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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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FAQ......Do
It Yourself related questions
Yes you can, but if it bonds to the vehicle we don't recommend it for many reasons, safety being the key one and the fact that you won't have any type of warranty on the breakage of the glass in question. In a bonded windshield, side lite or backglass installation for example there are many items and steps necessary to properly install them. It is critically important that a proper adhesive system be used. They must have primers used on the pinchweld and glass and even the type of glass cleaner used is critical to the safety of the installation. The bottom line is we highly recommend that you use a professional auto glass technician to install your auto glass.
It all depends on who you talk to but here at Phoenix Glass we're going to tell you Absolutely Not! If you were to install it with butyl tape and your vehicle was involved in a severe accident it may allow your window to literally pop out of the vehicle allowing the passengers to be ejected from within it. Todays auto glass isn't just designed to keep the elements out of your vehicle, it's a major part that is designed to be an integral part of the vehicles structure and it must be installed properly with an adhesive called Urethane. Without it, the specifications the vehicle manufacture engineers built the vehicle to are, pardon the pun, literally out the window. Actual figures, depending on whose data you use, say that Butyl Tape is reported to have a holding strength of 60 psi where as it's reported that Urethane has a holding strength of 600 psi. Whomevers figures you use it still comes out with the same end result which is that Butyl, in no way, has anywhere near the holding strength that Urethane does. Another common mistake we see alot is people buying butyl tape off the auto parts store shelf without the compatible primers necessary to make it adhere to the intended surface. Without the intended pinchweld and glass primers not to mention proper compatible paint preparation on the pinchweld, butyl tape just like Urethane, won't achieve any where near the holding strength its manufactures intended it to. Even the type of glass cleaner used on an auto glass installation is critical. Auto makers didn't make the transition to Urethane just for the fun or economics of it. Like everything else in life they learned as they went along and what they learned from all the data they collected over the years at the cost of serious injures and loss of life was that the vehicles they were producing had a serious short fall in the area of glass retention.
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My
car had a tree limb fall on it. The limb made a dent in the roof and
broke my windshield. I'm
planning
on doing
the
auto body repair as
well as
paint work myself
and then
I plan on having Phoenix Glass install my windshield.
Is
there any special body or paint prep work I need to do prior to the
installation of the windshield? There sure is! In the body work part of the operation I-Car says....if body repair was completed on the pinchweld, it's impairitive that body filler not be used.
Windshields
should not ever be installed over body filler.
In the paint
work part of the operation I-CAR says.... If topcoats are being
applied, masking is to be applied over the primer to prevent topcoats
from being sprayed onto the surface of the pinchweld. There is alot more to be said to answer your question. The pit falls in doing your own auto body repair and paint work are tremendous and way beyond the scope of this website. The link below will take you an artical on the subject on the I-CAR web site • I've purchased a small pick up truck that was wrecked in the front and rear end. I am doing all the engine, body and some of the glass work myself. I was working on reinstalling the bed of the truck while your auto glass technicians were here installing my windshield and back glass. They noticed that I was reusing the original bolts that hold it in place and told me that the bolts are not supposed to be reused and referred to them as one time fasteners. Aside from being tarnished the bolts look brand new and don't appear to be bent and the threads are not damaged so why shouldn't I reuse them? Phoenix Glass technicians have some of the same issues arise on the many types of auto glass installations they perform on a daily basis. Due to the complexities of todays vehicles and your safety we require our technicians to possess a thorough knowledge of how all the different components of a vehicle work together in unison. "One time use fasteners" are used in many areas of a vehicles construction. In auto glass some of the typical types of one time use hardware include rivets, certain nylon retainers, plastic clips, cotter pins, and even some of the washers. More autobody and mechanical uses go on to include fasteners such as torque to yield bolts and coated fasteners. Hardware that is considered one time use is generally determined by its type, coating, as well as location. For a more detailed answer to your question click this link and it will take you to a page on the I-CAR website.
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