Original OEM Glass
We use OEM glass when replacing your windshield so you receive the best quality possible. OEM glass is as good or better then the original glass that was in your vehicle to begin with. You pay a lot for car insurance so why not make sure you receive the best possible glass.
Did you know that your car's windshield acts as a major component of a highly engineered crash management system?
How does this impact me, you may ask yourself? Well, without correct installation of OEM auto glass windshields and adhesives, it could be a very serious or even fatal impact. OEM, or Original Equipment Manufacturer parts, means your vehicle's windshield or other auto glass is produced from original equipment-style tooling and meets the manufacturer specifications for safety and quality to protect you in case of an accident.
Your windshield can contribute as much as 60 percent to the support of the roof during roof crush and rollover accidents! In front end collisions, the windshield is the backboard for the passenger side airbag. The windshield actually absorbs the force of the airbag upon deployment of speeds up to 200 miles per hour. Thus, the use of OEM auto glass parts is essential.
What is the difference between dealer/factory glass, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers), and aftermarket glass?
Many OEM auto glass manufacturers produce the glass for the automobile makers. Therefore, an OEM auto glass manufacturer such as LOF/Pilkington, PPG, Mopar, Carlite, and Guardian may hold the original windshield template for the automobile producer. This means that the template used for manufacturing the windshield are too the exact "original" specifications. The OEM auto glass manufacturer produces these windshields for the auto producer with the dealer insignia (GMC, Nissan, Ford, Toyota, Chevy, Dodge) in the bottom corner and send them back to the car dealer for resale. These auto glass OEM manufacturers will also use the "same original" template to resale to the public with their "own" insignia (Pilkington, PPG, Guardian, Mopar, Carlite). Most OEM auto glass manufacturers cannot resale the windshield back to the public with the dealer insignia. Therefore, the windshield is the "same" original template manufactured part with a different insignia.
Now an aftermarket piece of glass is a windshield that is manufactured to the exact manufacturer guidelines (same color, thickness) without the "original" factory template. The template specifications are recreated using a factory windshield through the means of reverse engineering. This means that the template is recreated by the measurements of the windshield and not by the original template that the dealer manufactured supplied. This method is cheaper and not always accurate. Aftermarket generic windshields sometimes do not fit right and can leak or have bad distortions in the glass.
The following are just some of the OEM auto glass manufacturers that we work with:
* Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG)
* Pilkington
* Carlite
* Safeguard/Mopar
* Asahi
* AP Tech
* Triplex
* Sekurit
* Sicursiv
* Scanex
* Crinamex
* Guardian
Please contact us at 512-692-7672.
