> Check your deductible on comprehensive insurance coverage.

It's $500 (plus, most likely, an increased premium when I reinsure. Insurance companies are not designed to pay money but to make money...).

> to the next spot. Plus there is the potential to introduce unevenness
> in the finished glass surface.

My father-in-law has a junker car in his driveway, I'm tempted to scratch the windshield and then try to polish it out just to see what it's like.