挡风玻璃修理套件吗？

One of the most annoying things that can happen to your car is getting a crack or chip on the windshield (or windscreen, depending on what you call it where you live).

即使您有完整的保险覆盖，允许挡风玻璃替换为您，仍有让您的汽车到玻璃专家的麻烦，再次恢复，处理保险公司等。

您的保险单也可能没有挡风玻璃涵盖，这意味着您留下了一个契约票据进行维修或更换。

另一种情况是您知道您可以在保险下进行更换，但您在工作之旅或度假时，需要帮助您获得汽车之家（最近发生在我身上，这是这篇文章的灵感而且我更详细Rain-X挡风玻璃维修套件评论). You just need a temporary stop-gap measure to last you until you can get a proper repair done.

对于经典汽车，您可以选择使用维修套件的原因之一是它可以迅速来源换挡风玻璃。汽车玻璃专家将倾向于能够为流行，现代车型找到挡风玻璃，但对于一些较老的车辆，您可以等待很长一段时间（这不是完全相同的场景，而是我旧的后玻璃Fiat Stilo Abarthwas smashed in what I believe was a bungled burglary attempt. It took over three months for a new rear windshield to become available, and another month to get an appointment to get it fixed!)

Whatever the reason why, one popular choice is to use a DIY windshield repair kit.

But do windshield repair kits actually work?

在本文中,我们将仔细审视当ther or not DIY windshield repair kits are a waste of money or if they actually work.

什么是DIY挡风玻璃维修套件？

长话短说，大多数DIY修复套件包含一种特殊类型的树脂，填充挡风玻璃上的裂缝/芯片。

当这种树脂干燥（或“修理”使用技术术语）时，它与周围玻璃粘合，也可以清晰地粘合，所以你可以像普通玻璃一样看到它。

The kits contain everything needed to do a DIY repair, including the resin and other tools required to get a better outcome.

在哪里买和支付多少钱？

挡风玻璃维修套件相当便宜。您可以从10-30美元的任何地方支付，具体取决于您购买的位置和您需要获得的紧急情况（即，如果您被迫从一些小镇汽车商店购买，那么您可能需要支付更多费用）。

Amazon has a great range of repair kits, which you can see for salehere。

If you need something right now, then your local car parts store is probably the best bet. Many hardware/DIY stores seem to stock these products as well.

Is A Repair Kit Right For You?

Different repair kits seem to come with different recommendations and requirements, but at a high level, you can use a repair kit in the following circumstances:

• The chip/crack is only one layer deep- 大多数挡风玻璃由两层玻璃组成，带有一层塑料夹在一起，以提高力量和安全。如果你的芯片/裂缝有一个以某种方式通过第一层玻璃，而塑料进入内层，那么你将无法修复问题。
• 芯片/裂缝不是太大– Look at the instructions for the specific kit you are looking to buy to see what constitutes “too big” for the kit, but a rule of thumb is that any chip larger than a small coin is going to be hard to repair. Any crack longer than about 12 inches is also too big to repair.
  • 芯片/裂缝越小，修复更容易。

My Experience

As I mentioned in the intro to this article, I recently used a windshield repair kit on a trip to tide me over while I drove my car back home.

I was on holiday, and wound up with a decent crack (that was spreading into the key vision area) owing to someone flicking up a stone on a drive across a twisty piece of gravelled road.

I purchased a Rain-X windshield repair kit from a local store – read my full review here for info and pictures – and attempted a basic DIY repair that would hopefully get me home without any spreading of the crack.

修复的结果超出了我的期望。不仅裂缝没有进一步传播，它很大程度上都是完全消失。

考虑

看着自己的经验，与使用这些套件的其他人交谈，并在线阅读评论和信息，似乎在使用DIY挡风玻璃维修套件之前需要进行一些关键因素：

1. Are your expectations reasonable?如果您预计从挡风玻璃维修中“和新的”一样，您可能会失望。例如，我仍然能够制作一些微弱的裂缝线。您将无法实现与专业人士可以做的结果一样好，并且当然没有与新挡风玻璃一样的标准！
2.芯片/裂缝是否足够小实际修复？芯片/裂缝越大，修复越难。对可以实现的东西是现实的。
你能遵循这些说明吗？The instructions for these kits are fairly precise, as you need to ensure you are getting the air out of the chip/crack etc. If you can’t follow the instructions, then you are unlikely to enjoy a satisfactory repair job.

If you can answer ‘yes’ to those questions above, then a DIY repair kit might be a good option.

Nothing Lasts Forever

One thing to bear in mind is that your DIY repair might not last as long as you like.

我无法评论个人经验。我的维修只需要持续一周（我已经在甚至使用Rain-X维修套件之前预订了一个完整的更换挡风玻璃，所以我知道它持续了多长时间）。

Many people seem to go happily about their way with a DIY repair lasting months, even years.

然而，我已经看到了大量的修理伴侣，往往在时间之后，通常在另一个石头或其他物体击中挡风玻璃时。另一个贡献因素可以是天气极端，例如冷冻天气，导致树脂收缩，然后在转动加热器系统时展开。

树脂修复挡风玻璃试剂盒不太可能是100％耐用和永久的修复（除了最小的芯片/裂缝外）。

Therefore, if you are doing the repair as a cost-saving exercise e.g. you don’t have windshield cover in your insurance, I would strongly recommend you still start squirrelling away the money required to get there windshield replaced at some point in the future. Use the repair kit to “buy some time” as it were.

Conclusion – Do DIY Windshield Repair Kits Work?

In my personal experience (and this is a “one from one” kind of thing) they do work.

虽然我仍然能够看到裂缝，但它不太明显 - 到你真正要看它的地点 - 而且还有六小时车程的裂缝没有传播。

我仍然有一个全新的挡风玻璃，主要是因为新西兰规则决定了一个专业修理店无法填充/修复从挡风玻璃边缘开始的裂缝 - 它必须被替换（当地管辖区的规则可能当然，各种各样。

你可以读我的Rain-X repair kit review, as that was the product I used, for even more information and photos.

如果您要尝试其中一个套件，那么真正重要的是对维修期望的结果是现实的。不要以为你要结束一份看起来“像新的一样好”，特别是如果你试图修复更大的芯片或裂缝。也可能是修复不会持续较长。

However, considering how inexpensive these kits are, if your repair requirements are within the guidelines of what can be done, then I do recommend giving it a try.