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Crack on windscreen

  • 05-06-2014 08:56AM
    #1
    seantobin43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭


    Hi

    I've a crack on the bottom of my windscreen but it can't be seen when your inside the car. It's a long crack about 2 feet wide. Will this pass nct?


Comments

  • #2
    goz83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭goz83


    It might if its not in areas ABC. If your nct is due soon, put it through and see what happens. Its a free visual if it fails. Personally, i wouldn't drive around with a cracked screen though.


  • #3
    seantobin43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭seantobin43


    goz83 wrote: »
    It might if its not in areas ABC. If your nct is due soon, put it through and see what happens. Its a free visual if it fails. Personally, i wouldn't drive around with a cracked screen though.

    Where are the ABC area's?

    I have windscreen cover on my insurance but how do I go about to get a new one?


  • #4
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Just out of interest, why would you consider a two foot crack in your windscreen to only be a problem for the nct? It's dangerous. If your insurance doesn't include windscreen cover you've got weird insurance. It's about the simplest and most straightforward thing to get sorted on a car. You don't even have to leave the house! Just make a phone call.

    In fairness, it would have been simpler to get the screen replaced than to start this thread. Get it sorted.


  • #5
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    seantobin43 wrote: »
    I have windscreen cover on my insurance but how do I go about to get a new one?

    Does your insurance company have a phone number...?


  • #6
    seantobin43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭seantobin43


    Im with liberty insurance. I'll give autoglass a ring and see if they can do it before the 20th of June


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  • #7
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    seantobin43 wrote: »
    Im with liberty insurance. I'll give autoglass a ring and see if they can do it before the 20th of June
    They'd quite possibly be able to do it today.


  • #8
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Ring liberty, tell them you need a new window and they will get a glass installer to ring you and arrange everything. I only got my windscreen done a few months ago and it was sorted in a few hours.


  • #9
    goz83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭goz83


    jonny24ie wrote: »
    Ring liberty, tell them you need a new window and they will get a glass installer to ring you and arrange everything. I only got my windscreen done a few months ago and it was sorted in a few hours.

    If you took your policy out before january, you will be using a different glass company. Just make sure they put all the seals back in place. They neglected to put a bottom seal back onto my car a couple of months ago. Thankfully it was easily replaced.


  • #10
    dougie-lampkin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 676 ✭✭✭dougie-lampkin


    With Liberty you have to ring them first, they have a dedicated glass cover line - 1890 94 4410. They'll patch you through to your local rep.


  • #11
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    endacl wrote: »
    Just out of interest, why would you consider a two foot crack in your windscreen to only be a problem for the nct? It's dangerous. If your insurance doesn't include windscreen cover you've got weird insurance. It's about the simplest and most straightforward thing to get sorted on a car. You don't even have to leave the house! Just make a phone call.

    In fairness, it would have been simpler to get the screen replaced than to start this thread. Get it sorted.


    To be fair, the windscreen isn't going to fall out, split in two or into many pieces. They're laminated for that reason.

    Only danger may be the restriction of view. Other than that its more or less okay to drive with it till its fixed.

    Not as much as a safety issue as bad brakes or a tyre with a bulge is.

    Notwithstanding the above, its pretty easy to get them fixed so why not.


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  • #12
    rex-x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭rex-x


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    To be fair, the windscreen isn't going to fall out, split in two or into many pieces. They're laminated for that reason.

    Only danger may be the restriction of view. Other than that its more or less okay to drive with it till its fixed.

    Not as much as a safety issue as bad brakes or a tyre with a bulge is.

    Notwithstanding the above, its pretty easy to get them fixed so why not.

    Not exactly, the windscreen is structural so if the car were to roll over the roof would cave in far more easily than if it was not cracked


  • #13
    goz83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭goz83


    rex-x wrote: »
    Not exactly, the windscreen is structural so if the car were to roll over the roof would cave in far more easily than if it was not cracked

    :rolleyes:


  • #14
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    rex-x wrote: »
    Not exactly, the windscreen is structural so if the car were to roll over the roof would cave in far more easily than if it was not cracked

    [Citation Needed]


  • #15
    rex-x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭rex-x


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    [Citation Needed]
    http://kittrellglass.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/crack-in-my-windshield-is-it-safe-to-drive/ I don't get what is so hard to understand, the windscreen of a car is hugely important to its strength, its like having a huge crack in a wall of your house


  • #16
    goz83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭goz83


    rex-x wrote: »
    http://kittrellglass.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/crack-in-my-windshield-is-it-safe-to-drive/ I don't get what is so hard to understand, the windscreen of a car is hugely important to its strength, its like having a huge crack in a wall of your house

    It was the "far" more easily part. While a crack might make some difference if the car happened to roll over, I would say that it would make minimal difference and is not comparable to a "huge" crack in a wall of your house (unless you're referring to am inner wall).

    You must know Joe Higgins.


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