Hello,

I have just purchased a used (non-CPO) 2013 LS460L, and the windshield has a small chip on the very bottom.

It's nearly unnoticeable now, but I'm afraid it may expand in the future.

Does anyone have any experience with fixing a tiny chip on the windshield of the LS460?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thank you

 

Well this may be helpful, it may not.

I let small chips go as long as they are out of my field of vision. Anything that gets in my way or out of control gets replaced for $100 as that's the deductible I use for comprehensive coverage on all my cars. Hope that helps.

 

The Toyota dealership where I have my oil changed repaired the small chips on my windshield. They did an excellent job and they file on my insurance. Didn't cost me a thing.

 

Get it fixed, most insurance companies will do chip repair for no charge.

 

I had a 1 inch crack in mine and got it filled with resin for $60. I called my insurance company (State Farm) and he said they don't cover repairs and I'd need to meet my deductible first. The guy who did mine had 5 stars on Yelp with over 60 reviews. He said if there is no crack, a crack will not appear from a small rock chip or nic. If there is no starburst, you should be fine. Or so that's according to him.

 

Is the chip on the drivers or passenger side? Most repair places won't repair anything on drivers side (at least that's my experience). But there's always exceptions to that rule.

Here's a repair on the driver side of my RX. It was repaired a little over 2 years ago, and hasn't gotten an worse.

Yes, it's noticeable when I'm driving, but it's minor enough not to be a safety hazard.

 

I had a small chip in my windshield and pick up one of these at the auto parts store.


Easy $10.00 fix

 

As stated by others, a chip will become a crack before long. Filling a chip can cost as little as 15 bucks. There's a local auto body shop in my area that charges 15 bucks and another that charges 35. Shop around. Many insurance companies will cover it for free and is cheaper for them than it is to replace an entire windshield when the chip become a crack (and it WILL). A chip can only be filled when there are no runs from that chip. Once it starts to crack (even an 8thh of an inch), it can no longer be filled.

 

This is great insight, thanks.

I'm going to consider getting it addressed this weekend, before it becomes a bigger problem.

 

What's funny is that my previous car attracted small rocks like a magnet. It was pot-marked with crators that gave the moon's surface a run for the money. Something about Hondas/Acuras and the rake of those windows and me constantly driving behind big rigs. I counted fifteen (15) accumulated over ten year's worth of driving before I traded in my car, some large, some small, but none showed signs of cracking or spreading and I never got any of them "fixed."

I was waiting for the first crack to appear before changing and it never came! It was acoustic glass like our cars. So, while I have no dings yet, hopefully they will behave similar to my previous car. I read that fixing them actually tends to increase the chances of cracking due to the additional stress. No idea if that's true or not, but in my case, not fixing them didn't do any harm apparently and some of those crators were almost as old as the car lol.

 

That's certainly unusual. Most dings will spread sooner rather than later, especially cars in colder climates where heating cold glass will stress it. Also driving on pot-holed roads etc.