How to Protect Auto Glass and Avoid a Windshield Replacement in Winter

Winter is a tough time, not just for the farming folk but also for urban dwellers, what with the many problems it brings for cars.  Winter usually sees businesses in vehicle repair, such as auto glass repair businesses and car repair shops, getting an abrupt increase in the number of customers for windshield replacement jobs and front-end restoration after a gruesome run-in with the elements.  There are some protective measures you can take, though, especially where your windshield is concerned.  Following the steps described below can help you avoid that costly windshield replacement.

The first step to avoiding windshield replacement is putting your car in a safe place.  Obviously, a garage is the best place for parking your car in winter—or just about any time of year—but if that is not available, you should at least try to park it up your driveway or at a location where it is unlikely to have a run-in with some overzealous wielder of the snow thrower.  The snow thrower is a major culprit when it comes to cracked windshields, so try to put your car out of harm’s way.  The same goes for tall bushes, areas where snow tends to pile up, and trees: make sure your car is not parked in a location where the snow accumulated in these areas might fall on it and crack your windshield due to the sudden weight.

Another option for keeping your car protected is to look for a tarp cover for it.  There are car covers and windshield covers being sold on the market that just make use of easy-to-handle straps.  You can set these over your car’s auto glass and keep the frost from getting to it that way.  There is a caveat, though: if you are expecting serious snowfall, you should probably go with another preventative option.  This is because if enough snow piles up on the cover, it might be another headache to have to deal with, given that its heft shall make it difficult to remove.

Perhaps one of the easiest ways to prevent nasty cracks from snow leading to windshield replacement work is to use frost-preventing solutions.  There are actually quite a number of these on the market now, and some of them even need only be applied about once a month or so for your car’s auto glass to naturally repel (think “easy to slide off” instead of “bouncing off” here) H2O.  The downside to this is that it can get quite costly, as these are not exactly cheap.  Still, if you factor in the fact that the price of a windshield replacement nowadays can go from $300 to $1000 for luxury vehicles, a $15 or $20 bottle of anti-ice formula hardly seems that costly.

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