Smash and Grab | Difference in Smash & Grab and Normal Tint

What is the Difference between Smash-and-Grab and Normal Tint?

Your vehicle’s windscreen and windows are important structural components of your vehicle and should receive protection in the form of smash-and-grab safety film. With a range of various tinting and smash-and-grab applications being offered to vehicle owners; how do you know which product is best to protect you and your vehicle’s windscreen and windows?

The Similarities and Benefits

At Electronic Fitment Centre, we understand the importance of safety and overall vehicle protection and have compiled a list of the benefits as well as the similarities between normal tinting and safety film products.

1. Window tinting and smash-and-grab film provide a degree of privacy.

2. As with a normal tint, safety film forms a shield against the glare of the sun.

3. Up to 99% of harmful UV rays are prevented from entering the vehicle, helping to protect your skin.

4. They protect the interior of your vehicle from fading and cracking.

5. They keep the interior of your vehicle cooler.

The Difference is in the Microns

Knowing the difference between smash-and-grab and a normal tint is one that cannot be seen but is important to know, and it has to do with the number of microns that the film is made from. Typical tinting films are made from 100 microns, whereas a smash-and-grab tint has 200 microns. Having normal tint applied to your windows will provide you with several benefits, but not the one that counts the most, which is protection.

What SunTek Safety Film has to Offer

Our SunTek Safety Film offers the benefit of staying in place if struck with a sharp object, which a normal tint doesn’t. Applying SunTek on the inside of your vehicle’s windows will provide you with peace of mind knowing that should you be a victim of a smash-and-grab incident, the windows of your vehicle will not shatter and splinter upon impact, giving you enough time to get away unharmed.

Improved Visibility

Ensuring that your road visibility isn’t impaired by rain or glare, we offer Diamond Fusion Protection. This film is applied to your windscreen and provides more visibility during heavy rains and reduces night-time glare, increasing your reaction time. An added benefit of Diamond Fusion Protection is that it is impact-resistant.   

Providing you with All Round Vehicle Protection Situated in Hatfield with a team of over 40 installers and 15 tinters, as well as numerous mobile teams that service the Gauteng area, we at Electronic Fitment Centre offer customers a high standard of service and quality installations. Together with our smash-and-grab safety film, we offer tracking and recovery systems, alarms and immobilisers, as well as central locking, to name a few. At Electronic Fitment Centre, we take safety very seriously, so let us take care of your vehicle’s security.