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Old Nov 18, 2008 | 07:10 PM
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I have a plastic window on my vert and would love to make it harder to see in. But I don't know if it can be tinted. Any ideas? I have VHT nightshades but I would think that would crack and peal after a while.

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Old Nov 18, 2008 | 11:40 PM
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Huh, mines glass and limo tinted, yours have a replacement top?
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Originally Posted by 99'CajunFirehawk157
Huh, mines glass and limo tinted, yours have a replacement top?
Didn't know they came in plastic, wonder what it would run to replace that section of the top with glass.
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Old Nov 19, 2008 | 02:31 PM
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VHT makes a spray on tint but I'm not sure how well it works...

Check out their website.
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My back glass got shattered out. So I replaced the to with a vinyl top. I think the vinyl looks alot better than the cloth top. But to get the glass window it was twice the price.

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Old Nov 20, 2008 | 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by pjmayher
My back glass got shattered out. So I replaced the to with a vinyl top. I think the vinyl looks alot better than the cloth top. But to get the glass window it was twice the price.

P.J.
Tastes are interesting aren't they. I went from a vinyl top to the cloth because I thought it looked better and yeah, I remember that the glass section was a large jump in cost.

I have had the plastic window on a number of cars, the problem I had with them was them cracking when I put the top up when the top was cold, so watch for that, and they all seemed to go cloudy on me. I was told both things were because I used to have a habit of leaving the tops down for extended periods.

On my olds I would leave the top down for months on end during the summer, I was told that is a bad thing.
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Originally Posted by pjmayher
My back glass got shattered out. So I replaced the to with a vinyl top. I think the vinyl looks alot better than the cloth top. But to get the glass window it was twice the price.

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Post some pics of the vinyl top.
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Old Dec 4, 2008 | 10:42 PM
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I will do that with the camara that I'm buying my fiancee for christmas.

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