Windscreen advice needed

[jblandford]

Hi Everyone
I have a crack in the windscreen right in the drivers eyeline that is booked into National Windscreens on 3rd April. Nothing sooner. I am told not to drive the car as I could be stopped (understandable) and insurance would be void in the event of an accident (also entirely understandable.

I need the car for work, as does my wife. We don't have an alternative we can use.

Has anyone had any luck escalating this with either their insurer or repairer as the car is not drivable? (As an aside the crack is getting bigger by the day sitting on the drive and heading for the centre camera centre cluster on the windscreen as well)

Thank you for any thoughts

 

[GRiLLA]

Back when Autoglass had huge delays on sourcing windscreens some people convinced their insurance to pay to allow Tesla to replace it, but that was months of delay not just over a week.

Rent a car for a week,

 

[M1tch]

I had a similar issue for about 9 months. Go to Halfords (other sellers exist) and get a windscreen resin repair kit

Windscreen Repair Kit | Halfords UK

Shop the latest Minimises the appearance of chips and cracks in windscreens and stops them spreading. at Halfords UK

www.halfords.com

Ignore everything in the pack apart from the resin. Squeeze this into the crack and it will almost vanish. Leave it to dry for an hour or so (ignore the 20 min thing on the package)

Scrape clean with the included razor and you will be fine.

As we have almost no police and live in an almost lawless society you’re unlikely to be stopped for a crack in the screen but the above resin trick is how I got through 9 months with my issue.

 

[jblandford]

Thank you for the helpful advice

 

[NewbieT]

If it’s un-drivable won’t your insurance provide a hire car? Given EV repair times the option should be considered almost compulsory!

 

[M1tch]

Nope! Windscreens are normally fixed in days so written into the insurance small print that a courtesy car isn’t a reasonable for a windscreen repair.

That was the story when mine (and many others) had issues 18 months or so ago.