Martin McDowell's Blog

If you are living in the UK you probably know about the very well known and advertised car windscreen repair company. You know the one, I you watched 30 seconds of telly you probably saw one of their adverts.

I was on board with the thought that if you have a chip in your windscreen then you should have it repaired before it turns into a crack.

Well today I found out that sometimes fixing it can turn it into a crack – a 17cm one.

As a small chip on the left side of my windscreen was repaired today it cracked and the repair guy stopped the procedure straight away. It was recommended to me to have the whole windscreen replaced. Am sort of sorry I had it fixed now as I am quite sure the chip would be quite stable for a while. Good news I have fully comp insurance so it only costs me the £75 excess and they will come and do it at my home on a Saturday