You’re not the only driver who has cast a long, envious stare at a car with tinted windows that pulls up next to yours at a traffic light.
At once mysterious and edgy, tinted windows exude hipness and elegance, particularly on sporty vehicles.
However, it would be a huge mistake to judge tinted windows on their looks alone. In addition to their aesthetic advantages, tinted windows teem with health and safety benefits. If you’re scouting Las Vegas for places to get your windows tinted, consider:
- Tinted windows enhance a driver’s sense of security. Multiply this benefit times two – for the times you’re driving (to deter car hijackers) and for when your vehicle is parked (to deter car thieves). Naturally, you should always lock your vehicle, but tinted windows convey the warning that thieves should “back off.”
- Tinted windows can prevent your windows from shattering upon impact, thereby sparing you injuries from broken glass. If you’re looking for places to get your windows tinted in Las Vegas, you may not know that sheets of window film are installed on your vehicle to create the tint. While the film is not impenetrable, it can help solidify a window during a collision or if a stone is launched like a missile in your direction.
- Tinted windows can improve driver competence. Driving into the Las Vegas sun – or rather, trying to drive in the Las Vegas sun – is more than a nuisance. It can cause even the most skilled driver to make a wrong move that can cause an accident. As much as tinted windows blunt sunlight, they also can reduce headlight glare at night. On rainy nights in particular, tinted windows could be a lifesaver.
- Tinted windows block the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays, producing myriad health benefits. One of them is blunting skin cancer. In fact, more than half of all skin cancers, or 53 percent, occur on the left side of the body, which the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology attributes to driving. In this way, tinted windows can act as a proactive sunscreen.
- Tinted windows reduce the heat that builds up in a vehicle while it’s parked out in the sun. This type of heat is known as solar heat, and you know better than anyone how long it takes for your air conditioner – even blasted on “high” – to counteract its influence. Tinted windows can reduce solar heat from between 35 and 65 percent.
- Tinted windows blunt the “fade factor” that the sun wreaks on vehicle upholstery. If your interior is leather, tinted windows will reduce cracking and warping; if you have fabric, you will notice far less discoloration over time.
At this juncture, you may be interested in more than compiling a list of places to get your windows tinted; you may want the very best place in Las Vegas to do the job. Make an appointment at any dealership at Valley Automall and reap all the benefits of window tint, too.