Commercial vehicle glass across Sydney

We come to the vehicle. That is the point of a mobile service, and it matters more on a work vehicle than on a car. The alternative is a driver spending half a day delivering and collecting it. What we need is somewhere dry and sheltered enough for the adhesive to bond properly, and room to work around the front of the vehicle. There is no callout fee anywhere we work. Tell us about site access when you book.

A straight windscreen replacement is about two and a half hours on site. It is around three hours where the vehicle carries a camera behind the glass and needs recalibrating. You can drive and load it as soon as we finish. We stay with it through the adhesive cure rather than handing it back and asking you to wait. A chip repair is about half an hour. Planning the job around a period the vehicle is standing anyway is what keeps the real downtime close to zero.

It can, and which limits apply depends on the weight of the vehicle. Over 4.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass, the National Heavy Vehicle Inspection Manual sets specific limits for the wiped area in front of the driver. The limit is a 16mm bullseye or star fracture, measured across the break. A hairline crack over 30mm, or an edge crack over 75mm, is grounds for rejection too. Under 4.5 tonnes it is the NSW light vehicle standards that apply instead. Those permit only two of three defined damage types in the area in front of the driver. Trucks are inspected at the roadside considerably more often than private cars, so damage ignored for months tends to get found.

Not automatically, and this is worth being clear about before you choose. A resin repair restores the strength of the glass and stops the damage spreading, which is genuinely valuable, but it leaves a visible mark. The limits above describe damage in the driver's vision area, and a repair does not erase it. On a truck that has to pass an inspection, replacement is the safer answer. We will tell you which situation you are in rather than quietly taking the smaller job.

Many now do, and it is the requirement most often overlooked on a work vehicle. Driver assistance systems reading through a camera behind the windscreen are standard on a lot of current commercial vans. Replacing the glass means that camera has to be recalibrated, exactly as it would on a passenger car. On a work vehicle the thing to establish before the day is whether the recalibration can be done at your yard at all. Some of it needs conditions a yard cannot provide, and we would rather tell you that than find it out on site.

Yes. What decides it is how many there are, what they are, and where they are parked. Each vehicle needs its own glass on the service vehicle and its own working time on site. Tell us the count and the models when you book and we will plan the visit around it. We offer business accounts and invoicing rather than payment on the day for each vehicle.

Usually one to three days, and the deciding factor is the glass rather than the queue. Where we hold the glass for a common vehicle we can often attend the next business day. Where the glass has to be ordered in, allow up to three days. That is more likely on commercial body builds, because the glass varies so much between variants. Send the build details when you book and we will tell you which of the two you are looking at.

Monday to Saturday, 7am to 5pm. We do not attend outside those hours, which matters for a vehicle that only stands still overnight. A job like that needs planning around a working day rather than fitting into the gap.