Why Small Chips Should Be Repaired Quickly: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late

Why Small Chips Should Be Repaired Quickly: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late

Let me tell you something about chips—specifically, the kind that show up on your windshield after a high-speed rendezvous with a pebble flung from a construction truck doing 75 on I-25.

At first glance, it’s nothing. A speck. A barely-there imperfection. You notice it one morning while waiting for the defrost to do its thing. It catches a sliver of sunlight at just the right angle, and you think: "Huh." And then you forget about it.

But I’ve been in this business long enough to know that chips are never just chips. They are preambles. They are the early, polite knock before the door is kicked in. A chip is entropy on a schedule—it only moves forward.

Here in Albuquerque, the desert sun doesn’t gently warm your windshield; it tests it. Bakes it. Expands it. Then, right when the sun ducks behind the Sandias and the evening cool rolls in, the glass contracts. Combine that with the constant tremor of wheels over rough pavement and the occasional slam of a car door, and what started as a dot spreads like a cracked screen on a dropped phone.

I’ve seen hairline fractures stretch their legs overnight. What was once a ten-minute repair becomes a full-glass replacement—calibrations, sensors, insurance calls, the works. And all because someone thought they could wait a few days.

That’s where I come in.

At RND Auto Care, I don’t just patch glass. I read it. Every chip has a story: the angle of impact, the shape of the crater, the tension lines. We inject a high-grade resin under pressure—surgical, precise—and fuse the layers before the damage can get ideas about growing up and becoming something worse. The glass is healed, the strength restored, the crack denied its little drama.

It’s not just about the fix. It’s about integrity. Your windshield is part of your car’s safety system. In a collision, it’s load-bearing. If your car has lane-assist or emergency braking, that cracked surface may be the only thing between your safety tech working... or guessing.

But really, beyond the science and structural engineering, there’s something else. There’s the experience of driving with a clean, whole, unblemished field of view. There’s no distraction, no nagging reminder that something needs attention. Just clarity.

I started RND as a veteran-owned shop because I wanted to bring discipline, pride, and precision to work that often gets treated like a chore. We don’t do chores here. We restore things. Your car. Your confidence. Your windshield.

So, if you’ve got a chip—just a little one—don’t wait. Bring it in. Let’s get ahead of it, together.

While you’re here, I can also talk to you about detailing packages, ceramic coatings, or interior restorations. One chip may be small, but it’s often the beginning of bigger things. In this shop, we believe in fixing beginnings.