What is your windshield IQ?

North Shore Auto Glass Repair & Replacement

Professional auto glass replacement and repair is critical to your auto's ability to be driven safely as well as everyone's protection. Having sub-standard replacement glass or low-quality installation services is hazardous for everyone in the car.

Your windshield is more than a shield for wind. It is also there to protect you from flying rocks, sand, birds, shredded tires, severe weather and one hundred other likely dangers. What is your windshield IQ?

Most automotive safety experts rank the windshield as the third most important safety component in today’s vehicles, right behind seat-belts and airbags. Laws require seat-belt use and prevent tampering with airbags, but there are no laws about quality windshield replacements.Below are just a few things to be aware of if you need work performed. Discovering the answers before getting any repairs performed will make the experience easier.

To Consider:

1. Is your new windshield or window OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) certified? If you don't know, you should make it a point to find out before the work is done.
2. Is the glass professional qualified? 
3. Will the glass company work with your insurance? This is an important question so be sure to ask.
4. Is there a warranty on the glass? Is it in writing?
5. Is there any guarantee for the work? If an issue does occur, do you believe it will get taken care of to meet your needs? 

All Glass Doctor North Vancouver auto glass experts are fully qualified to make your vehicle's glass it's safest. All of our windshields are OEM certified and we are an ICBC Express location. We can also work with most other insurance providers including those from out of province. All of out windshields come with a G12 Guarantee, in writing  that if you require a windshield replacement within a year of the original date that we replaced it, we will repair your windshield or replace it. Terms & Conditions apply.

Split and raked flat windshield on a 1952 DeSoto. 

A little bit of history: Early windshields were made of ordinary window glass, but that could lead to serious injuries in the event of a crash. A series of lawsuits led up to the development of stronger windshields.  They were replaced with windshields made of toughened glass and were fitted in the frame using a rubber or neoprene seal. The hardened glass shattered into many mostly harmless fragments when the windshield broke. These windshields, however, could shatter from a simple stone chip. In 1919, Henry Ford solved the problem of flying debris by using the new French technology of glass laminating. Windshields made using this process were two layers of glass with a cellulose inner layer. This inner layer held the glass together when it fractured. Between 1919 and 1929, Ford ordered the use of laminated glass on all of his vehicles.

Modern, glued-in windshields contribute to the vehicle's rigidity, but the main force for innovation has historically been the need to prevent injury from sharp glass fragments. Almost all nations now require windshields to stay in one piece even if broken, except if pierced by a strong force. Properly installed automobile windshields are also essential to safety; along with the roof of the car, they provide protection to the vehicle's occupants in the case of a roll-over accident

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