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There’s no real question as to whether or not you should protect yourself from the sun with tint. For all the good it does to provide warmth and vitamin D, it also causes some severe biological reactions. If you spend an average amount of time driving, you’re at the mercy of the sun’s harmful UV rays. So protecting yourself by layering your windows and windshield with a film is an absolute yes while driving in Salt Lake City or Provo.

Tinting Your Windshield

Because your windows are the way you see most of what’s going on around you when driving, it’s essential that any window treatment doesn’t interfere with your ability to see obstacles, signs, and other vehicles—especially at night.

As a result, many states have specific rules for window tinting:

  • How a window may be darkened
  • How dark the tint may be
  • If it’s legal at all
Legality Of Tinting Differs By State

The AAA has a great reference guide that summarizes all of the state rules. You can find that here. In Utah, it is very well clear what the law is.

To Tint Or Not To Tint, that is the question

Once you’ve determined whether your state allows windshield darkening, and exactly how much film may be applied where the question is simple: should you? The answer is a definite yes.

In fact, any amount of windshield and window film will provide at least some benefit in protecting your car from the following:

  • Heat
  • Excessive brightness
  • Interior wear caused by the sun’s harsh rays

However, there may be an even better solution for you: a new breed of clear, heat-blocking windshield films.

Transparent, Heat-Blocking Auto Films

While clear, heat-blocking films for automotive window and windshield applications have been around for about a decade now, they aren’t as well-known as their darker, visible counterparts.

Working in much the same way as a window film, a heat-blocking transparent film is basically a sheet of special plastic that adheres to your windows or windshield, filtering out the heat and UV radiation while allowing as much as 90 percent of visible light into the car.

You might think to let in all that light wouldn’t have much effect on the heat in a car, but 3M’s Crystalline Window Films, for example, block 99.9 percent of all UV radiation (equivalent to SPF 1700+), and 90 percent of infrared (heat) radiation even while allowing up to 86 percent of visible light to be transmitted.

Because this newer type of nearly transparent coating blocks so much of the harmful effects of the sun while allowing much greater visibility, even those who don’t like tinted windows can get the benefits—and, in some states, those benefits can extend all the way to the windshield, completing your car’s defense against the sun.

It’s Definitely A Good Idea

Should you tint your car’s windows and windshield? The answer is a definite yes. The only question you have to answer is how you want to do it within the bounds of your state’s laws. While getting pulled over is not fun, many police officers will give you a simple “fix-it” ticket.

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