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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. |
> FAQ......Examples We Have Experienced of Poor Workmanship
back to factory specifications was in Excess of $1,500.00 Dollars. This vehicle actually had the wrong windshield installed in it (by another company who would not answer calls from the owner) and rain water was blowing through the bottom of the windshield from a large hole all over the heads up display unit on the top of the dash not to mention everything below it. Both the outside pillar mouldings had to be replaced because the installer bonded them to the vehicle with urethane adhesive rather than using the proper fasteners (8 pop rivets) to retain them in place. The down side to doing something like that is that the moldings have to be destroyed to remove them.
to be able to provide the crash and roll over protection Ford Motor Company required of it. What you see in the photos above is an example of what happens to your vehicle's pinchweld when no primers are used prior to the installation of a new glass.
This
Chevrolet Pick up will require major paint work as well as body work This particular vehicle actually arrived at our service center with the back glass laying in the bed of the truck where it landed when it fell out due to the totally improper installation by one of our competitors. It had two holes made by a gasket scraper that were driven completely through the body on the bottom on both sides.
A Town & Country Van that was doomed from the very beginning of it's windshield installation. For starters this windshield was burned out of the vehicle which damaged the paint. At that point it should have been taken to a body shop for paint repair. To cover up the body damage that was done by overheating the vehicle during the process, the installer used a wide moulding that lays on top of the body rather then the moulding the manufacturers designed it to have which fits inside the pinchweld opening.
There were no primers used on the damaged pinchweld surface and as you can see by the photos the urethane was applied in a very unprofessional manor. In an effort to stop water from entering the van as well as keep the moulding from falling off, the van was further subjected to applications of several different types of sealers applied here and there in a hap hazard manor.
This 1994
Dodge Stealth required
major paint work
Another
example of what happens to your vehicle's pinchweld when no primers
are used prior to the installation of a new glass.
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