How Far Can you Drive with a Crack in your Windshield?

Driving with a Crack in your Windshield

You walk out to your car one day, get in the driver’s seat, and notice that your windshield has developed a crack, seemingly overnight. If your windshield is now sporting a long crack, spider web, or other ding, you’re probably wondering if you have to get a replacement windshield right now.

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Can Your Windshield Be Saved?

Need to Save Your Windshield?

You are driving on a sunny day in Pittsburgh when a rock kicks up from a street crater, and hits your windshield; is it salvageable? There are differences between a windshield scrape, chip and crack. Depending on the depth of the damage, whether a small scrape, a lengthy crack or a deep chip, your windshield may need to be completely replaced, or simply repaired. Here are a few basic tips from our professionals at Three Rivers Auto Glass.

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Road Trip Safety Tips

Safety Tips for the Road

The season of road trips is upon us, but is your vehicle ready? There are many things that you can do yourself to prepare your vehicle for traveling. Yet there may also be some maintenance requirements that only professionals can fix, such as our windshield repair and replacement services. At Three Rivers Auto Glass we want to make sure that every vehicle is ready and prepared for a road trip filled with both fun and safety throughout the entire journey.

-Maintenance & Prepare Your Vehicle In Advance

Providing your vehicle with general maintenance before your road trip is simple yet imperative for preparing it for a lengthy journey on the road. From filling the gas tank, getting an oil change and topping off other fluids, to checking tire pressure and giving your vehicle a good post-trip cleaning, general maintenance is the best way to up-keep your vehicle and make it road trip ready. Although general maintenance helps to prevent major issues, also check the mechanical functioning of your vehicle, from bumper to fender. Doing these things one or two weeks before your road trip is best, to enable room for major fixes if necessary.

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Spring Cleaning for Your Vehicle

Have You Cleaned Your Vehicle?

Spring is here and so is the dirt from last season. Salt, debris and other winter weather remnants collect over the colder months and will make your vehicle filthy. With this in mind, here are a few spring cleaning tips for your car, from us at Three River’s Auto Glass.

Exterior Washing

Washing your vehicle is the best simple way to cleanse its exterior. Most drivers think to wash their cars’ exterior where they can see; however, there are other exterior spaces that need cleaned which are difficult to spot—like a vehicle’s undercarriage. Winter road salt and other street debris can do great harm beneath your vehicle, if left unattended to. Salt, for instance, will assist in rusting your vehicle’s undercarriage. This is why it is important to properly wash beneath your vehicle, as well as wash the sides, hood, roof, trunk, et cetera…

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Things to Know About Your Windshield

What Do You Know About Your Windshield?

Your vehicle’s windshield is a standard part of the entire motor machine. A windshield is actually so standard that you may forget about how important your vehicle’s windshield really is. Three Rivers Auto Glass is here to remind you of some good things to know about your vehicle’s windshield, and how to do what when it needs repaired.

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Are You Dealing with a Cracked Windshield?

What to do when your Windshield Cracks?

Dealing with a damaged windshield can be frustrating and dangerous. One day a petite road rock hits your windshield and causes a starburst-like crack. The next day a speed bump turns that crack into a long fissure running along your entire windshield. A damaged windshield can make it difficult to see the road through it, making for not-so-safe driving conditions. And since windshields are literally glass shields which protect the vehicle’s driver and passengers from a multitude of road-side elements, a defected windshield leaves for defective protection. Even so, yielding cracked windshield repair does not have to be a difficult process.

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