tinted front windshields
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From: The Houndstooth
Originally Posted by gi8e7oi825
UV rays? Really? UV rays cause tanning, sun burns, and can lead to skin cancer. Have you experienced any of the aforementioned effects whilst standing/sitting behind a window? If you have, let me know. I'd like to avoid whatever brand or quality of glass you're using. Thanks.
No clear glass, including automotive, blocks all UV rays... Is it stupid to wax your car to protect it from the elements just because water beading doesn't cause cancer? pleez.
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From: The Houndstooth
Originally Posted by SSmokin99
How do you tint the Fbody windshield? That would be a BITCH to do!
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From: The Houndstooth
Originally Posted by LS1 Eddie
Maybe to you but it was pretty bad *** to us. 35% would have been more suitable.
Originally Posted by A-man930
sorry, I just had to use that one 
Someone put up some pics of a 50% tint with a darker strip... that sounds to be the most cop-resistant/friendly combination... personally i effing hate when people do a dark band strip with a tinted windshield. to me it looks tacky, but i really don't like bandstrips to begin with so i think that's my grudge lol. i will say though when someone does a limo strip and tints the rest lighter it is less "noticably" but on an overcast day, everything just looks BLACK!
**** i forgot pictures at work again....i promise to get some sooner or later, i was about to punch a custo out today lol cause he was pissin me off so i left work a bit faster and angrier today then normal
**** i forgot pictures at work again....i promise to get some sooner or later, i was about to punch a custo out today lol cause he was pissin me off so i left work a bit faster and angrier today then normal
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From: The Houndstooth
Here's the only two decent shots of the windshield that I have taken since the whole windshield was done w/ 35% and a 15% strip... I'll take some more the next decent day and post them too....
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From: Lexington, NC
Originally Posted by RollTideTA
Cops don't care around here about your tint... its so hot in the summer time everyone (including the cops) have dark tint.
-bryan
Originally Posted by bmccrary
A few years back when our local Sheriff Gerald Hege was around, he had all the deputy cars painted black with like 15% all the way around! And then they would turn around and write tickets for having 30%... it was gay. But then again, this was the same guy how had a Impalla SS built by RCR, then shut down a section of HWY 52 to see how fast he could go. They guy was nuts...
-bryan
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There is only 1 cop in the town were my work is that is a ***** with tint. the same guy that's given me many tint tickets...Officer Dan Reynolds, his nickname around town is the Tint ****, be gave my friend 3 tickets in 1 day for tint on his formula...he had to file a freakin harrassment complaint..the kicker is, Officer Reynolds is my friend's neighbor!!
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From: Stafford/San Marcos TX
when ur tinting the windshield where do u put the registration and inspection stickers though? do u cut holes in the tint for them? or just put it over? cause it looks as though the stickers might tear or mess up the tint when taking them off.
and ss4matt wat is the best cleaner to use on windows w/tint, i use invisible glass and it saids its safe for tint but are there any other suggestions since ur in the tint business.
and ss4matt wat is the best cleaner to use on windows w/tint, i use invisible glass and it saids its safe for tint but are there any other suggestions since ur in the tint business.
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From: The Houndstooth
Originally Posted by clean99
when ur tinting the windshield where do u put the registration and inspection stickers though? do u cut holes in the tint for them? or just put it over? cause it looks as though the stickers might tear or mess up the tint when taking them off.
and ss4matt wat is the best cleaner to use on windows w/tint, i use invisible glass and it saids its safe for tint but are there any other suggestions since ur in the tint business.
and ss4matt wat is the best cleaner to use on windows w/tint, i use invisible glass and it saids its safe for tint but are there any other suggestions since ur in the tint business.
yeah i live in michigan...our air quality is **** and we have no "registration" stickers or anything here in MI....however it's not a good idea to put stickers on tint because when you try to pull a sticker off the tint it can sometimes pull the tint off the window...when i was in Highschool and we had to put some gay *** "parking pass" stickers on our windows, i would just stick the sticker on some celephane (sp???) or a piece of zip-lock bag and just throw it on my dash....you can throw a sticker on tint, just be careful when you take the sticker off........
as far as a cleaner, i use glass cleaner by a company called sterling laboratories. if memory serves me, stoner brand makes "invisable glass" and that is safe on tinted windows and also a very good glass cleaner!! as long as the cleaner says "safe on tinted windows" you're strait...i think the amonia in some glass cleaners is what makes some tint fade faster and can dry up and make some shitty brands of tint crack and whatnot...sometimes it can losen the adhesive as well...
and we have no "registration" stickers or anything here in MI....however it's not a good idea to put stickers on tint because when you try to pull a sticker off the tint it can sometimes pull the tint off the window...when i was in Highschool and we had to put some gay *** "parking pass" stickers on our windows, i would just stick the sticker on some celephane (sp???) or a piece of zip-lock bag and just throw it on my dash....you can throw a sticker on tint, just be careful when you take the sticker off........as far as a cleaner, i use glass cleaner by a company called sterling laboratories. if memory serves me, stoner brand makes "invisable glass" and that is safe on tinted windows and also a very good glass cleaner!! as long as the cleaner says "safe on tinted windows" you're strait...i think the amonia in some glass cleaners is what makes some tint fade faster and can dry up and make some shitty brands of tint crack and whatnot...sometimes it can losen the adhesive as well...
Last edited by SS4Matt; Jan 2, 2007 at 08:34 PM.
Originally Posted by candlelit
6% ??? that's about stupid. I don't even know a place I could buy 6% from. I don't understand why it's not 5.
Originally Posted by RedsTA
You realize that 6% is pretty much exactly the same as 5% if not exactly. My 5% tint rated in at 3.5% or something like that when my other car was pulled over and checked. Tint % is just an estimate as far as i know, otherwise my tint would have been 5% like it was suppose to be.
well it's a shitty camera phone picture but it's all i had....i regular custo of ours ends up he works for some company that makes all the stages and setups for all kinds of shows and whatnot, and they're busy as hell right now with the NAIAS "Detroit Autoshow" coming up. his company sent us 2 brand new H2's to tint, 2 brand new Saturn vue redlines, a dodge caliber and a nitro to tint all last week...and then they had a brand new stang that my boss had to go to their building to tint...anyways, my ex girlfrind help me take back all the other cars today and when we got there the stang my boss tinted last week was sitting outside...again shitty camera phone picture but this thing got tinted with 15% all around EVEN THE WINDSHIELD! it looked bad *** for sure, they said after where ever the car is going it will come back and we will be stripping it, they just wanted it tinted for whereever it's going....my boss's H2 is in the background limo all around and he has 50% on his windshield right now.... wow short story there 
excuse my finger that was aparently covering part of the lense 
excuse my finger that was aparently covering part of the lense 
Originally Posted by RollTideTA
my whole windshield is 35% with a 15% strip across the top... I love it visibility is fine with 35%. Cops don't care around here about your tint... its so hot in the summer time everyone (including the cops) have dark tint. You'd have to really **** someone off to get a tint ticket around here.