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All About Auto Tinting


All About Auto Tinting

Michael Tveter
May 31, 2013


Most car owners know that auto tinting makes their cars look a whole lot cooler than stock, but there are actually more benefits of this stylish after-market addition that most people are not even aware of. In this article, a couple of these benefits will get enumerated, and hopefully they will entice you to try it out for yourself.

Window auto tinting Makes Your Car Windows Stronger

Auto tinting will not really make the glass itself stronger, but it will help prevent it from shattering into a million pieces during a collision. Auto tints are attached to car windows with the help of an adhesive, so in essence, if the glass gets broken, the tinting film will keep it together.

auto tinting prevents skin cancer. Whenever you go out walking under the sun, you will surely not forget to apply sunscreen on your skin; but will you ever think about skin protection when you are driving? Most likely not. If you are driving a car completely without window or wind-shield tinting, the UV rays from the sun can freely pass through and damage your skin, and this is what causes skin cancer. If you use a good quality car window tinting, not only will most of the light coming from the sun gets blocked out, the harmful UV rays are also kept from getting inside your car and causing harm on your skin.

More Benefits of Auto Tinting

Auto tinting can improve your gas mileage. The best window tinting not only prevents most of the light from the sun from getting inside the car, it also prevents the heat from getting inside as well. And, when the cabin of your car does not heat up so easily even in a hot summer day, then the air conditioning unit does not have to work too hard to keep the driver and passengers comfortably cool, making your car more fuel efficient than before.

auto tinting helps protect your car's upholstery. The UV rays from the sun not only damages your skin, it can also wreak havoc on your car's upholstery, especially if it is made of leather. You do not have to apply leather and plastic conditioner on your car's interior if you install aftermarket auto tinting; now you do not have to worry too much about your leather seats fading, or your dashboard cracking because of the heat.

These are just some of the surprising benefits about auto tinting that most people do not even know about. If you want to know more, then you should go to the nearest automotive aftermarket parts store and ask them about the different high end choices that they have in store and the different benefits that they have.


The author, a Northern California native, is a lifelong entrepreneur and marketing professional with a passion for empowering the growth within individuals and their businesses. He has a deep passion for open honest healthy relationships of integrity, love and compassion. Check out his window tinting business and his Facebook group




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