Windshield Repair

Kern County Roadwork Leads to Dozens of Windshield Repairs and Replacements for Locals

April 17, 2012

A Kern County Roads Department project that was started last October 3 has now become the cause of dozens of windshield repairs and replacements for locals, as well as acrimonious relations between residents of the area and the county officials.  The chip seal roadwork has apparently been performed quite poorly—at least, if the locals are [...]

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Monroe County Township Residents Forced to Get Windshield Repair Jobs by Vandal Attacks

February 1, 2012

Another spate of auto glass vandalisms has been breaking out in Bedford Township, Monroe County.  This is yet another area in the United States to be hit by vandals, who have caused several thousand dollars of damage already, usually from windshield repair and windshield replacement jobs.  While the number of victims have fortunately not climbed [...]

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Corning to Work With Hyundai on Gorilla Auto Glass for Blue2

November 30, 2011

If the name Corning rings a bell, the tune would most likely be one coming from a smart phone.  The American company is known for its Gorilla Glass product, which is basically a very robust yet thin type of sheet glass currently used as the screen cover glass for many smart phones, laptops, and tablets. [...]

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How to Defrost Your Windshield Without Risking a Windshield Replacement This Winter

November 28, 2011

Winter generally heralds the time of frosted and iced-over windshields, and people deal with this problem in various ways.  There are some whose cars already have defrosting technology: for instance, some of Ford’s cars have something the auto maker calls “Quickclear”, a defrosting system engineered into the windshield during production.  However, for the vast majority [...]

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Ford Motors Introduces New Technology for Attaching Windshield Auto Glass

November 26, 2011

The Ford Motor Company has just announced that it is going to be introducing a new way of attaching windshield auto glass to the car body’s frame.  The new attachment method has already been patented and is a truly new process.  Ford stated that the move to the new technology was partly to make the [...]

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Indian Man Arrested for Damaging Front Auto Glass on Judge’s Car

November 18, 2011

A man in Odisha, a state of India, has just been arrested for dealing damage to a local judge’s car this week.  The car was the official vehicle of the judge, M. K. Panda, and the man who smashed the auto glass on the vehicle was Dukhishyam Patra, a local of the area. Dukhishyam Patra, [...]

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How Long Should a Good Windshield Repair Take?

September 7, 2011

This is a great point of contention among windshield repair experts all around the world, who often differ on whether a repair should go over the 15-minute mark or below it.  Most of the time, the organizing difference has to do with the training they have received, as certain training facilities and groups consciously privilege [...]

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Understanding the True Purpose of Windshield Repair

September 6, 2011

There is usually a slight misunderstanding that occurs at the end of a windshield repair job, which is that a customer inspects the repaired auto glass and deems the work of the technician unsatisfactory because of “the scar”.  It must be admitted, of course, that there are some scars that should indeed be taken as [...]

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Windshield Replacement Calls Still Higher Than Windshield Repair Calls, Say Auto Glass Technicians

September 1, 2011

The simple logic is this: windshield repair is far better than windshield replacement because (a) it costs less, on average less than a quarter of the cost of a replacement, (b) it is faster to implement, because an installation would naturally take longer than a repair, (c) insurance companies often waive the deductible for windshield [...]

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How to Ensure that Your Windshield Repair is Flat and Polished

August 25, 2011

A common complaint from people who have just tried to do their own windshield repair is that they can never seem to get their repaired glass as flat and smooth as they would like, which would definitely present a cosmetic problem to the more finicky car owner.  Smoothing an auto glass repair is quite simple, [...]

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