Side Window Repair

[speedyprowsr]

Maybe others have run across this, but this was a first for me. I had a customer come in today with a combination chip on the passenger side window. The vehicle was a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox with privacy glass. The window has two layers just like windshield glass. I have never heard of, much less performed, this type of repair. I went ahead and repaired the chip as though it was on the windshield and the results were great, happy customer and all that.

Has any other techs done this type of repair?

[paulrsf]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought car windshields have three layers of glass not two.

[speedyprowsr]

Maybe I am wrong, but the last I knew windshield glass was made of two pieces of glass with a laminate bonded in between.

[ghost rider]

Maybe others have run across this, but this was a first for me. I had a customer come in today with a combination chip on the passenger side window. The vehicle was a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox with privacy glass. The window has two layers just like windshield glass. I have never heard of, much less performed, this type of repair. I went ahead and repaired the chip as though it was on the windshield and the results were great, happy customer and all that.

Has any other techs done this type of repair?

Yes, I have done a few on the older Suburbans back in the 80's. The window is two layers of glass with a PVB layer bonded in between, just like a windshield. Any laminated window is repairable with the same technique as windshield repair. Congratulations on having the common sense and ingenuity to recognize this, most techs would have scratched their head and walked away.

[screenman]

paulrsf To answer your question I am afraid your are wrong in most the majority of car windshields are just two pieces of glass with PVB between them sandwich like. There is extreme security glass, up to ten layers is the thickest I have repaired.

[Kgobin]

Did you read the bug on the window?

[Frank EU]

Indeed there will be passenger cars with laminated body glass. There's nothing new here.

Here in Europa we have Peugeot, Citroen, but also BMW (and others) where laminated side glass has been offered.
It reduces the noice and will keep the bandits out

Now, since we talk laminated glass, it is not surprising to think and believe that we should be able to repair this.
In my opinion, but this is my opinion, we should not. Although we are a genuine repair only vendor, we do not recommend this.
The glass layers are usually too thin to bother with it -we don't like the cosmetic result.

But you should be able to perform a repair. Why not? Play with it, learn!
Just inform your customer that the result will be a more visible repair. More visible than normally when you repair windshields.

And like Screenman mentioned, we too have repaired security glass (on Brinks kinda vehicles). Not a big deal.

[J.T.Window]

My bus barn customers call me to do laminated side windows on school buses.

[Glasseye]

Security vehicles with curved front screens have 5 ply glass known in the trade as "anti - bandit" ( i.e. 2 layers of PVB and 3 layers of glass ) if you are not sure, look at the safety markings on the glass, most glass manufacturers use a // to symbolise standard laminated or /// to indicate antibandit. These symbols will also be present on laminated side glass but the PVB interlayer may be thinner ( automotive quality) as compared to front facing windshields ( windscreen quality).