Tips for protecting and repairing a windshield
publicat in: Blog // Publicata pe 26.11.2018
How do you protect a windshield? How many times did you experience firsthand the effects of a pebble launched into your windshield? A small crack into your windshield is very expensive and should be addressed as soon as possible.
Initially, the windshields were made of glass, but due to the fact that accidents resulted in serious injuries, over the years the recipe was improved. Nowadays windshield has a multilayer composition made of laminated glass (a tempered glass with superior properties). The most important element of this glass is the quartz mixed with several ingredients and treated in special furnaces. The windshield is shaped by two "sheets" of this tempered and transparent glass, with a layer of polymer applied in between. Due to lamination, broken shards will not detach, thus avoiding injury. Laminated glass technology makes the windscreen unbreakable, however not immune to cracks.
That's why it took parallel technologies to develop the windscreen durability against scratches and blows, diminishing the maintenance cost for a car. For increasing the glass durability, the Diamond Protect brand using the German nanotechnology developed a revolutionary product, Universal High Tech Windshield Protection, thus decreasing considerably our concerns related to windshield safety in traffic. Based on the extraordinary properties of nanoparticles, this solution largely solves the problems caused by the impact of our windshields with the exterior environment. Thus, by applying a layer of Windshield Protection on the windscreen surface, it will be protected from scratches and blows that usually occur in traffic (pebbles, twigs, objects thrown or dropped randomly) and partial to sheer force attacks. The glass protected with Windshield Protection develops 9H hardness (very high and comparable to sapphire’s), which means practically an impact resistance on the windshield 6 times higher compared to the resistance before treatment. Now if we keep in mind that the impact is expressed by the product between the mass of a body and the speed at which it hits an area this means that at equal speeds the treated surface supports a pebble blow 6 times larger compared with the blow that cracked the windshield in the first place. Tough, right? It is worth every penny invested in the Windshield Protection solution launched by PIATRAONLINE. Besides, it comes with extra benefits: it is transparent, invisible and wipes water away quickly from your windshield, yet it is also dirt repellant and prevents ice development. Only major accidents or deliberate attacks with sharp objects may affect the protected windscreen.
And if the windshield cracks, we should apply a duct tape as soon as possible, for preventing the crack from advancing. Afterwards, we can avoid replacing the windshield with a new one by trying to repair it. Essentially the repair is carried out in a specialized workshop and involves filling the cracks with a polymer followed by drying the surface with an ultraviolet lamp. The subsequent finishing transforms the ugly fissure into a small point. Unfortunately not all damaged windscreens can be repaired, therefore strengthening it with the Windshield Protection solution from PIATRAONLINE is an affordable and important step to safety.