Supply Chain Issues: Glass Shortage Only Adds To Frustrations For Car Break-Ins Victims – WCCO

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX-TV) — Present chain factors are plaguing prospects and enterprise householders alike as the holiday season begins. Now you probably can add glass to the prolonged file of provides bitten by the shortages and delays impacting the financial system.

Yen Phan, a San Francisco meals blogger, found her car windshield violently smashed whereas she was parked on Mission Avenue near twenty second Avenue — a busy, carefully trafficked part of metropolis. “I believed it was fowl poop or some type of stain, nonetheless no, it regarded desire it was smashed with a baseball bat, and there have been about 4 marks, after which the roof was moreover dented,” acknowledged Phan.

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After calling about half a dozen glass restore retailers, she found all of them confronted a glass shortage. “Common glass restore is about $200 to $300,” acknowledged Phan. “After which as soon as I talked to the person I was like, ‘Why is it $900, does it truly value that quite a bit?’ and, ‘Can you not get it completed any sooner?’ And he was like ‘No.’”

The proprietor of a mannequin new Audi RS7 moreover ran into the equivalent issues, after burglars broke into her automobile on Hawthorne Avenue near Howard Avenue in San Francisco’s South Of Market neighborhood in September.

“We went to possibly seven auto glass retailers throughout the Bay House,” acknowledged Trisha Bantigue. “All of them had been backlogged, and notably you acknowledge add throughout the manufacturing delays from all over the place on this planet, it took me better than 4 weeks to change that car window.”

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And it value $2,000.

“We now haven’t seen a glass shortage like this,” acknowledged Co-Proprietor of MAZ Auto Glass Kevin Sarat-Guzman. “We’ve seen low present, nonetheless not until the aspect the place even after we order through the provider they don’t have any projected timeline, so we might probably be prepared weeks to months.”

MAZ Auto Glass located on Bayshore Boulevard San Francisco acknowledged it used to have the flexibility to change glass in a number of days. Nonetheless since a variety of the glass is imported, pandemic supply-chain factors are inflicting large delays.

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MAZ acknowledged it’s seeing shortages in all sorts of glass for earlier and newer cars. Newer car replacements are further sophisticated on account of they normally have further choices and need recalibration.