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Looking for a New Ride? Discover How Visor Simplifies Your Car Search
Partners –Explore the entire car market effortlessly with Visor’s user-focused platform.
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Skip the Shop: Wrench.com Brings Trusted Auto Repair Right to Your Driveway
Mobile mechanics, upfront pricing, and zero hassle—why Wrench.com is changing how drivers handle car repairs.
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Early Cars And The Development of Auto Glass
Tips –The popularity of early automobiles was stoked into a red-hot frenzy over a period of 20 years. This period was known as “brass era” cars, as manufacturers were playing with the design and power systems of vehicles in a variety of ways. Horseless carriages, as cars during the time were known, could be powered with…
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Current and Future Auto Glass Developments
Tips –Modern cars have a plethora of complex and often sophisticated technologies built into the windshield. For example, windshields are growing longer, more curved, and some are even taking over a larger portion of the vehicle’s overall structure such as the roof or even wrapping along the side of the vehicle. The original fabricators of…
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Auto Glass Safety Regulations
Tips –Even though safety glass became widely used by most car manufacturers, it had yet to be given a standard for quality and safety by 1963. At this time, Ralph Nader-a lawyer and consumer advocate who later went on to campaign for presidency on three separate occasions-released his book Unsafe at Any Speed. While his book…
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How Different Types of Car Windows are Replaced
Curious about how different types of car windows are replaced? While this is not a detailed step-by-step guide for a DIY fix, this guide will help you gather general information about the process for each window location on your vehicle. But before we get into the nitty-gritty, we need to make a PSA about safety…
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Commonly Asked Questions About Car Windows
How Do Car Windows Protect You? When it comes to the safety features of your vehicle, your windshield is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Instead, you probably think of your seat belts, airbags, or the frame of your car. It may surprise you to learn that your windshield is actually essential…
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Put Down the Scraper: How to Prevent Ice on Windshields
Tips –Have you ever watched the videos of boiling water freezing instantly when thrown in the air? It has to be below -30F to do that. It doesn’t have to be that cold for winter weather to make driving dangerous. Simple frost on your windshield can critically obscure your line of sight. In most states, operating a vehicle…
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Beat the Heat: How to Protect Your Car From the Sun
Tips –No doubt you know that freezing temperatures can damage your vehicle in the winter months. But did you know that summer months can be just as hazardous? Scorching summer temperatures can cause tire blowouts, overheated engines, seat and dashboard damage. And can even crack your windshield. Is it really that hot in the US? Yes.…
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What Every Leased Car Owner Needs To Know About Windshield Repairs
Tips –So you’re driving to work in your newly-leased car, wide awake, going the speed limit, not texting, not eating jelly donuts, hands at 2 and 10, minding your own business, when suddenly—smack! The truck in front of you launches a pebble projectile right at your windshield. What starts out as a little impact ding spreads…
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How Often You Should Inspect Your Tires
Tips –As if you don’t already have enough to worry about in your life–dental appointments, anemic IRAs, and whether or not to get your mocha ‘with whip’–now there’s one more thing on your list of stressors: the tire pressure light on your dash that suddenly lit up. You walk around the car, eyeball the tires, and…
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Things You Must Not Do With A Cracked Windshield
Tips –A cracked windshield can have a big impact on how your vehicle looks—and it can be annoying to drive, too. But worse than that, a crack in any car window can lead to expensive problems or even endanger you and your passengers. Having your windshield repaired by an expert should be a priority, but sometimes…
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Should You Really Do It Yourself? The Paradox of Build-Your-Own-Cars and Safety
Safety –The evolution of cars today is on an a massive upswing. In just ten small years we have gone from creating cars that simply had rear cameras, to cars that can parallel park themselves. Cars today are equipped with wifi signals, sensors for weather, and even sensors that tell you if you are about to…
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The Rise of Smart Safety Technology In Cars
The night is young, and you’ve just finished a nice dinner with a couple glasses of wine. You and your spouse decide to grab a sweet dessert at the local ice cream shop before heading home. After getting into your car, you are met with a surprise–the ignition won’t turn. A message pops up on…
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How Can Your Windshield Save Your Life in A Collision with a Train?
It seems an abnormal amount of strange news headlines come from Florida. Being an online business that is especially focused on vehicle safety, we cycle through the news with a special kind of fervour. After all, we want to insure that the members of our community–you! –get the best and most up to date information…
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Tesla Breaks The Consumer Reporting Agency
News –“Its near-instant g-forces can otherwise be achieved only by leaping off a building—literally.” –Consumer Reports The team here at Glass.net already geeks out over the latest car technologies, but reading that line in the latest Consumer Report about Tesla really got our attention! Let us fanboy for just a minute here. First of all, let’s…
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Glass.net Examines A Recent Google Report And Discovers That We’re Searching
News –Glass.net was created to connect local glass shops with consumers. Part of that is finding high-quality shops that keep up with the latest in consumer safety and best practices. Part of that is also helping educate consumers on glass safety and choosing the shop that’s best for their safety and budget. The most vital part…
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How Auto Insurance Can Help Repair Your Windshield
Note: This is a guest post from Auto Insurance Discounters. Driving down the highway can be an exhilarating experience, which can be quickly ruined if a rock cracks your windshield. With people driving more than 10 billion miles across America as recently as November 2015, the chances of this mishap are more common than you…