# Windshield Crack

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windshield-crack/236140>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 24, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windshield-crack/236140 "2004-03-24T15:51:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercury)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windshield-crack/236140/21 "2004-03-25T05:33:38Z")

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**Casey1505** , Mesko Glass has fixed three windshields for us in the past 2 years.

I don’t know for sure, but from what I hear they are also very good with insurance.

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**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windshield-crack/236140/22 "2004-03-25T13:41:48Z")

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> [@racinchikki](#):
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> Does crack repair really work? I’d always had the impression that it was simply a stopgap - that eventually the crack would spread anyway, and you’d have to replace the windshield after all. (I ask because I just got a chip taken out of my windshield yesterday, with a few radiating cracks - the whole thing would be covered by a nickel. I don’t want to pay to have the whole thing replaced if I can get away with it, but if it’s going to need to be replaced eventually anyway, I’d rather just get it over with now.)

The crack I repaired never came back. I fixed it about 10 years ago and my brother-in-law is still driving that truck. You wouldn’t see the repair if you didn’t know where to look. The repair package tells what kind of cracks it will and won’t fix.

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