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Protect windshields for personal safety | : vie 3H

A CAR'S windshield is often film that can be applied to win- It also eliminates ultra-violet
overlooked when assessing safety dows to tint and strengthen the ray penetration, and  jengthens
features on a car, glass. the life of the car’s upholstery.

‘By Kevin Gillies
Contributing Writer

Often looked at as something
that keeps rain off the driver, it is
rarely seen as responsible for
keeping passengers in the vehicle
should a collision occur.

Cracks seriously reduce a wind-
shield’s ability to perform this
function safely.

According to Adam Dropkin of
Super Glass and Car Care in
North Vancouver, ‘The wind-
shield is put in the car to keep
things from hitting you in the face
and to keep you in the car in case
you have a front-end collision and
you go flying forward.’’ ~

“The chances are you will go
through the windshield a_ little
quicker if there is a defect in the
windshield.’’

Although there is nothing a car
owner can do to protect the wind-
shield, a glass shop can fix
‘shells’? or small holes in the
glass by pumping resin into them.

Dropkin says shells don’t gen-
erally run, but if there is any un-
due pressure on that area of the
windshield, it could become a
small crack, which in turn could
run the length of the windshield.

“As soon as there’s a defect in
your windshield, such as a bulfct
chip or a crack or something, it
has compromised the strength of
that windshield,” he says.

Filling a shell with resin is only
a temporary measure that saves
ICBC from having to buy a whole
new windshield.

It will also save the driver from
having to pay his or her deducti-

. ble at that point.
Dropkin says that the. resin-fill-
. ed shell will be less of a strong
point than a new windshield, but
stronger than a neglected shell.

“It’s like a crack in a dam,’’ he
says. ‘‘The dam is still strong, but
any undue stress put on that point
will blow the dam at that point.”

One chip is not going to make |
that big'a difference as long as it’s
filled.

But if it is in the driver’s line of
vision, or there are two or three,
then Dropkin suggests the wind-
shield be replaced,

Cracks in- the glass warrant
replacing it immediately, he says.

If you’ve been considering tin-
ting your windows, remember that
it is illegal to tint your windshield.

However, it is legal to tint your
back window, any rear door win-
dows, and a band along the top of
the windshield.

Moecz Manji of Master Tune-
Up, also in North Vancouver,
suggests Insufilm for after-factory
window tinting.

Insufilm is an extremely strong

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