Your Windshield, Your Safety

The windshield of your new, used, or certified Toyota St. Louis car is an integral part of your safety, whether you’re driving or riding in the car. It works to keep the environmental elements out as well as keeping in the comfortable temperature controlled air. It will require maintenance over time and may even need a repair every now and again. In fact, if your windshield gets chipped by a rock or other material it is important to have it fixed as soon as possible. There are at home windshield repair kits. However, the most effective way is to have it serviced at the Toyota dealership in which you bought the car. Putting off repairing a chipped windshield may cause the small chip to begin to spread with each bump in the road. Overtime these small chips can turn into a crack reaching from one end of the windshield to another. At this point you would need to have then entire windshield replaced. This is far more costly to do than to simply fix the chip when it happens.

When you replace a windshield, especially if it is done incorrectly, you can easily compromise the integrity of the safety of the car. In more modern cars the windshield is a part of the safety restraint system or the SRS. This system incorporates the windshield, air bags, and seat belts. If the windshield becomes damaged or is incorrectly repaired it could compromise this system. It could go so far as to prevent the passenger side airbag from deploying in the incidence of a vehicle collision. Take good care of your certified Toyota’s windshield. Let it be serviced at the Toyota dealer service department for every repair.