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I need to replace the tinting in my 65 Coupe rear window, scratches and small tears. It’s one piece and it fits great, but I’ve taken it to two tinting places and both said they didn’t think they could do it in one piece, and one refused to do it at all!
Is the material different today than it was 15 years ago?
Yep, I agree with FTF. I see this is so many unrelated fields today. Companies don't want the responsibility of doing a little harder job and only like picking the easy low hanging fruit.
Call Claudio at Pro Tint in Plano and tell him what you have. He has done my cars for years and he does a lot of high end foreign sports cars.
I appreciate the offer, Plano is a bit of a drive for me. Surely I can find a place closer that will do a good job, if I can’t, I’ll contact you. Also, I’d like to have a glass company fill in a pinhole and take out some scratches if they can without distortion. Anybody know how much a new one is?
Call Claudio at Pro Tint in Plano and tell him what you have. He has done my cars for years and he does a lot of high end foreign sports cars.
I paid $100 per rear window with a lifetime guarantee on a top-shelf product. It will more than gain that back in reduced A/C running and the UV protection of my original carpet in the rear of the coupe...
The Huper Optik is damn near undetectable - passed regional judging and has incredible heat and UV rejection... If you don't hold a white piece of paper under the glass and look at it through the window its hard to tell its tinted.
Again, the installer made a paper template of the windows before beginning the real work with a pre-cut piece of tint.
Don't go to one of those installers working out of a taco bus - find somebody that does yachts and commercial buildings - they've seen it all, and, done it all.... The little guys have a hard time recovering the cost of expensive tint if they booger up a piece on a tricky install so they avoid those jobs. The pictures are of this tint on original, factory un-tinted, date-coded glass.
Last edited by Frankie the Fink; Sep 11, 2018 at 07:27 AM.
I paid $100 per rear window with a lifetime guarantee on a top-shelf product. It will more than gain that back in reduced A/C running and the UV protection of my original carpet in the rear of the coupe...
The Huper Optik is damn near undetectable - passed regional judging and has incredible heat and UV rejection... If you don't hold a white piece of paper under the glass and look at it through the window its hard to tell its tinted.
Again, the installer made a paper template of the windows before beginning the real work with a pre-cut piece of tint.
Don't go to one of those installers working out of a taco bus - find somebody that does yachts and commercial buildings - they've seen it all, and, done it all.... The little guys have a hard time recovering the cost of expensive tint if they booger up a piece on a tricky install so they avoid those jobs. The pictures are of this tint on original, factory un-tinted, date-coded glass.
This is with autocity classic smoke tint glass. They say its about 30-35%. Sorry, but don't have a pic with the side window up, but you can see the tint on the vent window. Windshield has smoke sun shade tint.
This is with autocity classic smoke tint glass. They say its about 30-35%. Sorry, but don't have a pic with the side window up, but you can see the tint on the vent window. Windshield has smoke sun shade tint.
You said your windshield is smoked sun shade tint. Is the rest of the windshield clear glass or tinted?
If its from Autocity, which this one is, the whole windshield is tinted smoke as well as the sunshade smoke. I would estimate the windshield is then ~50% shade, but you can call them to confirm. If your car is "showy", I think non tinted glass all around looks better, but then not as functional as tinted.
If its from Autocity, which this one is, the whole windshield is tinted smoke as well as the sunshade smoke. I would estimate the windshield is then ~50% shade, but you can call them to confirm. If your car is "showy", I think non tinted glass all around looks better, but then not as functional as tinted.
" I think non tinted glass all around looks better, but then not as functional as tinted.[/QUOTE]"
Having all clear glass sounds like the correct direction to go.....You can see the interior much better with clear glass and it shows better. If you have A/C it is not a problem.
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