How Window Tinting Can Help Protect Your Cars Windows
Did you know that window tinting does not just make your car look great, it actually protects your windows as well? Here's everything you need to know.
Atlanta is home to some extraordinary cars and car-related events and has been deemed a car lover's town. If you live in or near Atlanta and take pride in your ride, it's time to step up the game with window tinting.
Window tinting isn't just about looks. Window tint also provides added protection for you, your interior, and your windows, themselves.
Ready to learn more about how auto window tinting can improve your driving experience and protect your car's windows?
Read on for our complete guide to the benefits of tinting your car's windows with the help of a window tinting service.
How Window Tinting Protects Your Windows
First, let's talk about how window tinting protects your windows. Window tint film is a thin layer made of polyester combined with either ceramic, carbon, metallic, or dyed materials. By applying it directly to your car windows and curing it, auto window tint film can add some extra reinforcement and a protective layer to your car windows.
Increased Hail Protection
Hail storms strike without warning, and oftentimes you don't have time to get your car into a covered garage before they hit. Hail and even stones that are kicked up on the highway can cause small cracks and dings in your windshield that can spread over time. Certain types of window tint film can absorb the shock of hail stones or stones, and while you may have to replace damaged window tint film, it will cost a lot less than repairing or replacing your windshield.
Increased Shatter Resistance
Car accidents are terrifying for a lot of reasons and can leave drivers and passengers with serious injuries. Oftentimes, even minor injuries can lead to cuts and lacerations if the impact of the accident causes one or more windows to shatter into the vehicle. Certain types of reinforced window tint film can increase the shatter resistance of your windows and hold together the shards of a shattered window so that they don't cause harm.
How Window Tinting Protects Your Car's Interior
By tinting your windows with window tint film, you can protect your car's interior, as well. Let's take a look at how window tinting will make a difference to your car's interior.
Protection from Fading and Cracking
The sun's UV rays can do a number on your car's interior, from leather seats and steering wheel covers to plastic dashboards. Over time, UV rays will "age" your car's interior, causing these materials to fade, crack, or warp. Window tinting can block up to 99% of UV rays, protecting your car's interior and protecting the value of your car over time.
Improved Temperature Control
Blocking out UV rays comes with a number of benefits, and that includes improving your car's temperature control. We've all experienced the phenomenon of climbing into the car on a hot summer's day only to have to blast the AC to prevent overheating. By blocking out most of the sun's UV rays, window tinting will keep your car from heating up in the sun, which means that you won't have to crank the AC to stay cool--which is great for your car's energy efficiency, too!
How Window Tinting Protects You
Finally, window tinting also improves your driving experience, as well as the experience of your passengers. Let's take a look at how window tinting can increase the protection of everyone in your car.
Protection from UV Rays and Glare
While most of us love the feeling of the sun on our skin, it's important to monitor how much sun we're getting. Too much exposure to UV rays can cause premature aging, increase the risk of skin cancer, and more. Most people overlook how much sun exposure their face, arms, and hands get while driving, and with window tint, you won't have to worry about it anymore.
UV-blocking window tint is also great for your eyes. It cuts down on glare, reducing eye strain and making it easier to see the road when it's dark, raining, or foggy.
Increased Privacy
When you're driving your car, you don't want to feel like other people are staring you down. A lack of privacy can be distracting to drivers and in some cases, dangerous. Window tinting doesn't make you invisible, but it does make it harder for other drivers or passersby to see into your car.
Finding the Right Window Tinting Services
If you've decided that you want to tint your windows, the next step is finding the right tinting service. The key is to find a company with years of experience, great reviews, and high-quality window tint film. If you can find a window tinting service that offers additional services you're interested in, like residential window tinting, you're in even better shape.
What if you have multiple cars that you want to have serviced but don't have the time to take them all to the shop? Great window tinting services have a solution. Find a window tinting company that offers mobile window tinting so that you can have your car windows tinted from the comfort of your home.
Let Metropolitan Tinting Enhance Your Ride
Auto window tinting is a great way to improve your car in a car lover's city. Whether you live in Atlanta, Alpharetta, Fulton County, or anywhere else in the Atlanta metropolitan area, Metropolitan Tinting is here to help. Ride in style and comfort and protect your car's windows with LLumar window tint film.
Do you have more questions about window tint film? Do you want to know how much it will cost to upgrade your car, home, or office with window tinting? Contact us to request your free estimate and schedule your appointment today.
