Tinted windshield

[0hunter]

I di a repair on a Pontiac Grand Prix today that had a tinted section at the top of the windshield about 8 inches wide. When I injected the resin, a blue/purple circle could be seen around the damaged area from the inside of the car. Do I need some type of tinted resin to avoid this in the future? I was using the Delta Kits premium Bond resin. Should I use something different on these types of windshields?

[Dave M]

Chances are that the area you are describing was there before you injected resin. Did you look at the break from the inside before you started the repair? If you did or had looked you would have seen a "creamy" area around the break. (I think this is what you are talking about)
I think it's called bleaching of the lamination in the shaded area of the windshield caused by air contacting the plastic separating both pieces of glass.
This is what I've learned in the past, maybe another tech can correct me if I'm wrong.

[J.T.Window]

My guess is that these fade-out spots are caused by water getting into the chip or crack over a period of time. You won't see fading like that on a fresh break. If you want to see real fading, check out an old pickup or car with a shade bar and an old top-to-bottom crack. Sometimes the bleached-out stripe is an inch or more wide.
A lot of times the fading isn't apparent before the repair because the chip more or less hides it.
I hold a white piece of paper behind the break to show the customer that the fading is already there.

J.T.Window

[repare-brise]

This is a case for tinted resins such as Glass Mechanix, even with a bleached out sopt the blue resin darkens the area and succeeds at hiding 90% of the visual aspect of the break. You can console your customenr in the fact that the repair is solid and much safer that if they would have had the glass replaced.
A excellent resin like Delta's will not crack-out (assuming you did the job well, and if the outcome concerns you, then your customers satisfaction is important to you, so yes we can assume that you did the job well) but unfortunatly a white resin in a dark piece of glass(actually the glass isn't tinted it's the PVB layer) will not camoflage the break as well.

Merci

[Delta Kits]

Just to let you know too, you can get our resin in grey, amber, or blue as well. In addition to that, at the Liter level you can get custom resin with your exact color specs.