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Can a crack in a windshield be repaired?

I have about a 6 inch crack coming up from the bottom of the windshield.
The whole windshield was replaced in 1998.

I see they make these windshield repair kits where you inject some kind of resin into the crack.
Do these windshield repair kits really work?

The vehicle is just a beater for hauling stuff around town.
So I really don't care if the repair isn't 100% perfect.

The vehicle has never let me down and always fired-up.
It does have a Borg Warner ML3 T5 tranny in it with a 2.8 v6.
So it might be worth fixing the crack in the windshield, if it can be done without costing me a arm and a leg.
Otherwise it might be time for the bone yard.

No on crack repair............it may stop furthering cracking but that's it. So in your case it might help.

The repair kit or professional repair is chips or small star cracks. The repair does work........but........not in every case. One glass guy told me they have about a 75% success rate with chip and star cracks. Most places do not do repairs in the drivers line of sight.

Any contaminatione will compromise the strength of the bond in a long crack repair. . If there is any delamination crack repair is not advised. A fresh crack can often be repaired but every crack is like a snow flake. No two are the same. The same holds true for the technical ability of the repair person doing the repair (no two repair technicians are the same.). Even a perfectly filled crack will still be slitely noticeable from the inside looking out. At certain angles the sun will kind of lite it up. Long crack repair is worth a try on an expensive piece of glass. Honestly the glass for that truck should be hade for under $100 and they are pretty easy to rope in yourself.

showkey and Bicounty beat me to it.
I think it would be kinda dangerous to repair a crack with that stuff; in fact the instructions with some brands warn against it.

I was fortunate when I repaired a star crack on a '94 'burb windshield that way because it worked, but I really didn't like the idea.
Anything could have gone wrong.