Windshield Crack Repair Kits

The short answer is no! Not all windshield crack repair kits that you find on the Internet work. In fact, the majority of the vendors online are just salesmen looking to make a profit. 

Windshield Crack Repair was invented long ago in the 1970s by Novus and overtime more and more people got into the market because of its easy money. Easy money has never worked out well for the end-sure and or customers. 

Tragically, the majority of the brands today do drivers all over America wrong. The majority of the windshield repair kits and windshield repair services put the customer at risk. What you don't know is that windshield is the 3rd most important safety device in the car. 

The windshield is for keeping roof support so you don't get crushed during a rollover. Windshields are made not to shatter so that serious injury does not occur from the airbag or other projectiles striking or piercing the windshield. Windshields are placed under factory default tension by design to protect the driver and its occupants From Safelite to GlassWeld and Delta Kits and many other vendors, they are actually selling kits and repairing windshields with a false sense of safety security. 

How do you know if the windshield repair kits work? Well, the first obvious sign will be when the crack or chip in the windshield returns or starts to spread. Why does this happen? Well, as mentioned above Delta Kits and Glass Weld sell their windshield crack repair technicians watery thin resins and resins that are not structurally adhesive. Structural adhesives are important because the only way a windshield crack repair kit will work is if the tools are designed to maximize a structural adhesive resin to bond with the windshield when curing. This brings an important point here about why diy or do-it-yourself windshield crack repair kits do not work. They don't even cure the chip or crack when repaired. You will see Rain-X and many other kits from AutoZone claiming to fix small chips or cracks.

However, you cannot repair a windshield chip or crack without using commercial grade uv light to cure the resin after having successfully injected resin into the windshield. Read This Blog Post Here: Facts You Should Know About Windshield Repair Resins

The best windshield crack repair kits are those that accomplish restoring windshields to pre-factory strength! When comparing windshield crack repair kits, most don't know that the windshield is one of the most important safety devices aside from the seat-belt, airbag, pillar, and roof. 

A crack in a windshield whether a long crack or a small rock chip will comprise a windshield's safety over time. Most people leave their windshields unrepaired and this is bad for two reasons:

1. The crack or chip will spread

2. Market is compromised with Safelite replacing windshields giving a false sense of safety, click here to read more about this

A windshield cannot be replaced safely as it comes from the factory. Your vehicle's manufacturer uses a special machine that with the right tension makes sure the windshield does not come unbuckled. Safelite and many other windshield replacement service shops claim that they use a glue that will bond your windshield. For the most part, the glue will hold the windshield in place, until you get into a car accident. 

Junkyards are full of vehicles that have buckled windshields and in most cases, this leads to a really bad injury and sometimes death. 

If you are trying to make a decision on a windshield crack repair kit and you are a DIY or do it yourself, then you want to consider Ultra Bond, because we are the only brand that uses the correct resin that will indeed bond with the windshield and in our kit we also include a portable UV curing light that is crucial in making sure that your resin cures and bonds with the windshield. 

Our windshield crack repair kits are Federal Saftey Approved and have the market's highest ASTM Flexural Strength rating, and thus ensuring when you fix a stone chip or rock chip and even a small crack under 6 inches your windshield will be stronger than a windshield when repaired!

When you shop, even if you don't purchase with us find a windshield crack repair shop that fixes your windshield and is using structural adhesive resin and proper tools to restore your windshield.

Yes, you can fix your own windshield with an Ultra Bond DIY Windshield Crack Repair Kit, however, we don't recommend it. 

Your windshield is too an important safety device for you to work on without understanding key windshield science. Why is this important? Well, the windshield crack repair business is mostly built on resin. Windshield repair resins is a situational business and you need to understand the environmental temperatures and know when to use what resin to focus on maintaining windshield safety. 

Many Ultra Bond windshield repair technicians are also ROLAGs certified and trained professionals that understand how to do things like 

1. Drilling, When To Drill and When Not To Drill

2. Tapping Your Windshield, Takes Training To Get Right

3. Reading Atmospheric Conditions For Best Resin 

4. Windshield Crack Repair Process and Tool Configuration To Ensure Resin Bonding With Your Windshield

Without these and many other points with windshield crack repair and or windshield chip repair, you will provide yourself a false sense of security, and most likely have a returned crack and or chip.

If you get repairing your windshield wrong and it becomes unrepairable you will be facing a windshield replacement and this is the last thing you want. 

Click here to watch a 20/20 video special about the dangers of windshield replacement and thus why you want to take repairing your windshield important and ultimately leaving that a trained and professional windshield repair technician.

When considering safety first, the max length on a windshield crack is about 12 inches and 14 inches. 

Why can't you repair over 14 inches? Well in most cases the length of a crack in your windshield grows to 18 and 24 inches because it's left unrepaired. 

There are some windshield repair technicians that claim to fix long cracks beyond 14 inches but in reality, those repairs won't bond with the windshield due to debris like dirt that collects in the windshield. 

Windshield repair resin needs to be totally clear of any debris to ensure a strong bond during curing. Although Ultra Bond offers pre-treatment chemicals for windshield repair to reinforce windshield strength, it cannot eat corrosives and debris.

Click Here to Learn More About Long Crack Windshield Repair

The answer is no! SuperGlue is an adhesive, but the compounds in it do nothing to bond monomers into a polymer which is needed to ensure resin can bond with the windshield.

The monomer chaining is not something that superglue can do. 

No, nail polish will not work with a windshield. The only windshield repair resin is chemically engineered to bond and restore windshield strength upon repair. 

For the same reason that super glue will not work in repairing a small chip or a crack, they chemically have different molecules. 

Windshield Restoration is about resin and windshield strength. In order to repair a windshield properly, you need a professional windshield repair technician.

The only way to keep your windshield crack from getting worse is to repair it, not replace it, sooner than later. 

There are no short-cuts or conditions that you can use to keep a windshield crack from growing and or a stone break star legs from growing and thus making a repair harder and putting you at risk of having your windshield replaced. 

This is largely due to how a windshield is made, which from the factory is comprised of three layers. The PVB layer, the middle, layer is often the layer that gets comprised from a stone or some object striking the windshield. 

A windshield comes under windshield stress and when a rock hits the windshield it causes the PVB layer to release stored energy and as a result a running crack. 

So as you can imagine a piece of the tab cannot reach the laminate aka pvb layer and tap cannot eliminate tension in a glass and thus restoring your windshields strength. 

Ultra Bond is the only windshield crack repair manufacturer that develops windshield resins and windshield crack repair tools that work to restore your windshield's pre-factory strength. 

No a cracked windshield does not affect your insurance. In fact, included in your insurance premium each year, you already paid for the ability for your windshield to be repaired. 

Never let your insurance company talk you into a repair. Your windshield in most cases can be repaired for $89 to $69 and all you have to is call your claim in. 

In most cases, it's better for your windshield crack repair shop to call on your behalf to your insurance to get your claim in and paid by the insurance!

As mentioned above here about nail polish, super glue, and tape, non of these items should be used to fix a crack or a chip in a windshield. 

Why? Well simply put, they do nothing to restore windshield strength and maintain your vehicles saftey. 

Your windshield is a very important safety mechanism that will keep you and your vehicle occupants safe.