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- SC Coast
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- 2019 CX-5 GT Gray
$150 is for a repair, not replacement
New CX-5 with a cracked windshield
- Thread starter theplayer11
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- Plano, Texas, USA
I really don’t think that kind of damage on windshield can be repaired.
They have jumped up quite a bit at 150 bucks. It was 98 bucks a year or so ago when I went in.
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- Plano, Texas, USA
Almost everything has gone up significantly nowadays. Just found out the MSRP for OEM wiper refills on my gen-1 CX-5 have gone up from $8.33 / $8.16 / $8.10 November last year to current $10.74 / $8.56 / $12.05 front-driver / front-passenger / rear respectively.
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- SC Coast
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- 2019 CX-5 GT Gray
It was quoted online @ $134.99 + $19.99 mobile fee + tax. So actually more than $160. Another local business close to me has a cost of chip repair $75 on their web site. I am going to check 2 shops close to me and get quotes and what process they use. Just pisses me off these windshields are so "brittle" compared to older vehicles I have owned.
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- 2023 CX-5 2.5 Turbo AWD Auto
RIP 8/23:2013 CX-5 Sport FWD Auto 120k
Agreed. I’m my experience they’ll say it can be repaired but they’re all shoulders when you ask why it looks bad afterwards. I tried having a starburst fixed back when I owned a 2014 Corolla. The repair looked like crap and it was right in my field of view, so I got it replaced. My mother in laws ‘18 CX5 had very similar damage to the OP. She opted for repair and imo it looks atrocious. The center of the crack was filled, but there are still three plain as day cracks branching out from the center that didn’t get any resin inside of them.
I’ve opted for full windshield replacements 2 times since then, once on my ‘13 CX-5 and just two weeks ago on my ‘19 RAV4. Florida has free windshield repairs/replacement with comprehensive so the CX-5 repair was zero deductible. Now I’m in Alabama so I had to pay my $250 comprehensive deductible to get my RAV4 windshield replaced.
I was a bit worried with the RAV4 as it has a camera on the windshield for the Safety Sense 2.0 system. Safelite replaced the windshield and had the camera calibration complete in under 30 minutes. Great service and I was able to do it on a Saturday. Needed to be done at their shop though due the calibration.
Safelite only uses aftermarket windshields and they are horrible and the installs are horrendous as well.
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- SC Coast
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- 2019 CX-5 GT Gray
That's the exact kind of response I was looking for. Looks like it has 5 cracks coming from the center. Definitely getting more "eyes on" opinions from local shops. The guy with safelite was on the phone and never asked much about the "chip", just wanted to schedule the appointment.
Exactly. Run away from safelite. All they do is advertise and that's how people know them and think they are the best to go to. They are the worst
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- 2021 CX-9 Sig
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- 2021 CX-5 GT
Oh god, I wish I read this before. I just had a windshield replaced on my CX-9. The HUD is now blurry and I honestly can't read it. Argh.
HyFlyer
2019 CX5 sig 2.2 diesel / 2016.5 CX5 touring 2.5na
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- Southwest Ohio
That doesn't look to bad to me for a repair. Looks lower in the center of windshield (not in you or passenger direct line of sight). Pretty common for insurance companies to repair glass cracks and chips with zero cost to you (so as to avoid paying big bucks for a windshield replacement).
I've not had any (knock on wood!) Glass issues with 5 mazda's I've owned but have had plenty of experience with glass repair on work vehicles. They're usually not perfect but if the repair isn't right in front of your face it can be suitable. Safelite has done many quality repair jobs for me on work equipment. I don't how they'd be with replacement glass on a Mazda.
There ya go. My $ .02
sucks catchin' a rock on your new ride. I feel ya!
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- 2023 CX-5 2.5 Turbo AWD Auto
RIP 8/23:2013 CX-5 Sport FWD Auto 120k
OEM replacements on both of my vehicles.
That isn't correct. I had a windshield replaced by Safelite on a 2016 Acura RDX a few years ago and they put an Acura windshield back in. I specifically had it done that way as the car was less than 6mths old.
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- 2018 CX-5 Sport
My previous car got a stone hit. Safelite did an excellent job replacing the windshield. My gripe was they first tried to fix the windshield, and it looked totally fixable, and the guy came back and said the windshield broke trying to fix it and I would need to replace it. They didn't let me watch when they were trying to fix it and I felt like they broke it on purpose.
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- Pueblo county CO
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- CX-5 Sport 16.5 6M
Exactly what happened to mine.
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- SC Coast
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- 2019 CX-5 GT Gray
If I go with them, it will be done in my garage with me overseeing the repair. Haven't had a chance to go to the other 2 places near me.
