A Chevy Tahoe with a rusty pinchweld from a prior poor windshield installation
FAQ > Poor Workmanship on Replacement Windshield, Side Door, Quarter and Rear Back Glass Windows, Page 3
A Chevrolet C4500 with rusty pinchweld from a prior poor windshield installation
Photos of a rusty pinchweld on a Ford pickup truck caused from a previous poor windshield installation
A very nice Mercury Mountaineer SUV that previously had a poor windshield installation.
It
only
took
about
two
minutes
to
glance
around
this
sad
looking
replacement
windshield
installation
to
see
someone
sure
didn’t
know
what
they
were
doing.
This
nice
looking
SUV,
not
to
mention
it’s
owner,
had
really
been
put
through
the
ringer.
There
just
wasn’t
any
room
left
on
the
pinchweld
to
make
an
attempt
at
sealing
any
of
the
holes
so
the
windshield
had
to
be
removed
and
completely
redone
from
top
to
bottom.
Before
we
began
work
on
this
vehicle,
in
an
effort
to
save
the
customer
money,
we
advised
them
to
return
to
the
glass
company
that
originally
installed
this
windshield
and
have
them
redo
the
installation
but
the
customer
declined.
They
commented
that
they
had
been
through
enough
and
would
never
go
back
and
paying
for
a
whole
new
windshield
installation
was
the
way
they
wanted
to
go
and
in
the
end
after
seeing
the
poor
workmanship
on
the
windshield
their
vehicle
endured
we’re
glad
they
didn’t
return
to
them.
The
windshield
in
this
vehicle
was
installed
so
poorly
it
was
hard
to
believe.
For
starters
you
can
easily
tell
that
there
were
no
primers
used
on
the
pinchweld
by
the
rust
in
the
tool
scratches
and
to
top
it
off
the
windshield
was
carelessly
installed
on
top
of
a
broken
piece
of
glass
left
over
from
the
original
windshield
just
below
the
urethane
adhesive
bead.
The
urethane
that
bonds
the
windshield
to
the
vehicle
was
applied
in
a
terribly
hap
hazard
manor.
It’s
also
evident
that
there
were
multiple
attempts
taken
to
seal
the
leaks
from
the
inside
and
outside
of
the
vehicle
by
the
glass
company
that
originally
installed
it.
Looking
at
all
of
it
and
hearing
the
stories
of
events
in
an
effort
to
have
it
fixed
that
the
customer
endured
it
is
no
wonder
they
wouldn’t
return
the
vehicle
to
the
offending
company.
A Chevrolet Monte Carlo that had a previous poor workmanship windshield installation in cold weather.
You
can
plainly
see
that
the
flange
of
the
windshield
molding
held
the
windshield
from
being
allowed
to
sink
down
to
the
correct
hight
within
the
vehicles
pinchweld
flange
causing
the
windshield
to
sit
extremely
elevated
above
the
vehicles
body.
The
thick
lines
at
the
top
of
the
moldings
in
photos
1
and
2
are
the
cut
off
top
flange
edge
of
the
molding
that
lap
over
the
cars
body.
We
cut
them
off
to
show
exactly
where
it
is
in
elevation
above
the
car
body.
The
molding
should
be
sitting
down
just
barely
above
the
level
of
the
body
the
thickness
of
the
top
flange
edge
of
molding.
In
photo
3
you
can
actually
see
the
massively
tall
bead
of
urethane
adhesive
that
was
applied
to
compensate
for
the
situation.
The
Monte
Carlo
is
one
the
most
popular
vehicles
in
America
at
the
time
of
this
writing
and
the
windshield
molding
on
this
car
and
many
makes
and
models
of
vehicles
just
like
it
are
very
rigid
when
they
are
cold.
They
should
never
be
done
in
cold
weather
because
without
an
extremely
warm
windshield,
molding,
adhesive
and
vehicle
the
windshield
absolutely
will
not seat properly. You can find out more information on this issue on our
FAQ Mobile On site Installation Service page.
A Nissan Murano that had a previously installed windshield done with very poor workmanship.
This
replacement
windshield
installation
looked
great
from
the
outside
but
once
we
removed
the
windshield
we
found
it
was
installed
with
enough
urethane
adhesive
for
two
or
more
vehicles
and
it
had
a
large
gapping
hole
in
the
right
hand
bottom
of
the
seal.
We’ve
no
idea
how
the
urethane
bead
got
where
it
was
to
create
this
hole
other
then
a
careless
installer
ran
the
bead
like
that
and
didn’t
realize
it. You can actually see the liquid we use to lubricate our cutting tool running out the bottom of the adhesive seal.
A Saturn Vue that had a previously installed windshield done with very poor workmanship.
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