| Re: [GMCnet] Ken. Can we have new windshields installed in Amana Iowa in September. [message #328536 is a reply to message #328533] |
Tue, 23 January 2018 09:52  |
Ken Burton
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Registered: January 2004
Location: Hebron, Indiana
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Fogged windshields are a cosmetic thing. You can get by with them as long as it does not bother you. Most of them replaced are for fogging. I can not tell you if the replacement ones will last any longer than the original ones before they start to fog again. All you can do is try to seal them up around the edges before and after they are installed and hope for the best.
These guys have something black in a can with a dauber that they paint around the edges prior to installing them. Then after they are installed but before the lock bead is inserted they also put some polyurethane? sealant in between the rubber gasket and the glass. How much good it does over time, I do not know. They did mine about 14 years ago and they have not started to show any fogging yet. I'm not sure what causes the fogging. Is it Air or moisture or? I remember when I was young seeing all of the old cars in the junk yard with badly fogged windshields. I do not see that in the junk yards today. Maybe now the cars are crushed and recycled before they get that old. I was told by someone at Coach Glass years ago that storing them in a vacuum would prevent the fogging. I do not know anything more than that.
I have a 1978 Eleganza currently in my hangar. It spent it's last 19 years sitting inside a nice cement floor pole barn unused. I have not noticed any fogging but I also was not specifically looking it. Maybe those did not fog because it was not out in the sun fo at least 1/2 of it's life. .
I'm sorry I do not have the answers. I have never installed a windshield in my life. I have just organized the installs and watched others do it.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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