Please give me you advice on tinting my windows

guitar333 · 09-22-2003, 12:25 AM

I am looking for an effective, cheap yet quality way of tinting my windows. I would take it to a tinit shop but the quote I got was over my budget ($260). I would get the do-it-yourself tinit from Wal mart but it looks like crap, it is cheap purple colored and bubbles up easy. What do you think about this spray tint..... http://www.pjhbrands.com/vht/smokewindowtint.htm ? i am thinking of doing thi but I dont want to F my windows up. i would like it to be dark. thanks

For those of you that have tinted your windows, how was it?

Seraph · 09-22-2003, 12:35 AM

Spray tints are ok but they will wipe out. Very easy to get scratched. Get a bottlefor the hard to reach places and cover the rest with regular tint. For 250 bucks, I'd do my car in a heart beat. They quoted me around 350-400 bucks and I can't tint my own windows. I have 4 windows on each side of my car and one hard to reach one in the back.

guitar333 · 09-22-2003, 12:48 AM

actually i wasnt quoted but that was what i guessed, mabe i underguessed because I have 8 windows on my cherokee

TiTUS · 09-22-2003, 01:15 AM

I work with a buddy of mine who installs security laminate, this stuff is awesome!! Looks good, comes in light, dark, mirrored and in varying degrees of thickness. You can take a baseball bat to a window and you wont get through it.. With the thicker laminates and thicker glass you can shoot it with a high power gun and it'll stop the bullet.

Anyways, the company is called Ace Laminates and my buddy is a local dealer for it, but I'll give you the main website and you can look for yourself...

Ace Security Laminates

I have this on some of my house windows and am planning on putting it on my van as well, dark tint the back windows and clear tint (or light tint) the driver/passenger front windows...

TiTUS

carabuser · 09-22-2003, 02:47 AM

damn, what cars do you guys drive???

tint here is about $100-150....

PHoeNiX · 09-22-2003, 03:00 AM

Thats rediculous $350 US for window tint. In Australia you can get a large family sedan done for $200 AUS, sometimes cheeper when theres deals going like 2 for 1 ect.

guitar333 · 09-22-2003, 03:26 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by carabuser

damn, what cars do you guys drive???

tint here is about $100-150....

Jeep Cherokee, 3 windows on each side and huge rear window

bosstone74 · 09-22-2003, 04:28 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by TiTUS

I work with a buddy of mine who installs security laminate, this stuff is awesome!! Looks good, comes in light, dark, mirrored and in varying degrees of thickness. You can take a baseball bat to a window and you wont get through it.. With the thicker laminates and thicker glass you can shoot it with a high power gun and it'll stop the bullet.

Anyways, the company is called Ace Laminates and my buddy is a local dealer for it, but I'll give you the main website and you can look for yourself...

Ace Security Laminates

I have this on some of my house windows and am planning on putting it on my van as well, dark tint the back windows and clear tint (or light tint) the driver/passenger front windows...

TiTUS

Whats does this stuff cost? any Idea?

Cedrik · 09-22-2003, 04:48 PM

that's a lot just for tinted windows, i got my jeep quoted for $180

guitar333 · 09-22-2003, 06:34 PM

well I guess thats what I get for living in a town where there is only one tint shop in a 50 mile radius

bjm2020 · 09-22-2003, 06:41 PM

Thats really overpriced, I paid $150 for tint on a nissan frontier king cab and they thru in a cheap alarm also.

ScYThE · 09-22-2003, 06:44 PM

126.50 on my car. That was both side windows and the rear. Lifetime warrenty. I have an impala, so there is a bit of glass to tint but the SUV's are running like 200 round here. Id pay for it

98explorerxlt · 09-22-2003, 07:52 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by ScYThE

126.50 on my car. That was both side windows and the rear. Lifetime warrenty. I have an impala, so there is a bit of glass to tint but the SUV's are running like 200 round here. Id pay for it

Alot of tint shops here dont have set prices so if you go in there and act like you dont know anything about tint they can jack the price up alittle

kami333 · 09-22-2003, 09:16 PM

$230 to do my Impreza wagon doing all 7 windows (front 2 at 50%, back 5 at 18%), the good stuff with full scratch warranty.

MeanGT · 09-22-2003, 09:28 PM

I shopped around, and paid $125 for it (shops in my area ranged from $115 up to $200), and it was well worth it. I attempted to tint my own windows once in a previous car, and it turned out horrible. I highly recommend you bring it to a shop.

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