http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IWlKDNHMg

Is there not a laminate on these windows?? Seems like someone, (you, wife, children) could be really hurt from this flying glass.


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Got any vids with side air bags deploying. I ordered mine with the side airbags and would like to see how they perform.

 

Very few cars have laminated side or rear glass. It is tempered to make it break into little bitty pieces like that. Tempering it makes it stronger too.

 

aftermarket window tint=laminate

 

I'd like to see a crash test with no doors. Just to see if it really makes a difference . All that glass seen from the inside shot did not look good to me. I'm sure it's better than mud/other debris with the doors off though

 

Yeah most vehicles on the road only have laminate on the front. From all the accidents I've seen (larger city cop) the glass doesn't pose much of an issue. If you are hit hard enough to break it you will have greater worries than a few scrapes from the glass. Also in training we shoot through those windows from the inside and get sprayed by that glass yearly most I've gotten was a scratch. I'd be more concerned about the door metal intruding into the passenger cabin. That is where most injuries originate.

 

Your head is closer to that glass than the windshield. It shatters in to chunks so as to cause minimal damage, and prevent a hard impact to your head. Ask yourself how many people face plant into the windshield and turn out ok.

I've seen a few people change to a type of polycarbonate windows after having tons of issues with break-ins. I wouldn't recommend it.

 

That's a scary thought indeed. Never seen this myself but that is a bad idea all around.

Same thoughts on the butacite only on the front. Intresting product. Ages ago I used to recieve rolls of this via refrigerated semi's and would interleave it with another product so it would not stick to itself at ambient temperatures and ship it back out.

 

Several years ago, my wife was T-boned while driving along at 55 in a Trailblazer by a gal in a full size Dodge truck. Gal in the truck was chatting on the phone, blew a stop at near 50 mph. Blazer took the hit in the drivers side front wheel/door area.

Knocked her off the road and she took out a power pole (and the live wires). After they cut her out of the vehicle, spent quite some time picking window glass out of my wifes hair at the hospital. Besides being black and blue from the belts, and a couple very minor scratches from the glass, she was okay.

Found small pieces from the plastic grill of the Dodge truck on the passenger side floor of my wifes Blazer.

As previously posted, it seems flying glass is not the most dangerous part of such an impact. If the hit had been another foot or two back along her vehicle, I think my wife would have been in real trouble.

I am certainly glad she was not in a Wrangler. I put her in a Tahoe instead, the largest vehicle I could get her to accept..

 

I dont see tempered glass hurting much as it breaks. It crumbles as apposed to turning into shards that cut.

On another note, I wonder if rock rails give anymore protection during side impact collisions.