{"id":5416,"date":"2013-10-28T17:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2013-10-28T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:50:18","slug":"autoglass-vanbrella-cuts-cancellations-as-wet-weather-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5416","title":{"rendered":"Autoglass ‘Vanbrella’ Cuts Cancellations As Wet Weather Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Autoglass Vanbrella allows chip repair and windscreen replacement jobs to be performed outdoors in wet conditions.<\/p><\/div>\n

Autumn is here, and while the temperatures have remained unseasonably mild, there’s been a marked increase in the quantity of wet stuff falling out of the sky.<\/p>\n

Heavy rain, of course, is the enemy of the mobile windscreen fitter, who cannot fix chips or replace windscreens if its pouring and your car or van isn’t under cover — unlikely, when fittings are often done at the roadside or in workplace car parks, for example.<\/p>\n

Autoglass<\/a> has managed to reduce this problem with an impressive-looking piece of kit known as the ‘Vanbrella’, which is something like a standard roll-out awning on steroids, as you can see from the picture on the right!<\/p>\n

According to Autoglass, it rains for approximately 145 days of the year in the UK, so the company’s mobile repair team — who perform 90% of the work done by the firm — often cannot rely on the skies staying dry for the 30-60 minutes they need to complete a chip repair or to allow a replacement windscreen to bond successfully.<\/p>\n

Having used Autoglass’ mobile service when my van’s windscreen needed replacing after a 60mph incident with a pheasant, I know that the service is fast and efficient, but the technicians do still need a guaranteed ‘dry’ period for a job to be performed successfully. I’d imagine the usefulness of the Vanbrella is limited in windy conditions, but other than that it seems a seriously good piece of kit.<\/p>\n

The Vanbrella was designed and patented by the in-house technical research department at Autoglass, and will be fitted to 400 vans by the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Autoglass Vanbrella is a patented in-house design that enables Autoglass technicians to complete outdoor repair jobs without the risk of rain stopping play, here in the rain-sodden UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1752,13,1793],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}