#safelite

You know the scene… You’re driving along, taking in the sights, when suddenly – WHAP. A pebble, or stone, or other piece of road debris flies into your windshield, putting a chip or crack in the glass. Go to  Safelite.com and schedule an appointment. It could start spreading immediately, or maybe you say to yourself  “I’ve got time – I’ll take it to Safelite® next week”. And before you know it, the damage has spread. Now it’s obstructing your view and distracting you while you drive.

The biggest leaps in automotive technology over the past few years haven’t been in propulsion; they’ve been in driver safety. The average new vehicle is safer than it’s ever been, with highly advanced, sophisticated systems that can literally “see” the road and warn of – or react to – potential threats.

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It’s one of the worst sounds you can hear behind the wheel. That sharp crack of something solid hitting your windshield at high speeds. Then you see it, that star shape in your glass that marks a broken windshield. What do you do next? You don’t have time to fix it now, you say, planning to get it fixed later. Like on the weekend, maybe next month? Here’s what to do when you have a chipped or cracked windshield and why ignoring the problem or pushing it down the road will only make things worse when you finally do try and fix it.