Position decides this more than size does. A chip under a quarter across and outside the area the driver looks through is a $60 to $130 fill that takes about thirty minutes, while the same chip sitting in your sightline is usually a replacement, because even a good repair leaves a faint mark. Comprehensive cover often pays for the fill with no deductible.
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The reason position matters is that a filled chip is not invisible. Resin restores the strength and stops the break travelling, but it leaves a faint blemish where the cavity was, and a faint blemish sitting exactly where your eyes rest at night, with headlights coming the other way down Castor Avenue, is a distraction you will not forgive. Out on the passenger half of the glass nobody notices it again after the first week. That is the whole test, and you can apply it yourself before ringing: sit in your normal driving position and see whether the damage falls inside the area you actually look through.
The fill takes about half an hour. The cavity is cleaned out, the trapped air is drawn off under vacuum so the resin can reach into the legs of the break, resin goes in under pressure, then it is cured hard and polished flush with the glass. You drive away straight afterwards, because there is no bond curing the way there is with a whole windshield. The reason to do it soon rather than eventually is that a chip does not hold still. Around here it gets flexed by the Boulevard's joints twice a day and by a full temperature swing every night on a street with no shade and no shelter, which is exactly the treatment that turns a fillable star into a screen-length crack.
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Oxford Circle drivers collect the two worst inputs for glass in the same week. The Boulevard supplies the stone, thrown at speed out of lanes you cannot avoid, and the neighbourhood supplies the temperature swing, because the blocks are parked solid with no garages and the cars sit out through every frost. That combination is why we would much rather see a chip in October than in January. Half an hour is a short errand from anywhere in Oxford Circle, fifteen minutes down the Boulevard and back out, and the car is never left with us. If you are unsure whether yours is still repairable, describe where it sits and how long the legs are and you will get a straight answer on the phone.
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A quarter is the working rule for a bullseye or a star, and it is about the diameter of the whole damaged area rather than the little crater in the middle. Longer single cracks can sometimes be filled up to a few inches if they are clean, fresh and nowhere near the edge. The rule that overrides all of it is the edge itself: once any leg reaches the band where the urethane grips, the pane is carrying load through a break and resin there is decoration. Describe the size against a coin on the phone and you will get an honest read.
No. Most of the time we can tell from the description on the phone whether you are looking at a $60 to $130 fill or the $250 to $450 range, and if you come in and it turns out to be a replacement, there is nothing to pay for having been told so. What we will not do is take money for filling something that should be replaced. You get the two prices, the reason one applies rather than the other, and the decision stays yours.
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