Hi ! Recently I had my wind shield hit by a small pebble while driving on the freeway, resulting in a tiny pinhole crack. Is there anyone who knows how I can repair it without replacing the whole piece?

Hi ! Recently I had my wind shield hit by a small pebble while driving on the freeway, resulting in a tiny pinhole crack. Is there anyone who knows how I can repair it without replacing the whole piece?

Back in NZ there was a franchise outfit called Novus, and that's all they did, repair small chips & cracks on windscreens. They put a polymer into it, sealed it up, buffed it down, one hour. Car parts shops started carrying a DIY kit that did pretty much the same thing; it's worth looking for and quickly, before it spreads.

You need to be a bit careful here. somew vehicles in Thailand are still dfitted with ZONE TOUGHENED glass - as opposed to laminated.

Check for this....

because apart from being a hazard in a crash they are unpredictable a slight chip can suddenly - with the lightest of taps - turn into a completely shattered windscreen - this is something that you would want to avoid as the shock factor alone is enough to cause a further accident....it's also very messy - you'll be picking out chips of glass from your car for years!

all in all you are much better advised to get a replacememt window in any case - in UK a chip over a certain size even on a laminated screen, will fail the car's roadworthy test. On the laminated screen the crack wil just s;lowly extend across trhe screen.

it's also very messy - you'll be picking out chips of glass from your car for years!

Before you take out the broken screen, put a layer of tape on it and THEN remove the stuff. You will save a lot of work... Picking the chips out of the airducts will kill you

If it happens whilst going along you will have about 20 minutes before the crazing spreads so much that visibility becomes impossible - then trying to puinch a hole in it is where the fun starts.

A laminated screen - and I suggest you specify that for the replacement - whatever the original was, will cost about 5 to 6 thousand baht.