N / A? Do you immediately have this one melody in your head? Falling rocks? Car glass? At least that's how I feel, I have immediately "Carglass repairs, Carglass replaces”As a humming melody in your head. And not just because CARGLASS a reliable and long-time advertising partner from mein-auto-blog is. No. It is simply their advertisement. We have known the melody for years! But it shouldn't be about the annoying (sorry, that's how it is) advertising by CARGLASS, but the question of when you can repair a stone chip in the windshield - and when the whole pane has to be removed.
Rockfall: When is the replacement of the disk necessary?
According to an ADAC study, glass damage is the most common casualty case for the hull insurer. 2.3 million claims and over 1.1 billions of euros in costs. So you may ask the question, if a repair of the disc is not more meaningful and, above all, cheaper. And cheaper affects us all in the end. Because insurance does not give away anything! They get the money back from us, the insured.
Better fix than replace? When may be repaired?
[=” ” ]Basically: The damage must not be in the direct field of vision of the driver, the stone chip must be less than five mm in diameter and the distance to the edge of the disc must be at least 10 centimeters. The driver's field of vision is an area roughly the size of an A4 sheet of paper, directly in front of the driver.Rockfalls that can be repaired should be repaired as soon as possible. The longer the disk is damaged, the greater the risk of a crack. The possibility of the disc breaking is also the reason why the chippings have to be 10 cm away from the edge.
Save money by repairing windows
There are hardly any cars on the streets whose windscreen is not glued. Here, the exchange is always a considerable and the costs are correspondingly high. But that does not have to be exactly that. The comprehensive insurance covers glass damage, but in many cases a deductible for the owner remains. The Repair of the stone chip can therefore be much more useful and cheaper.
Free windscreen wiper at CARGLASS experts
Even as I am writing this article, a press release comes in: At CARGLASS, customers get the windshield wipers from the BOSCH brand free of charge - as soon as the windshield is replaced or repaired there. (More information)
Image rights: The graphics for the disc repair comes from the ADAC eV
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