When a rock strikes your windshield and breaks or causes what looks like a chip in your windshield, can leave you perplexed. In fact, those little rocks that fly out-the-back of a dump truck or fly in construction zones have enough force to break your windshield. 

When a rock strikes the windshield it's most likely in the weak-spot of the windshield. Which tends to happen in the middle area of the windshield. 

In order to understand more about this, you need to see the diagram Ultra Bond has that shows you how tension plays a role in this weakness and is a natural default from the factory; a flaw in the design, a flaw auto manufactures refuse to fix. 

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Surprisingly you do not have to hit the windshield too hard in order for it to chip and or have a crack in it. 

This has a lot to do with what a windshield is comprised of. Modern cars have three-layer windshields, where the middle layer is made of a laminate; a PVB Layer. 

This is done on purpose as a safety measure to allow a windshield to break and prevent dangerous or fatal accidents from the jagged glass.

It's honestly a yes and no question. In a non-bias, for the most part, yes windshield chip repair can work. 

However, not all repairs will. If you simply judge the repair in the short-term you can be deceived. Why? Well for one there is a lot more science involved as to why a windshield chip repair could fail. 

The windshield has three layers and the middle layer is the most important layer, it's a laminate layer also known as polycarbonate. 

Any chips in the windshield will comprise this layer as well as the surface layer. 

If the windshield chip repair resin is not successfully injected, bonded with the pvb layer, and cured the chip will return. Hence anyone asking this question might have doubts because of bad reviews showing up online.

There are a lot of hacks in the market that use cheap and inferior tools that are not lab tested and do nothing to restore windshield strength. 

If you are deciding on a windshield chip repair or trying to do it yourself, make sure you ask the windshield repair shop and or technician if they are repairing with structural adhesives and what tools they use. 

In a worst-case scenario, if you cannot find a reputable windshield chip repair technician or shop (and definitely not Safelite) then you can check out the Ultra Bond Economy Windshield Chip Repair Kit. Here you'd have the proper resin, and the injector to fix small chips, stone breaks, and best of all have a kit in the house for future chips or cracks. 

Yes, you should get any chip in your windshield that is small asap! If you don't you will watch the chip grow and or spread really big. 

Star-Break Chips can start out really small and grow to a very large star crack. The reason why you want to repair these windshield chips has to do with avoiding a replacement. 

You might be thinking that very large star breaks or long cracks over 14 inches long can be repaired, but the truth is you run the risk of debris like dirt getting into a long crack. With a star chip it can big to where it is hard to repair the legs and the legs are the biggest threat. 

So don't wait to repair a small chip or crack. What you don't know is you already paid for a windshield chip repair in your insurance. Although most chips can cost $89.00 to $69.00, you can have your insurance by the bill. 

Find a windshield chip repair professional and let them help you on the phone set up your claim and professionally repair your chipped windshield.