daleer

You have an IS though not a GX right?

GatorGX

Mostly looks. Unless the wife decides that the kids' recent complaints that it is sometimes hot/sunny in the back pushes us to get all windows done. Also b/c doing the rears means making the fronts darker... and would like to stay legal or close (FL fronts 28%) and not have the fronts be too different than the rears.

Thing about doing the rears that turns me off is that the windows become total blackout like you mentioned .... unless I was to use something like 50% rear with the ~25% factory tint (.5 * .25 = 12.5% would be fine) and something like a 20% in the front with the ~70% tint that comes on the front supposedly (.2 * .7 = 14%). So this might be an approach I am considering if I do them all. Again though, puts fronts pretty illegal for FL.

Also, I hear people say that the rear factory tint offers little/no UV or heat rejection. Is this confirmed? I know the front 70% windows say "UV" on them but I do not see this label on the rears.

shodog

I am postive that they block UV and here's why. I have transitions lenses in my prescription eye glasses. When I put them up to the window with the sun shining they don't darken. roll the window down and they go dark within 15 seconds

pump142

ok yes that is the film they applied.

cool on doing it for looks. where Im at its for survival.
I like the "blackout" in the rear so nobody sees what Im haulin. Its actually not that dark at nite. you see thru it fine from inside.

the rear isnt tint at all, its privacy glass. means makes it harder to see you and have minimal to no heat rejection or uv protectant.
when you tint you can feel the difference in some real heat

GatorGX

GatorGreg, did you get yours tinted yet?

GatorGX

I posted something similar in the "Lorenzo Tint" thread but this is maybe a better spot...

I recently tinted the fronts with Suntek Carbon 35% and there is a green hue now when looking from the outside. I may look to change to 3M CS 35% (like the Lorenzo Tint thread said) if it won't have the green hue. I have since read elsewhere that the GX's green tinted factory front glass is the culprit but some films do a better job it seems of hiding the green hue of the factory glass.

If you tinted your front GX windows, do they have a green hue after doing it?

Here is my post on tintdude.com where I got some good info after having the Suntek Carbon 35% put on...
http://www.tintdude.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=37015

I also have a page from Lexus that I will scan in at some point. It shows the light transmission and the UV protection for all of our GX glass.

pump142

color wise yes, but i think the privacy glass wasnt as dark as the 32% IIRC when they did it.

pump142

correct-a-mundo

GatorGX

So no green hue to your front windows with your 32% Solarguard Metalized HPC film?

GatorGX

Hey guys. I guess we are gonna just live with the slightly greenish hue with the front tint on our GX. The shop I got it done at no longer uses 3M CS and I decided it was not worth the hassle. Anyway, I attached a doc that Lexus Tech Support faxed me that shows the VLT and UV reduction of the factory Lexus GX glass. It is valid for all year GX's (at least 2003-2007 and probably 2008 I assume). It mentions the green factory tint for the front windows, btw. I thought that it might be useful to some of you guys.