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Old Oct 22, 2007 | 11:29 PM
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I got my windows tinted months ago, right after them being tinted i took the car to a body shop and they did some work on the rear 1/4 panels. When i got my car back, i noticed there was A LOT of wind noise inside the car. But my GF said, "i think its always been like that." So i ignored it and decided to live with it.

Well i took the gfs beetle for tint a week ago, and now her car has a lot of air noise inside.

Has this happened to anyone?
It's obviously the tint, anyone know why it happens?
Any possible fix besides removing the tint?

It's really fucken annoying so i want to fix it.
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Oh and both cars were tinted at High Tech Auto off of Fuqua, just in case anyone has had a similar problem at this place.
Thanks again
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Old Oct 22, 2007 | 11:39 PM
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wind noise in the car? the only thing i can think of is maybe they messed up the weather stripping, other then that ive never heard of that problem
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Old Oct 22, 2007 | 11:59 PM
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Make sure the seal, located inside at the top of the door panel, where the window rolls down is popped back up. They usually fold it down inside the door panel so the tint line isn't visible. Most of the time it comes back up when you roll the windows up for the first time. If this is a problem with a fixed widow then they must have damaged the weather stripping.
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 09:33 AM
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F*ck High Tech Auto, those cant do anything right. Ive seen several rigged stereo installs from then, and they did mess up the tint on 2 of my friends cars.
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 09:39 AM
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Thats weird we have gotten over 10 of our cars tinited there (that little place in the strip center right?) And they have always done a good job for us. Go back and talk to them. I know that my coworkers tint started to peel after and month and they redid it for him.

Lauren

PS nice car I think you drove by my work the other day and the guys pointed your car out.
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 12:54 PM
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really? Where do you work?
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 01:52 PM
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FWIW, I would check to make sure the door panels are on right. When I got my tint done, they left the panels slightly off so I couldn't even close the door right. I could imagine if I had drove away it would have been letting in road and wind noise.
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 10:20 PM
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I work at the AT&T (cingular) store in the parking lot of the Gringo's there at 45 and Fuqua.
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Originally Posted by neodamonkey
I work at the AT&T (cingular) store in the parking lot of the Gringo's there at 45 and Fuqua.
Really? Me and you need to talk about moving a phone number into my name here shortly.
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 11:38 PM
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I can do that just pm me
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