AM Eagle Windshield repair recommendations

[CountryB]

Originally Posted by amosnandy

The only part of your question I can answer is from years in the body shop. A windshield mounted in rubber should never be glued in place.

I'm at RV Glass Solutions now (in Lakeland FL) as I write this, having my windshield replaced. This is the second time my windshield cracked. First time it was replaced by Safelite Glass at my home. This time I decided to take the Coach to RV Glass Solutions.

The installer came out to the waiting area and told me the last time the windshield was installed (not by RV Glass) the installer used some kind of lubricant between glass and rubber and did not glue the glass to the rubber.

He said the rubber gasket should be urethaned to the body, and the glass should be glued to the rubber too. I always though the glass as supposed to "float" in the rubber to allow for movement as the chassis flexes, but he said the glass is a structural part of the body and needs to be glued, both glass to rubber and rubber to body. The rubber is the part that allows for some flexing, not the glass moving around in the rubber gasket.

Also he said the urethane they use for rubber to body and glass to rubber is two different types.

[mackwrench]

Originally Posted by CountryB

I'm at RV Glass Solutions now (in Lakeland FL) as I write this, having my windshield replaced. This is the second time my windshield cracked. First time it was replaced by Safelite Glass at my home. This time I decided to take the Coach to RV Glass Solutions.



The installer came out to the waiting area and told me the last time the windshield was installed (not by RV Glass) the installer used some kind of lubricant between glass and rubber and did not glue the glass to the rubber.



He said the rubber gasket should be urethaned to the body, and the glass should be glued to the rubber too. I always though the glass as supposed to "float" in the rubber to allow for movement as the chassis flexes, but he said the glass is a structural part of the body and needs to be glued, both glass to rubber and rubber to body. The rubber is the part that allows for some flexing, not the glass moving around in the rubber gasket.



Also he said the urethane they use for rubber to body and glass to rubber is two different types.

I've heard good things about that place. I thought the glass guys that were at Lazy Days left and opened it up..

[CountryB]

Originally Posted by mackwrench

I've heard good things about that place. I thought the glass guys that were at Lazy Days left and opened it up..

I don't know the history on RV Coach Glass but the guy I was working with (Richard) said he came from Lazy Days (Tampa). He was in charge of the glass replacement shop there and said Lazy Days stop doing glass work. They sub it all out now.
Apparently RV Coach Glass is a main distributor of windshields. They have a bunch of truck loading docks and a big warehouse connected to the shop I was at. Their company headquarters is in Colburn OR (the old Monaco facility) he said.