Pilkingtomn and all glass you can buy in the U.S. is all Made in Chinese junk glass.

No longer can you get:
Sekurit-Saint Gobain - Stock on my Made in Sweden 1991 Volvo 240.
Trempex
Sunex

... and the whole host of quality auto glass made in Europa you may find in RWD Volvos.

I have a Pilkington on my 1992 240 GL sedan. The glass is thin, soft, and not optically as good as what you could get with Europa auto glass.

The Pilkington glass has a plast

If you have a factory windshield, it is retained to the car body using butyl rubber tape gasket material.

The U.S. auto glass industry is crap.

They all use urethane adhesives. That means all legacy butyl rubber must be wholly removed from the windshield pan pinch weld. They use urethane adhesives as they are cheap and requires little skill to use.

You'll be told: "We use urethane to secure the windshield to the car to improve on passenger cabin strength."

What are you driving? Some piece of crap American or Asian automobile? Some sort of Ford Explorer that when it rolls over on the roof, the roof pillars can't support the vehicle weight, so the roof collapses, and kills the occupants. Search the i-net. It's true.

A Windshield, in the days of 240 manufacturing, floats in the pinch weld. When you have an accident that deforms the passenger cabin and roof pillars, the windshield breaks outward.

The windshield does not and should not be used to ass strength to the auto passenger compartment roof line.

If you install it yourself, you'll want a complete set of Volvo 240 factory trim you have now, or collected from a junkyard.

The Pilkington plastic trim, to which the surrounding reveal secures, is to narrow to bridge the span between windshield edge and the sheet metal around like the A-pillars and roof line.

I'd not know if you can secure a factory Volvo 240 windshield trim set to an after market Pilkington or other windshield. You may be able to. Or, the windshield installation tech can fabricate a reveal themselves using a synthetic rubber T-trim strip. (Profile is T-shaped when looking at it in cross-section.) The windshield adhesive is used to anchor the T-strip to the urethane adhesive sealant gasket.

Questions?

Hope that helps.

Mac Bastard.
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