BANG! Dump truck throws rock, hits windshield...
My wife called me at 7:45am today, on her way to work with the tiny tot. She said "write this down; Basham Hauling, phone number is 539 something..."
Me: "Huh? What're you talking about?"
Her: "I just got hit by a rock from that truck, and it broke the windshield."
Me: "Oh crap."
So I called my insurance guy and left him a message. It's not Geico, and they're not there around the clock. Checked in on the board archives on history with repairs/replacements. Still hadn't seen the car. Called the wife back and we decided to meet at lunch for a car swap. I saw it and thought, ugh, man, that's pretty bad.
Arranged to have the glass guy come by my workplace and take a look. He came by, saw it, and said that "line of sight" is anywhere the wipers sweep, and that they normally don't want to do repairs there. I rolled my dice, and we did the repair. Total time; 20 minutes He cleaned it out, put on the vacuum pump, put in the resin, let it set, put on the mylar for about 5 minutes with the UV lamp curing it, then pulled it all off. Scraped off the excess with the razor blade, and I was thrilled with the results.
Is it brand new? No. Is anything else on the car? No. I've got other worse spots on the windshield than this, although it was pretty nasty before.
Big push for not having it replaced? My insurance is $250 deductible on glass replacement. Repair deductibles are waived. So, I'm shopping for new insurance next week...
See attached pics. The location in the "after" pic is just above the yellow container, kinda smudgy. It really is an impressive fix. You can just barely make out a little spidering from the inside. Drove it tonight, and it is not obtrusive to me. It'll do.
Also, we had a visitor at the BMW CCA meeting tonight. Web liked it, but was afraid it was going to run him over.
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