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Phoenix Glass replaces a windshield, Betaseal/Essex adhesives are used to install windshields on nearly every domestic vehicle and two thirds of all vehicles manufactured worldwide to help restore a vehicle to its original strength and retain a windshield during a crash. Not all adhesives have the strength required to allow the vehicle safety systems to perform correctly. To assure that the windshield is replaced properly it's absolutely imperative that the correct adhesives as well as adhesive primers are used.
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Glass Facts Auto Glass comes from a variety of different manufacturers and different degrees of quality.
The
information below will help you sort out
the difference. There are two important OEM benefits: An OEM replacement windshield is produced from original equipment tooling. This type of windshield will have the appearance of your car's original windshield and will fit properly in the window opening making noise, leakage, as well as cosmetic problems, much less likely. OEM auto glass manufacturers work hand in hand with automobile manufacturers to enhance overall functionality and improved performance. Because of their close work with auto manufacturers, OEM manufacturers have a greater knowledge and understanding of the engineering demands that the vehicle can place on the windshield in both normal and crash conditions and their replacement windshields are made using the same quality assurance systems they use for the original vehicle manufacturer. Safety glass is used in all auto glass. It is manufactured to reduce the likelihood of personal injury when and if it should break. There are two different types which are called laminated and tempered glass.
Windshields as well as some side and rear windows are made from a lamination process. This type of glass actually consists of two pieces of glass, bonded together by a "PVB" (polyvinyl butyrate) vinyl layer in between the two layers of glass. In the event of an accident this vinyl layer serves several purposes, it cushions your head during impact, helps keep the vehicles occupants contained within the vehicle and also helps keep many small light weight foreign objects from entering the passenger compartment. If a windshield breaks during impact the majority of broken pieces will generally adhere to the plastic lining. The majority of side and rear windows manufactured consist of tempered glass which is produced with a process that involves heating the glass to more than 1,100°F and then rapidly cooling it. This results in the outside surfaces of the glass becoming harder than the center of glass which makes it stronger than regular annealed glass of the same thickness.
If broken, tempered glass will break up into very small pieces which are less likely to cause as serious of an injury as annealed glass would.
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