Good knife/ window breaker combo

#1 rule unless it is tungsten carbide or hard ceramic pass on it. It doesn't matter what anyone says tempered glass can resist multiple strikes from any other material. Spring loaded is best as it requires no force other than pressing it against the window. Only break out side windows as the front window is typically laminated which means even if you break it, it will stay in one large sheet. If you want proof here is a tungsten carbide bead about the size of a breath mint used against a side window.
Please don't trust your life or the lives of others to what people claim. I doubt aluminum will break real tempered glass especially with a sideways strike from inside the vehicle.
 
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From my research that cheap resqme tool is what actually could save someone's life. Will probably pick up a few to pass on to loved ones. Such a vital tool to have here in FL. Thanks guys.
 
Okay, I give up. Wading through google is getting me nowhere, where the heck did you get the tungsten bead, Stainless90?
 
That spring glass punch is a great little invention able to exert 12 pounds of pressure. I wish they had that tool on a decent knife. I don't know how reliable that blade is for cutting through seatbelts efficiently. It looks like you need to use it on a angle rather then parallel cutting. Maybe it's good for that one capable person. If I bust the glass cut myself out but can't make it to loved ones in back seat then I'd wish I'd would have just stayed in. I will probably be telling lots of loved one's about this. It's good for everyone to use. To me this tool should be taught and trained with kids so they don't have to depend on that capable person specially if they are injured. Parents might not make it but a teen might if he knows what to do.
 
I have to agree with those that suggested a spring loaded center punch to break the window.

I spent years as a medic and I never found anything that worked better than a center punch to take out a window. Combine that with a Benchmade strap cutter and you are good to go.

May I make two suggestions?

1. What ever gear you end up with, please take it to a wrecking yard and try your gear on a car that they are ready to crush. Do it at least twice, more if possible. Once while you are strapped in the driver's seat and once when you are outside the auto. Make sure to wear gloves and long sleeved clothing.

2. Secure your gear in your own car so that it will not move around in an accident. You would be amazed how much things move around when you wreck an automobile. Remember to keep it so that you can reach it if your seatbelt locks up and you can't move around.
 
I've been singing this same song for a long time, but here it goes again. [emoji849]

The POINT of most knives is a "built in glass breaker". Open knife, place point against glass, forcefully thrust other hand into butt of handle. That = broken glass. It ain't rocket science, and it works.

Try it. It'll make all your dedicated tools pale in comparison. Most whiz-bang super steels these days sharpened to a sharp point work great as glass breakers.
 
ResQMe is really effective, but you gotta practice. Hand them out to family and friends and they can attach one to their car keys.

A lot of these gadgets may seem like toys. But used right they are really like parachutes. If you don't have it when you need it, you probably won't ever need one again.
 
+1 for this beauty :)
onojoe said:
The benchmade 915 Triage is the obvious choice. A purpose built rescue knife. Has a main blade in a variety of configurations (Blunt tip, chisel tip, serrated, non serrated) a glass breaker and a seatbelt cutter.

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Smith&Wesson made a rescue knife with a spring loaded glass breaker. I gave one to a paramedic friend many years ago. The knife itself isn't great, and I wouldn't really trust the lock, but she likes being able to break glass with less risk of cutting herself swinging a tool.
 
Recently someone I know responded to a car fire and had to break a car window to vent the fire. He tried one of those MTECH knives and it failed miserably, which was not a shock to me (it wouldn't be a shock to most of us either) after he told me about it. I think the MTECH failed for two reasons (1) the glass breaker is too fat to direct all the striking energy in one point (2) the knife has a pot-metal frame that cannot withstand the force of the glass breaker being pushed into it. Long story short, the window was broken by one of those spring punches. MTECH should be ashamed to market their knives to Firemen, Police, and EMT/EMS personnel when they are going to fail in potentially life threatening situations, which lucky for all parties involved, the particular car fire in question was not.
 
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