Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

It's all downhill from there...

 

That's how I read "Choose Your Own Adventure" books...

 

My attempt at a windshield star chip repair...

Before:

Because it was bigger than a quarter (just), safelite wouldn't attempt a repair and quoted $250 for a windshield (installed). A good price, but I figured no harm in trying a DIY fix first.

I used the process shown in this video:


I didn't do nearly as good of a job, but my chip was much bigger.

After:


After with road background:


If it doesn't get any worse it'll be fine. If it was in my normal line of sight I would probably find it annoying...

That said, I could do a better job if I had it to do again.

Improvement #1: My chip was big enough I should have done the vacuum step, then refilled the pedestal with more epoxy, and done the vacuum step again.

Improvement #2: I didn't do a good enough job sealing the pedestal to the adhesive disk so when I went to pressure the epoxy to force it through the cracks, some bled out between the pedestal and disk so the epoxy pressure must therefore have been lower than designed.

Inprovement #3: I didn't knock on my glass quite as hard as in the video.


All in all, worth the $12 even if only for entertainment's sake.

 

True, but I'm self-insured for physical damage. Even if I wasn't, I probably wouldn't bother them over $250 -- would be too afraid they'd jack up my rate $500 next year...