Money Spent Right ! 4 things you need to know about tinted films.

Money Spent Right ! 4 things you need to know about tinted films.

For most people, after buying a new phone, they will proceed to buy screen protectors, and protective phone casing. There is no exception for new car owners, they proceed install tinted films after receiving their new car. But, are you choosing the right tinted films for your car ? Even more so, do you know some tinted films are fake ? made out of colored plastic sheets ?  Which are very different from proper heat and impact resistant tinted films.

How to differentiate high-quality heat & impact resistant tinted films. 

1. Cost efficient. If you choose the right tinted film, you can actually save on fuel and air conditioner (a/c) maintenance fees, because your a/c compressor do not work as hard to maintain cold air in a hot day. During a hot sunny day, the temperature difference from using a high-quality tinted film is about 4.2°C (degrees Celsius) , compared to using a poor-quality tinted film, this 4.2°C may seem insignificant, but from what experts say, a 5°C difference between the outside temperature and inside temperature may affect your body differently, or may even harm your body from overheating. Beside, a 5°C difference in temperature can actually be felt, so 4.2°C difference in temperature is actually significant.
2. Maintaining in-car privacy. Most high-quality impact resistant tinted films has a one-way mirror effect to it, to keep prying eyes at bay. Poor-quality tinted films usually will not last more then a year, then air bubbles and blisters will start to form, this also make them difficult to remove and will cause problems while installing new tinted films. Not to mention a melting, bubbling tinted film will make your car look bad. But the worse of all, is when these poor-quality tinted films are expose to long periods of strong sunlight, the materials will react, and release forms of volatile gases like formaldehyde, benzene and other harmful gases, which will damage our bodies.
3. Improving security. Impact resistant tinted films can serve as an extra safety measure in an event of an accident or robbery, by reducing chances of windows to shatter or completely give out, also reducing the risk of hurting the passengers. By installing high-quality tinted films, its give your car window a nice high-end polish shine, like most imported cars. Another things to bare in mind is that, poor-quality tinted films will melt or wrinkle after a year or so, due to the long periods of exposure to strong sunlight, distorting vision of the driver, and sometimes even makes the drivers dizzy by looking at it, which will result in a traffic safety issue.
4. Barrier against Ultraviolet(UV) rays. Long periods of UV rays exposure, will cause skin damage or even skin diseases. High-quality tinted films will efficiently block out UV rays, protecting your skin. As for poor-quality tinted films, its UV resistant standards are not up to par, the UV rays that gets into the car, will damage your skin, or even damage some items or goods you are carrying.

Summary- After reading this article, you should have a basic understanding of tinted films on the market. You are recommended to first think of the safety aspects of tinted films, like heat and impact resistant tinted films, which also provides a cooling effect from properly blocking out harmful rays, like Infrared rays and Ultraviolet rays, as Malaysian knows that not only strong sunlight can harm you while you are in your car, as do accidents and robbers will too. Secondly, you can consider darkening your tinted films to further block out sunlight and give more privacy in your car if you require.

If you have further questions, or in need of professional advice about tinted films to install on your beloved car kindly contact :

COOLREX TINT SHOP

63, Jalan Kemuning, Taman Melodies, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor.

COOLREX TINT SHOP (NEW BRANCH)

3, Jalan Sagu 17, Taman Daya, 81100 Johor Bahru, Johor.