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03-12-2022, 04:45 PM
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#1 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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| Rock Chips
Excuse Me Sir, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Rock Chips? 
So sadly in the last few months the windshields on a few of my cars have gotten rock chips. Where's the best place to fix it? I recall reading somewhere that certain ICBC shops offer the service for free? Should I DIY? I've watched a few YouTube videos and it didn't seem that hard, just need sun to cure. Many many years ago I've went to the orange tent ppl that fixed them at Canadian tire parking lots but I haven't seen them around much recently, forgot what the company was called.
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03-12-2022, 05:20 PM
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#2 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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I believe Speedy Glass does chip repair for free. I just got a chip in my windshield last week, i should get it done. https://www.speedyglass.ca/en/glass-...ld-repair.html
edit* just booked my appt to get it fixed
Last edited by RiceIntegraRS; 03-12-2022 at 05:28 PM.
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03-12-2022, 11:08 PM
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#3 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
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If you have comprehensive insurance on your policy, rock chips repairs are free now. So IMO, it no longer make sense to DIY if you have comprehensive coverage.
I have used Speedy Glass a whole bunch of times with good results, and have had friends used Broco Glass with good reasults as well.
A couple of things to keep in mind:
- not all rock chips are repairable
- if you have too many of them on the windshield, some shops will refuse to keep patching it up for you
- sometimes the repairs come out completely invisible, but at least from my experience, usually it leaves a very tiny mark behind
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03-13-2022, 10:31 AM
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#4 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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^^ yea that's fine, better than the rock chips being there or getting worse causing a crack
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03-13-2022, 12:17 PM
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#5 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by Traum  If you have comprehensive insurance on your policy, rock chips repairs are free now | windshield only right? need to get my bumper done  | |
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03-13-2022, 12:46 PM
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#6 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Fill it, wait for your insurance to swing around, and buy the lowest deductible. Wait 24hrs, and lean on it lol
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03-13-2022, 08:32 PM
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#7 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero windshield only right? need to get my bumper done | Yup, windshield only.
For the bumper, there is always DIY bondo + rattle can spray paint. 😬🙈
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03-14-2022, 10:11 AM
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#8 | | MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD
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just booked mine for tomorrow morning. TY, i was about to drive around to a shop today and just ask.
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03-15-2022, 04:21 PM
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#9 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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I've had many repaired by speedyglass. They did a fine job
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03-17-2022, 02:07 PM
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#10 | | private modder
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has anyone noticed this year an increase in rock chips? I've only had a rock chip once in the last 10 years, but this year I've had 3!
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03-17-2022, 02:49 PM
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#11 | | Performance Moderator
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I got 2!! But it was because of driving back from Cache Creek behind some jerk in a Focus RS and his Subaru buddy
(may have also had to follow closer to use their headlights because mine were absolute shit)
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03-17-2022, 02:55 PM
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#12 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by Eff-1 has anyone noticed this year an increase in rock chips? I've only had a rock chip once in the last 10 years, but this year I've had 3! | Noticed the roads are shittier (well Vancouver that is). Lots of unpatched potholes. There is this hole on one of the inside streets where I live, CoV put cones around it, been like that for 1-2 months. Lazy overpaid city workers....
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03-17-2022, 02:58 PM
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#13 | | Performance Moderator
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I saw a little news segment in the UK that Rod Stewart hired a gravel truck and was out there shoveling gravel into potholes on some road that leads up to his mansion because the city wouldn't fix them hahaha... then the Roadworks Dept put out a notice saying citizens attempting to fix roads on their own leave themselves open to liability if anything goes wrong from the repair lol
I have to say in the shots they showed of the road it was absolutely atrocious... Rod said his Ferrari Enzo can't navigate it. I feel his pain sort of.
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