Auto Glass Service in Ranburne, AL

Rural highways throw rocks. Get behind a loaded truck on a county road and something is going to hit your windshield eventually, and what happens next depends mostly on how quickly you deal with it.

Fix the chip while it is still a chip

A chip under about the size of a quarter, away from the driver's sight line and not touching the edge of the glass, can usually be filled with resin. It stops the damage spreading, restores most of the strength, and costs a small fraction of a new windshield. A lot of policies waive the deductible on a repair entirely, since carriers would far rather pay for that.

You do not have long, though. A hot afternoon followed by a cold night, or the defroster on a frosty morning, will run that chip into a crack across the glass. Once it reaches the edge or gets past a few inches, replacement is the only option left.

Replacement is a structural job

A windshield is bonded into the body and contributes to the strength of the roof, and the passenger airbag deploys against it. So the pinch weld has to be prepared and primed correctly, the right urethane used, and the safe drive-away time respected instead of handing the keys straight back. A glass job done fast and cheap is a safety item done fast and cheap.

Newer vehicles with a camera behind the mirror need that camera recalibrated afterward, or the lane keeping and braking systems are reading the road through glass they were never aimed through.

Local roads, local rocks

The gravel and chip-seal roads around Ranburne, Fruithurst, and Edwardsville are hard on glass, and so is following a gravel truck anywhere in Cleburne County. If you are driving in from Heflin, Anniston, or over from Carrollton and Bremen, call ahead and we will have the glass on hand rather than have you make the trip twice.

Chips, cracks, door glass, and back glass on all makes, handled on their own or folded into an auto body repair on the same claim. Call (256) 568-3423.