My car appears to be a magnet for disaster. Ok, disaster is probably too strong a word - I'd be really worried otherwise. Anyway, I was driving on the highway on Saturday morning and found myself boxed in behind a truck (there were cars either side of me so I couldn't just change lanes). Next thing I know I hear the bang of something hitting my car, and after a few seconds of swearing and frantic searching, I found a rock chip in the passenger side of the windscreen. Not good.
Yesterday I took it in to get filled in or whatever they do so that the cracks don't spread - I really didn't feel like replacing the windscreen. They did give me a bit of a scare beforehand though when they had a look at the chip - apparently it was nasty (what do you expect when I was driving at about 115km/h into it, and who knows what speed it was travelling at me at...) and there was a chance that when they used the machine to fix it, the windscreen would crack and they'd need to replace it. $109 and half an hour later it was fixed and all good. Still looks the same to me, but apparently they did some fancy stuff involving injecting the cracks with some resin or something like that. I trust them... I have a lifetime guarantee on it anyway so I'll be back if they didn't do it right.
This car is becoming more expensive than I expected. Oh well.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
the windscreen, my only weakness... how did you know?
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I was in the same boat about 3 months ago. I was driving down a winding country lane at about 60mph when a stone or piece of loose gravel from the road flicked up and made a massive crack on the passenger side of the cars windscreen, were talking a foot long.
As soon as I returned home I got on the phone to a friend who pointed me in the direction of Autoglass who were very helpful, gave a fast service and above all quoted me a very nice price. So if anyone has this unfortunate situation I recommend them.
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