Essentials for a DIY Windshield Chip Repair Kit


Who doesn’t love to travel? Traveling becomes more exciting when you’re with the people you love and the chilly winds brush through your hair.

Road trips represent 39% of American vacations. As such, your car windshield chipping or cracking shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to you. It can crack even with the slightest pebble because you’re traveling at high speed on the highway.

Here’s a DIY windshield chip repair kit to help you on your road trip.

Get a Microfiber Towel and Some Alcohol

Keep a microfiber towel in your kit in the first place because they’re essential for cleaning and dusting off the excessive grime from the chipped area. Put some alcohol or glass cleaning spray on the towel to increase cleaning effectiveness.



A Pair of Gloves

Windshield repair involves dealing with shard pieces. To prevent serious injuries, keep a pair of gloves in your kit to ensure your safety while mending your windshields. Glass resistant gloves are recommended.

Mirror and Safety Pins

Mirrors are to be kept in the kit as they’re useful in carefully assessing the chipped area depth, shape, and sides. You can also place a colored paper behind the cracked windshield to figure out its size accurately.

Put some safety pins or needles in your kit to pick out the shards from the windshield easily.

Seal and Resin

The seal makes the broken part prominent. You place it on the windshield before applying resin. Resin is a specialized sticky material to repair windshields effectively. There are many of its types available in the market.

Best resins are high in viscosity, dense, and quick in drying. Synthetic resins are composed of acrylic acid, methacrylate, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Do keep a view on its ingredients when buying from the market.

Safety Razors

Finally, don’t forget to keep safety razors in your kits because they’re useful in placing windshield components back, applying the resin, and scratching out the resin marks. And that’s all you need to keep in your DIY windshield repair kit.

AAR Auto Glass and Mobile Windshield Repair Services

Although this DIY repair kit can come in handy, it isn’t recommended that you fix your cracked windshield yourself, as you can cut your hand or get injured. If you’re in or near Houston and need a professional windshield repair, get in touch with AAR Auto Glass.

They offer mobile windshield, auto glass, and rock chip repair services 24/7 with over 30 years of industry experience. Moreover, they provide lifetime warranty services at affordable prices.

Get in touch with them at (832) 303-0318 or info@aarautoglass.com. Get your free estimate now.

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