Auto Glass Advice From Vermont
If you need a windshield replacement or windshield repair in Maine, Vermont, or New Hampshire, you might want some good direction and advice. It’s not hard to find good advice from auto glass professionals, but it’s also quite easy to get bad advice from non-professionals.
One example: an online forum member asks other members what they recommend she do to prevent her cracked windshield from getting worse. She got many answers, some unhelpful: self-repair methods, including using clear plastic and a carcinogenic glue, and using clear nail polish, Super and Crazy Glue, liquid porcelain, adhesives, or windshield-repair kits; tinting the windshield; etching around the crack with a glass cutter or diamond; covering the crack with duct, cello, or packaging tape; drilling a hole at the end of the crack; keeping away from bumps and potholes; keeping away from summer heat and sunlight and winter defrosting; putting in a junkyard windshield; refraining from using the car; and smashing the windshield out of the car with a baseball bat. The functional responses were about professionally repairing or replacing the windshield for minimal or zero cost.
It’s really super important to stop windshield cracking from spreading; or the windshield will surely need replacing at some point in the future. Some states have a rule that driving a vehicle with cracking that is more than six inches away from the outer edges of the windshield is illegal. Even when a person doesn’t have insurance to cover a fix, a ten or twenty dollar repair fee is so much less than the cost of replacing a windshield. A crack that is smaller than a dollar bill is usually fixable. It’s difficult to understand why a person would even spend $1 on a possibly ineffective or even destructive self-fix when it’s easy to find $10 trained-technician fixes or insurance-covered fixes.
Windshield replacements that are do-it-yourself are unsafe. This is because if a windshield is not properly installed it can’t do the work it is supposed to-instead, it will pop out during an accident. A windshield is supposed to stay in place during an accident so it can act as a safety device and keep the roof from collapsing in a rollover situation, keep the people in the car, and keep the airbags in the car to protect the people. And a windshield is also supposed to keep weather, wind, bugs, and rocks out of the car. Windshield installations that are completed by properly trained certified technicians using only OEM-specification windshields and OEM adhesive products are the only installations you can ultimately depend on for your safety. This is also why it’s not wise to replace your windshield with one from a junkyard.
Some Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine auto glass providers give G-12 warrantees on their windshield installations, meaning that if your new windshield breaks or gets damaged by normal road hazards within one year of the replacement, they will fix or replace it. They also guarantee rear window and windshield installations for as long as the owner has the vehicle. Check out the very best New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont windshield dealers.
Learn more about New Hampshire Auto Glass. Stop by the Portland Glass website where you can find out all about the bestNew Hampshire windshields and the best installations.
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