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Has anyone noticed that the black edge trim on the windshield next to the pillar on the driver side is a solid line. The window edge trim on the passenger pillar side, however is graduated. It's made up of small dots that gradually increase in size/volume and go to solid black. Does anybody have any speculation or thoughts as to why this would be so? Just curious.

More or less, they're just there to block/absorb/do whatever they do with the sun's rays... Unsure why they chose to put the dots only one one side and not the other though.

Probably saved $.005 in materials per windshield (solid vs dot grid) X 250,000 windshields = $1,250 savings for the manufacturer today, to spend on mailing safety recall notices tomorrow! LOL

The 03's have it too and in fact a lot of vehicles have it now. Seems OEs are using the blue tinited top glass less for these types.

Could be that the dots were omitted from the driver's side so that they did not affect light getting to the automatic headlight sensor on that side of the dash.

They should have omitted the A Pillar too then heheDave

Yep, they're getting cheap! Strange, my Vibe cost $10,000 more than my buddy's Rio, yet he has the tint at the top! What's wrong with that picture? I had to get a strip of tint put on mine, made things so much more livable in there... Quote, originally posted by DavidPIL »They should have omitted the A Pillar too then heheSo true! ha!!

when you have your window changed for any reason get the shop to put a shaded one in.i did mine shortly after getting the car.tell them you want a DW1489 shadedthe black thing is called a ceramic frit it is there to stop the uv rays of the sun from breaking down the urathane seal. the dots are only on the pass side as not to interfere with the feild of vision of the driver.