With more than 130 million cars on the road in America today, there is a tremendous opportunity for you to start your own Windshield Repair Business. Windshield replacement or repair is the number one insurance claim for cars in the United States. Vehicle windshields are being damaged all the time by stones and other debris on the road, and you can help vehicle owners avoid costly repairs by starting your own Windshield Repair Business. Plus you can start a windshield repair business for less than $500.00, and run it from your own home.
Most vehicle windshields are replaced because they have a large crack in them that began as a small chip. If you have the right windshield repair equipment, you could make some serious cash by repairing nicks and chips in vehicle windshields before they become unrepairable problems. The ideal windshield repair business would provide a mobile windshield repair service. This means that you or your employees would perform the repairs at the vehicle’s location. In order to start your mobile windshield repair business, you’ll need the following things:
- A Business Entity
- A Company Vehicle
- Windshield Repair Equipment
- Legal Forms
- A Business Plan
- Advertising Material
If you were starting this business as a side job to make extra cash, making the business a Sole Proprietorship should be just fine. If you decide to open a large scale windshield repair business and want to protect yourself legally, then you should incorporate the business or make it an limited liability company (LLC). Your company vehicle could be any car, truck or van because the windshield repair equipment isn’t that bulky.
It is wise to buy the windshield repair equipment you need in a kit. A simple search on Google for Windshield Repair Kits will bring up thousands of stores that sell windshield repair kits. By buying the repair kit you would be saving a lot of money compared to buying each item in the kit individually. In a windshield repair kit you’ll find: Liquid Resin, A Vacuum Pump, A UV Light, Paper Towels, and other tools to help you get the job done. Basically to repair a windshield, you use the liquid resin to fill the chip or crack, and then use the vacuum pump to distribute the resin through the cracks. Then you use the UV light to harden the resin. The Ideal windshield repair kit should contain instructional videos or manuals. You could also look into windshield repair franchises that would supply you with everything you need such as the equipment, training, marketing, etc.
Marketing your windshield repair business would be very easy. You could make fliers and put them on the windshields of parked cars at the mall or grocery store. You could also have magnetic signs made that you can put on your car. The best advertising for your windshield repair business would be word-of-mouth.
