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  1. Henry Killingsworth says:

    Wow, I found it really cool when you explained that you can keep window glass from shattering in accidents by installing tint onto it. My wife and I are wanting to purchase a new car soon, and we want to keep the sun from damaging the seats inside as well. It seems like getting a window tint installed onto our vehicle would be a very worthwhile investment.

  2. Taylor Hansen says:

    It’s interesting to learn that high-quality car tinting can avoid any bubbles from appearing on the glass. I just got a new Hyundai Sonata last week and I really want to have the windows tinted since I don’t want my car to get hot since summer is coming up. I’ll have to find a place that provides a high-quality tint so I don’t have to worry about it fading or bubbling up.

  3. Michelle Catapang says:

    This is a great post. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about Car Window Tinting.

  4. Window Tinter says:

    The “safety” enhancement against broken windows from applying tinted film is minimal at best, and primarily just marketing. If there was a substantial benefit and it provided serious protection in an accident, cars would be sold new with a transparent adhesive film on the windows regardless of tinting.

    Furthermore, if you buy a new car with tinted windows, as you and your wife were planning, they’ll almost certainly break in the same fashion as regular windows. That’s because it’s the glass itself that is tinted in the manufacturing process. Only when an adhesive film is applied to the window will the way it shatters be changed, as is done by very nearly all aftermarket tinting services (unless you’re actually buying new OEM windows with the glass already tinted, like factory tinted windows).

    Car window glass is tempered such that, when it breaks, it shatters into small shards without significantly sharp edges. In fact, when car windows break, sometimes they remain in one piece. That piece is shattered, but all the tiny pieces aren’t separated from each other. When they do break apart, they won’t necessarily break into all the tiny pieces either; often there will be many large chunks where the tiny pieces are still stuck together. I kept such a piece from when my car was broken into, decades ago, and it is still connected in one piece about 3″ × 5″ with the spiderwebbing zigging & zapping around all the tiny “shards” that compose the large piece. This provides the real safety from broken windows in an accident, and is why no dealers offer transparent “safety” film as an upgrade. If the film made any real difference, you know they would — they already try to sell you on various upgrades of dubious benefits as it is, they wouldn’t skip this if they could convince buyers it was worth it.

    Manufacturers would also likely stop making cars with tinted glass, or at least reduce the number they make. Why have cars on the lot that can only be sold to people who want (or don’t want) tinted windows, when you can apply the film at the time of sale with the specific amount of tint desired, making all cars in the lot available to all buyers. You would already be applying a transparent film to the windows for safety if the buyer doesn’t want tint. This isn’t how things are done because applying an adhesive film to the inside of your windows does *NOT* provide any appreciable safety enhancement.

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