| All of us know what a windscreen is. It's the | | | | Today, most of the newly manufactured vehicles |
| biggest glass that you can find which s located in | | | | windshields are made out of laminated safety |
| front of your vehicle. It serves as a protection | | | | glass. This safety glass is made up of two curved |
| from wind rain and dust and can even save your | | | | sheets of glass. Remember that stuck between |
| life when an accident happens or can be a threat | | | | the two sheets of glass is in fact a layer of |
| to you if not properly installed. Others also use | | | | plastic. This has been laminated between the two |
| the term windshield for windscreen. | | | | sheets to provide safety. The total device is in |
| You would know whether the scratch on your | | | | fact fastened to the frame of the front window. |
| windscreen can be repaired or not by rubbing the | | | | As compared with the old vehicles, the windshield |
| scratch with your fingernail. Such a scratch is of | | | | is really made from hard glass. In maintaining the |
| two types. If the scratch feels smooth after | | | | glass in the frame, they are using a rubber or |
| running your finger nail over the glass, it is called a | | | | neoprene as a stopper. |
| surface scratch. On the contrary, if your fingernail | | | | A feasible alternative is windscreen repair, which |
| gets stuck in the scratch, deem that the scratch | | | | most insurance companies now accept in place of |
| is pretty deep and the whole windscreen may | | | | replacement. In fact, they even waive the client's |
| have to be replaced, as the scratch cannot be | | | | deductible should he or she choose to repair |
| repaired. | | | | instead of replace the car windscreen. This makes |
| Repairs save the factory seal. Repairing a | | | | financial sense to insurance companies too, |
| windscreen may last 15 to 20 minutes and | | | | because they save millions each year this way. By |
| commonly paid by your Insurance Company | | | | repairing instead of replacing an auto windscreen, |
| through waving your deductible. Majority of the | | | | the original windshield retains the integrity of its |
| repairs enhances the vision and prevents the | | | | factory seal. In short, everyone wins. Windscreen |
| windscreen from breaking. To find a good | | | | repair is a high margin specialty service, making it |
| windscreen repair service get referrals from | | | | a major industry. |
| friends or neighbors that have had this service | | | | To sum it up, fixing your windscreen instead of |
| done before or call your insurance agent. You can | | | | replacing them will save money and time and |
| also check on the yellow pages on the glass or | | | | perhaps your life. |
| windshield repair. | | | | |