of the driver and about the width of a steering wheel.
Zone B is split into two. It’s either side of zone A and the parts the windscreen wiper covers. For zone C, look to the area in front of the passenger covered by their wiper; zone D is around the edge but with a 3cm exclusion area around where the screen and car meet.
Each of these zones has a size limit for damage that can be repaired.
What are the size limits for repair?
In zone A, a chip can only have a diameter of 1cm. For zone B it’s 1.5cm, zone C it’s 2.5cm and zone D is 4cm. If the damage exceeds these sizes, the windscreen must be replaced.
Be warned, even small chips expand rapidly. The windscreen is a structural part of the car and movement over bumps make it vibrate and twist. This causes the weakened areas around the chip to expand and rapidly turn into a crack.
As soon as this happens, the windscreen will have to be replaced.
When you see a chip, you may be able to avoid a windshield glass repair claim if you act quickly.
Remember the rule of thumb is as follows:
A windscreen / windshield chip less than 3mm (smaller than a matchstick head) does not usually need to be repaired.
A windscreen / windshield chip less than 25mm (smaller than a £2 coin) is repairable.
A windscreen / windshield chip over 25mm is usually non-repairable.
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