aomdedude1

As I mentioned in another thread, I recently bought some tint off of eBay. I planned on installing the tint myself and I gave it a try yesterday. I was totally impatient and decided to start the project at 530pm which gave me just a short few hours of sunlight to finish. Well, long story short, I only tried the drivers side window and it came out TERRIBLE!

I was working rushed and in low light. So today I decided to hell with it, and got it done professionally! My eBay tint was 35% and looked like I could have it be just a bit darker. So I decided to have the tint shop do 20%. It looks sooooo dark!

It turned out much darker than I thought it would look. I was attempting to avoid the drugdealeresk look by having it be too dark. I think that with the sliver paint and black interior, it really makes the windows look dark. I wont be paying another 200$ to have it done lighter so I will just have to live with it. Its not that bad at all from the inside!

Here are some pics:






I'm just hoping that the cops wont mess with me too much since in PA the limit is 70%. Don't take me wrong, I don't think the tint looks bad, its just a little on the dark side (no pun.. )

Aeok18109

wow man thats pretty dark. my old car with 35% got pulled alllll the damn time -___- just depends on your county. Im from Lehigh County PA. every other week at least

sha4000

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can you get a shot from the inside at night?

aomdedude1

No prob man... be right back with the night pic..

aomdedude1

Yeah, well the guy at the tint shop egged me on.... he said 20% would be totally fine...

Yeah right.... I'm just saying my prayers to the cop gods... hahaha

aomdedude1

Low light pictures:





I had to break out my dslr because the cell phone wasn't cutting it. I attempted to keep the pictures as true to life as possible. Even with the low light, I'd say these pictures are about 80% accurate to what I really see. The low light visibility for this tint is pretty bad. Basically I've just become a hazard to myself and others on the road! haha... oh well, guess its time to upgrade my headlights and put some super bright led backup reverse lights in!!!

Doc Yota

Looks good. I did 20% up front and 5% on back doors and rear window. For some reason my front windows have darkened to 16% in the past 4 years...go figure.

sha4000

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Yeah I wanted to see how that would affect night driving. I want to do tint but I wear a light prescription glasses and I don't want any issues at night. I might stick to the 35%. I've never had tint on any car by the way.

Sc0pe

iTrader: (1)

Yeah, I think I'm keeping my 20% out back haha. Anybody here running 35%? Been thinking of tinting my fronts 35 because of FL's ridiculous sun.

python

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I have mine at 20 in the rear 3 and 35 on the 2 front, I also have a backup cam

Turbosauce

iTrader: (1)

my car's tint is at 5% for the front sun stirp (above the as-1 line)
20% front windows
and 15% rear windows

and it's literally almost perfect, night driving isn't so bad, and i'm no longer blinded by headlights behind me ( being lowered)
it isn't terrible to drive at night, the only problem i have at alll is the sunstrip trying to read road names.

let's just say if there is no light, i can't
But i'm also crazy.

SkulCracka

hmm nice..... got rid oif my florida ls got a texas lexus now a sc400. about to grab a 95 ls400 tomorrow. for 600 wo0t. guy said he thinks the exaust header is leaking.... well we all know what that means time for a egr pipe. his loss my gain. seems texas allows 25%