Glas Tek Windshield Repair Blog

According to the national windshield repair association, the location of the damage or crack and the actual size of the damage or crack or both important in the decision to recommend repair. Also known as the acute area or your primary vision area, this is the area of...

These things are JUNK waste on time and money. All they are good for is screwing up a windshield repair . Sure you may get lucky on a small percentage of breaks. but 95% of the time they will mess the repair up. WHY? three reasons off the top of my head 1. inferior...

Think of the black area around your windshield like trim on your house, it finishes it off. It also keeps the UV rays of the sun from breaking down the factory seal (urethane). The most interesting fact is that 75% of windshields that crack get hit by rocks in this...

Windshield repair resin goes bad over time thats why we never use resin that is over one year old to insure our customers the best products on market. The fact is we go through our product so fast our chemical is never over six months old.

A few times a year I will do a rock chip repair on a windshield that has a sticker on it that says "Diamond-Fusion USA treated glass", This product is supposed to make the surface of your windshield stronger. The idea behind it is to make rocks skip off your...

In the auto glass business it is referred to as the third visor, Just like the Visors above the driver and passenger side of the vehicle it helps block the glare of the suns ray's and cut down on UV exposure.

Windshield repair is an affordable alternative as compared to windshield replacement, in the St. Louis market you can pay any where from $120.00 to around $ 50.00 for mobile windshield chip repair service, and anywhere from $75.00 to 95.00 for windshield long crack...

Customers will sometime ask me if a bug deflector will help prevent windshield damage ? I have done many repairs on windshields that have bug deflectors on them. It may protect the paint on the hood and in some cases they could help deflect a rock, but most of the...

Customers always asked if i take credit cards, The answer is always "you bet", I have been using Squareup.com since it came out, I run all my credit card transactions through my iPhone, It makes my mobile windshield repair business a snap. It will give you instance...

Every now and then a customer will ask me, When I am driving around with a crack across my windshield will it collapse in on me? The answer is no.. The windshield is made up off two layers of glass with a piece of safety laminate between the them, This construction...

There is one type of windshield break that can be repaired, it is a partial bullseye or a small bullseye as long as you dry it out first with a dry out tool. The tool heats the glass up to well over 200 degrees which allows the moisture to evaporate out of the damage....

Dennis - As a fellow WSR business owner I wanted to thank you for your reply to the article "Is Windshield Repair All That It's Cracked Up to Be?" in the Wall Street Journal  about three months ago. I think you did a great job setting the facts straight.  It's nice to...