Windshield Repair Forum

What resin is best for breaks in the upper tinted part of the windshield as far as appearences?

It is clear glass use regular resin. The tint is not in the glass. It is in the layer between the two pieces of glass.

Your reply raises an interesting point concerning tinted resins and refractive index, Nelson.

Also the repair approach taken among clear, tinted, and tinted and shaded glass.

Out of curiosity, have you ever tried using green or blue tinted resins in the shaded area?

We have.

Good question, glass tek.

Rather than go on and on covering every base as I am sometimes prone to do, I bow to the forum for what might be an interesting thread as far as repair esthetics in this matter is concerned.

It absolutely amazes me that some wsr companies get away with selling tinted resins. What is the real purpose of tinted resin? To sell more bottles of resin, period.

As Nelson stated, the glass is CLEAR. It is NOT tinted. I know I have fixed thousands of cars and I've yet to see a single repair where normal "clear" resin was a problem. I have, however heard of and seen others repair a chip in the tint area with tinted resin... and then the "tinted" area was actually real tint. When it was removed, guess what was left behind? Yep, a nasty dark colored bullseye in an otherwise clear windshield. Pretty funny.

Trust us, throw away the special tinted resin, or ask the people who sold it to you to exchange it for the normal decaf bottles. Sheesh...

BTW, my post refers exlusively to the color tinted resin made to match the tint band area, and not to any "normal" clear resins that have some miniscule amounts of tint. These are simply intended to help dull or hide the repair and they "look" clear to the human eye.

cheerio

It absolutely amazes me that some wsr companies get away with selling tinted resins. What is the real purpose of tinted resin? To sell more bottles of resin, period.

Couldn't agree more.

I'm going to assume that we are talking about the cloudy area around the break in the shade of the w/s. It is my understanding that the cloudy effect is caused by "bleaching" of the PVB and using a tinted resin will not clear that area because it is in the plastic.

Dave
you are correct. Once the PVB is contaminated and appears white. There is nothing that can be done to restore the clarity in the PVB. This is particularly important for "line of vision" breaks as quite often the white clouding is enhanced by the injection of WSR resin.