Window Tint - Suntek Carbon ?

[DrCactus]

Thanks I will see if they have the 3m tint available as I don't mind paying a little more for better. What % do you ya'll think would look best on our cars ?

I drive my car in the summer months only so the windows are usually down anyhow as well as the roof. The tint is good for when the car is parked in the sun all day while at work etc.... I tend to roll my windows down right away if I am being pulled over just to avoid the 'can't see your hands issue' and I keep both hands on top of my steering wheel until the cop is at my door.... this hopefully solves all possible issues of safety etc...

The weird part about car tint here is that 95% of cars have it, and even cars straight off the car dealer lots already come with window tint... so this law must be pretty loose. Driving in this morning to work I could only see 1 car on the highway that did not seem to have tint on it and it was an old little car probably from the 80s I would guess. Its interesting how dealerships can get away with selling cars with tinted windows when the law says no tint is really allowed... buyer beware I guess just like everything else in life.

[Porsche9]

I thought about my experience with the tint I put on my Boxster versus another car I bought that had tint that the prevoious owner installed. On the Boxster I went with the darkest legal tint which is 33% VLT on the side windows. My other car is definently darker which looks sharp but as soon as the sun starts to go down I find that it's too dark to allow me to see properly for safe driving and I find myself in certain situations rolling the window down to see better. Based on that I would not recommend going darker then 33% VLT. Hope that helps.

[DrCactus]

Originally Posted by Porsche9

I thought about my experience with the tint I put on my Boxster versus another car I bought that had tint that the prevoious owner installed. On the Boxster I went with the darkest legal tint which is 33% VLT on the side windows. My other car is definently darker which looks sharp but as soon as the sun starts to go down I find that it's too dark to allow me to see properly for safe driving and I find myself in certain situations rolling the window down to see better. Based on that I would not recommend going darker then 33% VLT. Hope that helps.

Thanks that's a good tip. I think the tint will help too with the sun hitting the leather.

[Porsche9]

Originally Posted by DrCactus

Thanks that's a good tip. I think the tint will help too with the sun hitting the leather.

Most of the protection to the interior comes from the UV blocking ability of the tint not from how dark the tint is. I believe that most good tints block 95% to 99% of the UV rays regarless of how dark the tint is. I've had window tint on all my cars for over 25 years and only have good things to say in terms of the benefits.

[amagalla]

Wow. You edited a quote from me to remove all context.

[DrCactus]

Originally Posted by amagalla

Wow. You edited a quote from me to remove all context.

Nevermind...

[batshapedheart]

I'd go with 3M. I got my windows tinted just one grade darker than whatever was legal because Florida

[particlewave]

I never go with more than 20%. Anything more looks like someone I'd profile if I were a police officer.

15-20% allows plenty of cabin visibility and still makes the passenger cabin much more tolerable on sunny, hot days.
You can see through it well enough that someone took a hammer to this window when parked on campus in an attempt to steal an iPod left on the seat (note the marks on the window). The Neon's glass won.