Extremely small chips

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Extremely pocket-sized fries

I take a new accord that already has a few chips in the windshield. They are and then minor they would normally non be worth mentioning, simply the latest 1 is directly in my line of sight and is very bothersome. Information technology'due south near the size and shape of a grain of rice and only virtually the thickness of a couple or 3 sheets of paper in depth. Simply it'southward very obvious when it's directly in your line of sight.

I tried a kit by permatex that was simply totally worthless. granted, like most other kits it'due south geared towards substantial fries like bullseyes and such. But this kit didn't fifty-fifty have a risk because afterwards the recommended corporeality of fourth dimension for drying in the sunday at eighty degrees, it not simply didn't dry out simply was yet every bit liquid as h2o when i pulled it off. It never even dried slightly.

I have looked online for solutions and didn't detect anything till i found this forum. If anyone has a proposition for me i'd be very gratefull. I'm not looking for a fix that will hide it 100%, (tho that would exist nice!) just any improvment in hiding it would be corking. Why is it when you get a new car thats when all the dents and other such incidents occur? :eusa_booh (got my rear hood keyed at one week !)

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Re: Extremely small chips

Post by boyd » December 21st, 2004, 8:58 am

Dazco. Chalk information technology up as a lessoned learned. Recall ... cheap is expensive.
Pray it doesn't continue to crack. I myself do not mess with chips that have others resins in them. A possibility would be for someone to drill the terminate of the pocket-size crevice and fill the resin back. The problem you've created is yous have "clogged up" our avenue to drill and fill. It can be done. Find a tech in your expanse. Tell him what
you;ve done.
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Re: Extremely small chips

Mail service by dazco » December 21st, 2004, 9:59 am

Pray it doesn't proceed to crack

I don't think i made myself clear. This is not a crack or a bullseye or any of that. In fact you'd exist very hard pressed to meet it unless you sit backside the wheel and look straight ahead. The depth is more like information technology's been etched than chipped. I have yet to own a car that didn't have dozens of chip like this later on a few years on the road. My former civic has dozens at three years one-time. And then i retrieve you lot're not familiar with the type of harm (for lack of a better word) i'm talking virtually here. If it wasn't in my line of sight i probably wouldn't always know it was in that location.

I demand to know if theres something i can put on it and then shave off with a razor when dry that volition at to the lowest degree arrive a bit less noticable.

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Re: Extremely minor chips

Post by screenman » December 21st, 2004, 10:19 am

Dazco why not telephone call a repairman in. I know exactly what sort of damage you are talking virtually and it volition be very easy for someone who knows what they are doing to repair information technology.

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Re: Extremely modest chips

Post past Delta Kits » December 21st, 2004, 10:22 am

I recall you're talking about a surface chip. This is just more or less a divot rather than a full on break.

In that location's really nothing you can do for those beyond temporary repairs. Well, let's just say that I wouldn't recommend anyone fixing those and guaranteeing them for life like normal chips. What you lot could have had someone do before the Permatex was scratch it a bit, moisture it with resin, and then put a cap of pit resin over it, cure and scrape.

Those aren't repairs that can be charged to insurance, since there is no danger of spreading anyhow, but cosmetically, if you lot want information technology stock-still and are willing to pay for information technology, i'm sure someone could have done it.

Now that you lot've got Permatex though, information technology'due south probably non going to piece of work, although y'all could have someone come out and take a expect for yous.

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Re: Extremely small fries

Post by StarQuest » December 21st, 2004, 12:02 pm

Dazco,

Y'all really take only 4 choices.

i) Follow Screenmans or Delta Kits adice and accept a tech try to pit fill up and smooth. This will help some but you'll still see a blemish.

2) Call your insurance amanuensis tell them your problem and see if they'll offer a replacement. Skillful luck with that ane!

3) Place a pillow on your seat, which will change your line of site!

iv) Simply just learn to alive with information technology :-)

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Re: Extremely small chips

Mail by dazco » Dec 21st, 2004, 2:eighteen pm

The permatex is not in it. I'm non sure if you lot all are maxim that because it's come in contact with permatex that resin won't adhere or if yous're thinking it'southward filled. Just when i removed the permatex rig the fluid was withal like water and i swabbed it out with an booze patch so theres no fill in it. So will resin work, and if so can i get it locally at a hardware shop or if not, where?

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Re: Extremely small chips

Post by Delta Kits » December 21st, 2004, 4:16 pm

If in that location is no Permatex in information technology, call a local windshield repair technician and tell them you have a surface pit that needs to exist filled.

Information technology's not a permanent solution though, since in that location is not much surface for resin to attach to.

You will desire to use a professional person grade resin though, not hardware shop stuff. And then, you could certainly buy resin to do it yourself, but it would probably exist more than toll effective to telephone call someone. No professional course resin supplier, including Delta Kits, sells pit resin in unmarried use quantities. Well, that I know of anyway.

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Re: Extremely small chips

Post by Bill D » Dec 21st, 2004, 5:21 pm

Did you lot cover the resin to cutting off the air supply? If not, cover with a small piece of Saran wrap or scotch record with the shiny side downward. Expose to sunlight for v minutes, peel off cover,shave off hardened resin with a single edge razor held at 90 degrees, and shine with some motorcar wax.
If this doesn't piece of work, find someone sitting nether a repair tent and requite them $x.
As simple as your scrap harm is, it is in the acute area and I myself wouldn't touch information technology unless we were friends, and so I'd prove you how to practise it.

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Re: Extremely minor chips

Postal service by glassdoctor » December 21st, 2004, 6:07 pm

Dazco, I don't know why you lot got some of the replies here...

A surface fleck can be improved every bit you accept asked for. Information technology won't be 100%, but it should exist much less annoying once filled and polished.

Every bit mentioned, surface repairs won't last forever. They will lose some clarity over time... couple years or so.

Telephone call a couple local pros and see if you tin can work out a cheap cash deal. It'south probably a five minute task.

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