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Star Breaks

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Most of the damage to the windshield, or any other type of broken glass, is covered by the comprehensive physical damage portion of your full coverage auto insurance. But your policy might require you to pay a deductable. It is the requirement that the veichle owner must pay-out-of pocket before any damage will covered by your auto insurance. Make sure to have spare money in your bank account, decductibles range from $250-$1,000, before paying up front. The replacement of your windshield depends on your situation really, these are the type of damages that require immediate attention and some just need soluble substance that aide with the diminishment of the cracks: Star Break Star breaks, like the anme suggest, are charactrized by their star-like appearance. They are particularly burdensome because they often result in cracks spreading across your windshield. It happens when an object strikes the windshield and leaves tiny (sometimes long) cracks that branch off from the point of impact. It is important to get star breaks repaired …show more content…

For instance, a car becomes overheated from sitting in the sun for too long, and then the air conditioner is turned on high or the car is washed with cold water, or that a very cold cold car sudenly is exposed to heat. This is reason why, in the winter, ice should be scraped or melted off the windshield with cold water, but never with warm or hot water. The cracks almost always start at the edge of the windshield. Stress cracks will normally be a straight line(or slightly bent), and will not have any sign of impact. A perfect way to test if a crack is not a stressed crack is by using a “pen test” in which a ballpoint pen is run along the crack, and if it dips anywhere, it is not a stress crack. This is because with a stress crack, no glass would comes off the

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