Auto Glass Windshield Repair for Star Damage

This technique is limited to damage no larger than a quarter. Areas larger may need a full Windshield Replacement.

When a rock or flying debris strikes your windshield, a certain amount of glass is displaced and air and moisture works its way into the damaged area. Similar to Windshield Crack Repair, Star Damage Windshield Repair involves injection of a special resin into the damaged area using a tool that attaches directly to the glass. Once injected, this resin is then cured and polished to restore the clarity to the glass. When a Star break occurs, it often spreads into the windshield's inner layer of plastic, called Poly Vinyl Butyral, or PVB, which is sandwiched between two layers of glass. In some instances, a drill is used to make a clean passageway to the plastic, where the resin is injected to repair the damage. Windshield repair performs several functions; it prevents the damage from spreading to the rest of the windshield, and the visual clarity of the damaged area is improved, especially if the Auto Glass Repair is made sooner than later before contaminants find their way into the windshield and cannot be easily removed. Some also say that the structural integrity of the windshield is improved, though no publicly available tests are known to exist to support this claim.

Windshield repair began prior to the 1970's when a small number of early pioneers in the Auto Glass Repair business experimented with oil-based solutions that were poured into Windshield Cracks that resulted in a cosmetic way to hide the break. It was in the 1970's when Auto Glass Repair really began to grow, led by Novus and other companies, as more and more companies entered the business. In the 1990's, we witnessed an explosion of volume as Belron grew its windshield Repair volume.