Windscreen Replacement in Caloundra
In the town itself, 48.1% of dwellings are flats and 52.8% run one car; across the district, 43,452 dwellings average 1.8
Windscreen replacement for Caloundra and the district around it, from Pelican Waters to Buddina, assessed before anything is booked and fitted in laminated glass on site or at the Kunda Park workshop
A Vision Windscreens replaces windscreens for Caloundra and the district around it from one workshop at Unit 2/106 Enterprise St, Kunda Park, and through a mobile service that comes to where the car is standing. Caloundra is two places at once. The locality itself is a small, settled beachside town: 3,932 people in 2,661 private dwellings at the 2021 Census, a median age of 58, 48.1% flats or apartments, 52.8% of dwellings running exactly one car and 1.4 motor vehicles per dwelling on average. The district the Bureau of Statistics also calls Caloundra, from Golden Beach and Pelican Waters in the south to Buddina and Minyama in the north, counted 96,305 people in 43,452 dwellings averaging 1.8 vehicles. This page serves both, and the difference between them decides where the fitting happens.
Unit 2/106 Enterprise St, Kunda Park QLD 4556
Mon–Fri 7:30am–4:30pm; Sat by appointment; Sun closed
Start with the town. Of Caloundra's 2,661 dwellings, 858 are flats or apartments and 479 are townhouses; 23.6% are separate houses against 74.8% across Queensland. 42.6% are rented and 39.0% owned outright. 52.8% of dwellings run one motor vehicle, 24.6% two and 8.3% three or more, and the median weekly household income is $980 against $1,746 nationally. It is a town where the car is parked under a unit block or on the street more often than in a driveway.
Then the district. The nine ABS areas that make up the Caloundra district — Aroona and Currimundi, Buddina and Minyama, Caloundra and Kings Beach, Golden Beach and Pelican Waters, Moffat Beach and Battery Hill, Parrearra and Warana, Wurtulla and Birtinya, Caloundra West and Baringa, and Meridan Plains and Little Mountain — are 70.2% separate houses, average 1.8 motor vehicles per dwelling, and saw 62.9% of working residents drive themselves to work against 59.5% statewide. South of the town, the Caloundra South Priority Development Area, 2,323.5 hectares between the Bruce Highway and the Bells Creek arterial, is planned for about 20,000 dwellings and 15,000 jobs. A Vision Windscreens has no premises in any of it; the workshop is at Kunda Park, and the business names Caloundra among the areas it serves from there.
Why this work comes up here
There is no A Vision Windscreens premises in Caloundra or anywhere in the district this page covers. The business operates from one workshop at Unit 2/106 Enterprise St, Kunda Park, and reaches Caloundra either by the customer driving in or through the mobile service it offers across the Sunshine Coast. Nothing on this page should be read as indicating a branch, depot or team in Caloundra.
A replacement is decided by the damage, and Queensland's Light Vehicle Inspection Manual is the measure. In the driver's half of the primary vision area, the part of the screen swept by the original manufacturer's wiper blades, a bull's-eye or star fracture more than 16mm in diameter, or a crack more than 150mm long that penetrates more than one layer of a laminated windscreen or interferes with the driver's vision, is a reason for rejection at a safety certificate inspection. Separately, with no measurement attached, so is that area being cracked, scored, chipped, badly sandblasted or otherwise damaged so as to impair the driver's vision. Inside those limits and clear of the driver's view, a chip or crack can often be repaired. Outside them, or where years of wear have taken the clarity out of the driver's view, the answer is a new windscreen.
What goes back in is regulated too. Replacement windscreens and window glass must be an approved type of safety glass bearing an identification mark showing the standard it was manufactured to — AS 2080, BS AU178 and UNECE R43 are the manual's examples — and decals and adhesive labels are not acceptable. A Vision Windscreens sources laminated windscreens, which bond a layer of plastic between two curved sheets of glass, and describes the job in its own words: inspect the damage and confirm a replacement is needed, remove the damaged glass with tools that protect the frame and interior, fit the new windscreen on adhesive, let the adhesive cure before the vehicle is driven, and hand over aftercare advice such as avoiding car washes and rough roads for a short period.
The cure is what makes Caloundra's two halves different jobs. A replacement needs room to work and somewhere the car can stay put afterwards. In the town, where 48.1% of dwellings are flats, that is an allocated bay, a basement or the kerb, and whether the fit can happen there depends on the space and on what the building permits. Across the district, where seven in ten dwellings are separate houses, it is usually a driveway. Say where the car will be standing when you call; that settles whether the mobile service suits or whether the trip to Kunda Park is simpler.
Common local challenges
One car, parked under a unit block
52.8% of Caloundra dwellings run exactly one motor vehicle and 48.1% of them are flats or apartments, so the only car is usually on an allocated bay or the street.
A replacement takes that car out of use for the fit and the cure, and a mobile fit needs space to open both doors, lift the screen out and set the new one, plus permission to work in the car park.
We ask where the car will be standing before anything is booked and say whether the fit can be done there. If not, it comes to Kunda Park once, for the fit, and not twice.
A driveway in the district, and a car that has to be back by the school run
Across the district 70.2% of dwellings are separate houses and 62.9% of workers drive themselves; the car is committed on weekdays.
Once the new screen is in, the car has to stand until the adhesive has cured, which the technician sets for the adhesive used on the day.
A driveway is the easiest place to do this work. We fit where the car already stands and tell you when it can be driven, so the day is planned around the cure rather than surprised by it.
Not knowing whether it is a repair or a replacement
The manual's limits are measurements few drivers carry in their heads, and the client's own guide is that damage larger than a coin, or in the line of sight, usually means a replacement.
Replacing a screen that could have been repaired costs the fit and the cure; repairing one outside the limits leaves a car that will fail its next inspection.
We inspect first and say which. Where the damage is inside the limits and clear of the driver's view, the repair service is the right page; where it is not, this one is.
A screen that has gone hazy in front of the driver
Years of wind-blown grit and road debris abrade the outer face gradually, with no incident that prompts anyone to look.
The manual lists the primary vision area being scored, badly sandblasted or otherwise damaged so as to impair the driver's vision as a reason for rejection, with no measurement attached. Wear of that kind is not repairable; it is a replacement.
We assess the wiped area from the driver's seat, which is how the inspector will, and say plainly whether the wear has crossed the line.
The car is being sold and needs a safety certificate
Queensland requires a safety certificate when a registered light vehicle is sold, and the windscreen is among the inspected items alongside tyres, brakes, steering, suspension, body rust and lights.
A cracked or badly scored screen fails on its own, and a replacement after a failed inspection is the same job at a worse time.
Sort the glass before the inspection is booked. A Vision Windscreens is not an approved inspection station and cannot issue the certificate; it can put the windscreen inside the manual's limits beforehand.
Replacement glass with a label where the mark should be
Glass sourced outside the trade can carry a decal or an adhesive label instead of a mark etched into the glass.
The manual requires the identification mark to be etched or indelibly printed on the glass and states that decals and adhesive labels are not acceptable.
We source laminated windscreens carrying the mark, and you are welcome to look at it before the glass goes in.
What we offer
Windscreen replacement
Removal of the damaged windscreen without harming the frame, a new laminated windscreen bearing the identification mark the manual requires, fitted on adhesive and left to cure before the car is driven.
Request a QuoteIn the town 48.1% of dwellings are flats; across the district 70.2% are separate houses. Where the car stands decides whether the fit happens there or at Kunda Park.
Windscreen repair where replacement is not needed
Resin repair of chips and cracks that sit inside the manual's limits and clear of the driver's view — assessed first, so a repairable screen is not replaced.
Windscreen repairs52.8% of Caloundra dwellings run one car; a repair keeps it off the road for less time than a fit and cure.
Vehicle body glass
Side, rear and quarter glass replacement for cars and vans, with the broken glass cleaned out of the vehicle.
Ask about body glassA car parked on the street in a town of unit blocks is the one whose side glass gets found broken in the morning; say what was broken and where the car is when you call.
About the business
A Vision Windscreens works from a single workshop at Unit 2/106 Enterprise St, Kunda Park, trading Monday to Friday 7:30am to 4:30pm with Saturday by appointment, and lists Caloundra among the areas it serves. It describes its replacement process in its own words: inspect the damage and confirm a replacement is needed, remove the damaged windscreen with tools that protect the vehicle's frame and interior, fit the new glass on adhesive, let the adhesive cure before the vehicle is driven, and hand over aftercare instructions. It sources laminated windscreens and also replaces vehicle body glass. It is not an approved inspection station and cannot issue a safety certificate.
Frequently asked questions
Do you come out to Caloundra, Golden Beach and Pelican Waters?
Yes, through the mobile service the business offers across the Sunshine Coast; Caloundra is on its own list of areas served. There is no workshop in the district — the only one is at Kunda Park — and whether a replacement can be completed on site depends on the space and, in a unit block, on what the building permits. Say where the car will be standing when you call.
How do I know whether it is a repair or a replacement?
By the manual's limits and by where the damage sits. In the driver's half of the wiped area, a bull's-eye or star fracture over 16mm, or a crack over 150mm that penetrates more than one layer or interferes with the driver's vision, is a reason for rejection at inspection, and so is any damage there that impairs the driver's vision. Damage inside those limits and clear of the driver's view can often be repaired; damage outside them is a replacement. We inspect first and say which.
What glass do you fit?
Laminated windscreens, which bond a plastic layer between two sheets of glass, bearing an identification mark for the standard they were made to, etched or indelibly printed on the glass. Queensland's manual gives AS 2080, BS AU178 and UNECE R43 as examples of accepted marks and says decals and adhesive labels are not acceptable. You are welcome to look at the mark before the glass goes in.
Can I drive straight after the windscreen is fitted?
No. The adhesive has to cure before the car is driven, and the technician tells you how long that is for the adhesive used on the day. The business's own aftercare advice is to avoid car washes and rough roads for a short period afterwards.
I am selling the car. Will the windscreen pass the safety certificate inspection?
That is the inspector's call, and only an approved inspection station can issue a safety certificate; A Vision Windscreens is not one. What we can say is what the manual lists as reasons for rejection, and put the glass inside those limits before you book the inspection. Queensland requires a safety certificate when a registered light vehicle is sold, and the windscreen is among the items inspected.
Where we work
A Vision Windscreens
Windscreen Replacement
Unit 2/106 Enterprise St, Kunda Park QLD 4556
Mon–Fri 7:30am–4:30pm; Sat by appointment; Sun closed
Caloundra
Sunshine Coast, QLD
Sunshine Coast
If a Caloundra car has a crack the manual would reject, or a screen that has gone hazy in front of the driver, send a photo of the damage and say where the car is usually parked — unit bay, street or driveway. A Vision Windscreens assesses first, quotes before any work begins, and fits from the Kunda Park workshop or where the car is standing, anywhere from Pelican Waters to Buddina.
Unit 2/106 Enterprise St, Kunda Park QLD 4556