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Michael Richardson
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My insurance company (and others, perhaps almost all) want a window to be repaired if the pit/crack is small enough to fit under a dollar bill. So when I had a rock thrown up at my windshield and it resulted in a crack growing 4 inches later that day, they insisted upon having a repair instead of a replacing the entire window.

I am very skeptical of such a crack being successfully repaired, but I assume that their policy has some kind of success rate that makes it worthwhile. The cost of repair is about $60 (completely covered by insurance) and the cost to replace would be several hundred dollars (my glass deductible is $50; this varies very widely by company and policy). If repairing such a large crack did not work, then their policy would simply be adding $60 to their payout for the replacement.

I am unable to say of the repair would have worked, because by the time it was inspected by the glass company, the crack had extended another several inches, well outside the "dollar" limit, so the windshield was replaced.

My insurance company (and others, perhaps almost all) want a window to be repaired if the pit/crack is small enough to fit under a dollar bill. So when I had a rock thrown up at my windshield and it resulted in a crack growing 4 inches later that day, they insisted upon having a repair instead of a replacing the entire window.

I am very skeptical of such a crack being successfully repaired, but I assume that their policy has some kind of success rate that makes it worthwhile. The cost of repair is about $60 (completely covered by insurance) and the cost to replace would be several hundred dollars (my glass deductible is $50; this varies very widely by company and policy). If repairing such a large crack did not work, then their policy would simply be adding $60 to their payout for the replacement.

I am unable to say of the repair would have worked, because by the time it was inspected by the glass company, the crack had extended another several inches, well outside the "dollar" limit, so the windshield was replaced.

My insurance company (and others, perhaps almost all) want a window to be repaired if the pit/crack is small enough to fit under a dollar bill. So when I had a rock thrown up at my windshield and it resulted in a crack growing 4 inches later that day, they insisted upon having a repair instead of replacing the entire window.

I am very skeptical of such a crack being successfully repaired, but I assume that their policy has some kind of success rate that makes it worthwhile. The cost of repair is about $60 (completely covered by insurance) and the cost to replace would be several hundred dollars (my glass deductible is $50; this varies very widely by company and policy). If repairing such a large crack did not work, then their policy would simply be adding $60 to their payout for the replacement.

I am unable to say of the repair would have worked, because by the time it was inspected by the glass company, the crack had extended another several inches, well outside the "dollar" limit, so the windshield was replaced.

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Michael Richardson
Michael Richardson
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My insurance company (and others, perhaps almost all) want a window to be repaired if the pit/crack is small enough to fit under a dollar bill. So when I had a rock thrown up at my windshield and it resulted in a crack growing 4 inches later that day, they insisted upon having a repair instead of a replacing the entire window.

I am very skeptical of such a crack being successfully repaired, but I assume that their policy has some kind of success rate that makes it worthwhile. The cost of repair is about $60 (completely covered by insurance) and the cost to replace would be several hundred dollars (my glass deductible is $50; this varies very widely by company and policy). If repairing such a large crack did not work, then their policy would simply be adding $60 to their payout for the replacement.

I am unable to say of the repair would have worked, because by the time it was inspected by the glass company, the crack had extended another several inches, well outside the "dollar" limit, so the windshield was replaced.