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Old Oct 4, 2003 | 03:39 PM
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hey i was wondering i have a friend that gotten his gs430 tinted on labor day. he noticed just yesterday wiping his car down that on his passenger side window he has like a cloudy haze. looks nothing like wat cars usually looks like after u get it tinted. it kind of looks like smoke. i dunno wat it is. i had no explanation for him. anyone seen anything like this.
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Old Oct 4, 2003 | 03:46 PM
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Don't know if this explains it, plus it's been quite a while since your friend was tinted, but when I got my Lumar tint put on, the installer warned me that it would look cloudy for a while but would clear given a few weeks depending on temp and sunlight. It was, and it did. He might want to talk with his installer.

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Old Oct 4, 2003 | 03:46 PM
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Don't know if this explains it, plus it's been quite a while since your friend was tinted, but when I got my Lumar tint put on, the installer warned me that it would look cloudy for a while but would clear given a few weeks depending on temp and sunlight. It was, and it did.
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Old Oct 4, 2003 | 05:53 PM
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Don't worry about it. Its the glue ...it will turn clear very shortly...really depends on the outside temperature...warmer is better.
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Old Oct 5, 2003 | 12:51 PM
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Originally posted by GS4fun
Don't worry about it. Its the glue ...it will turn clear very shortly...really depends on the outside temperature...warmer is better.
Hmm... it's been over a month since it was tinted. What part of CA. is your friend from and what's the weather like? Seems like it's been quite a long time for there to still be a haze. I'm in So. Cal. and my tint (done around the same time) cleared up in about 2-3 days.
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Old Oct 5, 2003 | 01:38 PM
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that same thing happens to my gs on the back window..and i got it tinted over a year ago.
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Old Oct 5, 2003 | 02:46 PM
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Then maybe the window wasn't properly cleaned or there is a defect with the tint....start over.

If it has been 1 month..you're right..probably wont dissappear anymore.
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Old Oct 5, 2003 | 10:06 PM
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On my car it's not so much a hazy tint as it is an "oily-like" surface. Maybe it's the brand of the tint that you are using? On my bimmer, I have 3M ultra-dark tint and it's beautiful, no reflection, nothing, just straight blackness. On my Aristo, I have the V-Kool platinum tint and it comes back to me mirror-like almost with the strange oil-like haze on an angle. It did not affect vision at all, just seems pretty strange looking.
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