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When
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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Yes, but due to economics Phoenix Glass cannot assume responsibility for breakage of your new or used glass. Also note that if we do not provide the glass to you directly from an auto glass manufacturer or one of our authorized OEM or OEE aftermarket auto glass distributors we cannot warranty the glass itself. Also please note that due to the liabilities as well as cost considerations we do not offer this service for mobile on-site installation, we provide this service only in house. There are major safety pitfalls you should be aware of that come into play when installing a customer's used or new auto glass. It is highly possible that the bonding surface maybe unstable or contaminated. Contamination can come from many sources and can consist of one or more substances. It is difficult if not impossible for an auto glass technician to accurately identify the contaminant and know of any special treatment procedure for removing it. This was and remains a problem even on "new auto glass". A used glass that has been out in the world for a number of years and removed by who knows what method from a vehicle has even more hurdles to over come.
Surface
contamination is and always has been an on going problem in the auto
glass industry. In 2003 after alot of extensive research Dow
Automotive implemented a working solution for the problem.
Dow's mission was to define the types of contamination and provide a
practical solution that is effective on a wide range of contaminants
and safe for the auto glass technician doing the actual work.
Dow concluded that the contamination could be classified into one of
two types, "primary" or "secondary" and that both
could be effectively treated by the technician using materials
typically on hand in any properly equipped auto glass installation
center. Most contamination can be classified as
"primary" contamination that is the direct result of the
manufacturing process or shipping from the manufacturer to the
distributor's warehouse. Dow developed a "wet scrub"
procedure for "new" auto glass parts a technician can use
that can virtually clean and make just about any "new" auto
glass part useable. Secondary contamination, is typically the
result of handling or transporting the glass part and is easily
treated with a good "commercial" glass cleaner such at
BETACLEAN GC 800 Glass and Surface Cleaner from Dow Automotive. If an auto glass technician "wet scrubs" a piece of glass more than three or four times and it does not appear that the contaminant is removed, Dow recommends that a new piece of glass from a different manufacturer should be used. By the later half of 2008, Dow Automotive has had nearly five years of proven results with this "wet scrub" process and it is still being supported by continued testing and well over a million installations.
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