Your windshield is good for lots of things! Like deflecting rocks. Or keeping bugs from flying into your mouth! Or keeping your carefully coiffed hair out of the tussling wind. Or acting as a barrier between you and that fearsome-looking leopard on the savannah. But your windshield is important to you in even more fundamental ways than these. Here are just three:
- Structural Integrity – Your automobile’s manufacturer carefully designed your car to direct crash energy during an accident. That is to say, your car is made to crumple in the safest way possible. Your windshield is an integral part of your automobile’s energy management system. If your windshield is damaged, the frame might crumple incorrectly, jeopardizing the safety of you and your passengers.
- Rollover Protection – The strength of your windshield actually props up the roof of your car, so that it won’t collapse as easily if flipped on its head. In fact, the windshield can supply between 30% and 50% of your car’s strength in a rollover.
- Framing Your Airbags – Your windshield frames in your passenger-side airbag. If the windshield were gone, the air bag would be unrestrained and wouldn’t be an effective cushion.
Your windshield shows you a lot more love than you might think. That’s why it’s so important to take good care of it. Don’t let rock chips jeopardize your windshield’s integrity! Stop into Expert Auto Glass, your Utah Auto Glass experts, and return the love your windshield gives you every day.