Top 10 Best Windshield Repair Kits

Rain-X is known for making superb car care products. From headlight restoration kits to wiper blades, this company has the experience and technology to make car care products that are effective and long-lasting.

The company's windshield repair kit is no exception. With great user ratings, this kit comes with a quad suction pad applicator and 0.96 ounces of resin glass repair fluid. This kit is super easy to use and, if done properly, will fix your crack or chip within minutes, excluding drying times. This kit can even fill longer cracks. Apart from windshields, it works on all kinds of laminated glass and windshields including quarter windows, side windows, and rear screen.

Rain-X's advanced resin formula helps minimize the crack/chip appearance very well and also protects your windshield from further damage. Because you’re getting more amount of fluid per package, this kit can be used for multiple repairs, making this a bargain.

The Windshield Repair Kit from Permatex Canada Inc. is a high-tech heavy duty kit that makes permanent, air-tight repairs of bullseye cracks of up to 1.25 inches on any laminated glass window.

The company specializes in providing maintenance solutions to OEM parts manufacturers and engineering companies. Hence, their product for DIY window repair is better formulated than anything else on the market. The instruction manual that comes with the kit is very detailed, including photographs of the step-by-step procedure.

The liquid resin requires no mixing or preparing and provides a professional quality repair. The company recommends the repairs to be done in a shaded area with the repair area temperature between 50° F to 70° F. As the resin cures itself in sunlight, they recommend leaving the car in direct sunlight for a couple of hours.

The kit comes with a newly redesigned state-of-the-art delivery system with an advanced spring lock feature.

This windshield repair kit from Blue Star comes with a 1.6-ounce tube of resin liquid. The kit includes a repair injector, an adhesive alignment seal, resin chamber pedestal, resin liquid, a curing film and a razor blade to scrub off excess liquid from your windshield.

The company recommends the windshield repair work to be done in sunlight for best results. This kit seems to works better than most other kits in the market and users have reported their windshield cracks harder to see in daylight as compared to repair work done using other similar kits.

This product can also work on shower doors and other laminated glass doors and windows.

Well known for its DIY dent repair kits, GLISTON offers a quality windshield repair kit as well. If you have several cracks to deal with on your windshield, you can purchase this kit in a 2-pack, but if you only need to take care of a single flaw, save some money and purchase the 1-pack. Designed to effectively repair small cracks and chips in 20 to 30 minutes, this windshield repair kit will work on most types of outer glass. It works best on small chips, bulls-eye, star-shaped, half-moon crescents, and cracks not more than 12-inches and circular damage no more than 1 inch in diameter.

Like many other windshield repair kits on our list, you'll squeeze the resin into the cracks and then apply a curing strip before quickly drying and having the solution solidify under the sun. Afterwards, simply scrape off any residual resin with a spatula. It's one of the easier-to-use kits we have on our list, just make sure your damage isn't too extensive. The company does a great job explaining what can and cannot be repaired with its kit.

3M is a renowned company producing some of the best car care and home improvement products and their windshield repair kit is one of them. The kit comes with a dual suction stabilizer, a bottle of resin liquid, a couple of wipes, a dropper, and a blade. Also included is an excellent quality, concise instructions manual.

This kit requires no mixing or heating and the mount supplied with the kit holds pressure really well. Although the kit works phenomenally well, some users suggest to use your own screws on the suction cups rather than using the screws that come with the kit. That is the only drawback of this kit.

VERSACHEM is a U.S.-based company that has been manufacturing DIY adhesive, sealing, and automotive repairing products for the last 35 years. Its windshield repair kit comes with a 1.8 fl-oz tube of resin liquid and can repair chips and cracks of up to 1.25 inches in diameter. As tested, this kit can only be used once and cannot be reused for multiple cracks or chips. Like all other kits, this one, when applied, cures within 1 hour in direct sunlight.

If you're looking for a professional-grade windshield repair kit, Tri Glass offers several different products to consider. The company's basic windshield repair kit is a lot more comprehensive than other offerings on our list, but should only really be used if you have the knowledge and experience with these tools. Another reason to opt for one of these kits is if you're considering a side job or hobby of repairing windshields.

Each kit comes with everything you need to perform a quality, professional repair. The basic kit includes o-rings, pit buffer and polish, inspection mirror, mylar tabs, hookscribe and carbide scribe, lube, cloth, razor blades, acetone container, glass cleaner, and a DVD with training videos on how to repair windshields. The most important component on these kits is the patented Tri Glass Bridge, which features a precision stainless steel injector. But as we mentioned before, you'll want to know what you're doing before using this type of kit. You could actually make cracks even worse if you don't know what you're doing.

This windshield repair kit is made by the famous J-B Weld company, known for producing patented epoxy products. This kit is made in the U.S. and comes with a patented step by step system. The kit guarantees to minimize chips and cracks and prevent further damage. It can repair cracks and chips of up to 1.25 inches in diameter.

Once applied correctly, the repair job leaves a smooth texture to your damaged windshield. One bottle or resin can work on 3 small pits. Customers have reported curing times of 12 hours or leaving it overnight making this one of the slower curing kits. Similar to other J-B weld products, this one works pretty well if you follow the instructions.

This DIY windshield repair kit is a product from ATG GmbH, a German manufacturer of car care products. Along with fixing chipped or cracked glass, this kit can also fix other optical issues and distortions in the glass such as scratches caused by bad windshield wipers, ice scrapers, etc.

This kit can also restore old glass in vintage or classic cars. This is an added feature of this kit that makes it stand out from the other products on this list. No other DIY kit has the ability to restore old glass. The kit comes with a resin injector syringe, metal scraper blade, cleaning cloth, cleaning pin, adhesive seal and the resin liquid itself.

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