Why you Should Repair the Rock Chips on your Windshield

So, it just happened, a rock chip on your windshield. Unfortunately, a chipped windshield is a regular occurrence when owning a vehicle. Chips usually occur when other cars fling debris up onto your windshield or rocks fall off trucks that haven’t taken the care and attention to clean off their bumpers and flatbeds, which then impact your windshield. Even if it is a minor chip is not something to be ignored.

Chips can become unsightly and grow due to several reasons, temperature changes, moisture in your rock chip, movement/flexing of your vehicle (think of those lovely spring pot holes all over our roads), sometimes no reason, or the rock was a boulder and it starts cracking immediately. Once a chip grows into a crack, you may be sacrificing the structural integrity and it can no longer be repaired, and you will need to replace the windshield.

There are many other reasons why you should fix your rock chips. Chips can obstruct your view, can be unsightly, and even cause a glare in the bright sunlight that may impede your vision.

Safety issues, not many people know, but a windshield contributes to a vehicle’s structural integrity. In a crash, the windshield prevents you from being thrown out of the car, supports the roof and helps the airbags deploy properly. IF your vehicle is involved in a roll over situation the windshield helps prevent the roof from caving in.

Traffic violation, several laws in Canada cover the condition of windshields. If you have a cracked or damaged windshield, a police officer may give you notice to repair your windshield and even a ticket or fine. Fines can run up to $500 and may include towing charges should the Police Officer deem the damage to be unsafe to drive.

The bottom line, be proactive in repairing your windshield rock chips. A $35 repair can save you hundreds (or thousands) down the road on a windshield replacement. Come into Easy Auto Glass, and our experts can get those pesky rock chips repaired for you.

Just a reminder, when you have your Windshield replaced at Easy Auto Glass, it includes our FREE rock chip program, on the windshield we install. (See our web page for details, or call our Shop.)

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Easy Auto Glass’s Free Rock Chip Repair Program Guidelines and Answers

In March of 2016 we became the 1^st Canadian Auto Glass company to provide FREE Rock Chip Repairs on any installed windshield done at our location in store.

It’s that Easy! There are NO timelines or limited time specials you, as our customer, need to be worried about. Phone and book in for an appointment for the repair and we will take care of the rest.

Once we have replaced your windshield in store, whether by customer pay or insurance company (not mobile installations) we will repair the rock chips for the life of the windshield if YOU (the customer) are the original owner and the windshield we (Easy Auto Glass) have installed. We record which brand of manufacturers windshield was used at time of installation. (Original Equipment, Original Equipment Equivalent)
The FREE Rock Chip Repair Program is NOT transferable to another individual or to be used as a selling tool if the vehicle is sold or traded in.
The FREE Rock Chip Repair Program DOES apply to immediate family members living in the same residence using the vehicle. (ie: spouse, children, etc.)

If we at Easy deem the rock chip is beyond repair ( structural integrity of the windshield ) or if the windshield is cracked, we DO have the right to cease any further repairs on the windshield. We will attempt every course of action to save the windshield but at a certain point in time there is only so much our trained technicians can do. Customer safety is the 1^st
If the windshield is changed by another company, such as a body shop, dealership, hail repair company, the FREE Rock Chip Repair program ceases to be offered on said vehicle.
We provide at time of pick up the EASY Rock Chip Repair Stickers. Once you get a rock chip, cover the rock chip on the OUTSIDE of the windshield, like you would a band aid on a cut, to keep the dirt and moisture out of the chip. Water and dirt getting into the chip itself can alter how the repair structurally turns out and for clarity. If you don’t have EASY Stickers than Scotch tape or clear packaging tape will do in a pinch.

The program speaks for itself. We’re doing our part to keep the windshield in your vehicle as long as we can, and we all know that can be challenging living in Calgary. Thousands of customers whether it’s their personal vehicle or fleet companies, use the FREE Rock Chip Program.

We’ve done the hard work so now it’s up to you to come back to see us, and why wouldn’t you?

The repairs are FREE!