Do I need a windscreen repair?
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It's down to size and where the chip is on the windscreen.
Your chip looks barely 1mm, so will be fine no matter where it is, though.
Your chip looks barely 1mm, so will be fine no matter where it is, though.
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Use a hammer to hammer it out
That’s not strictly true, you can have damage of 40mm+ on the screen and it’ll pass no problem.It's down to size and where the chip is on the windscreen.
The 10mm in zone ‘A’ as an automatic fail also isn’t true.
You can also just not have a windscreen, unless the wording has been changed in the manual 
Years ago I had to MOT a car, for which I had a replacement screen but no screen rubber was available at the time, everywhere was out of stock. I removed the cracked screen. It passed the MOT with comments.
Of course I had no intention of driving it about with no screen, but I had lost my parking place and needed to tax it to park it on the road for a couple of weeks.
@JonRGV250 not sure if that "loophole" has been closed, though I guess stuff like old Austin 7 specials etc might not have screens, though it's a bit different as there is clearly no screen rather than it just being missing.
Years ago I had to MOT a car, for which I had a replacement screen but no screen rubber was available at the time, everywhere was out of stock. I removed the cracked screen. It passed the MOT with comments.
Of course I had no intention of driving it about with no screen, but I had lost my parking place and needed to tax it to park it on the road for a couple of weeks.
@JonRGV250 not sure if that "loophole" has been closed, though I guess stuff like old Austin 7 specials etc might not have screens, though it's a bit different as there is clearly no screen rather than it just being missing.
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