well i use to have 20% all around and after getting ticket for the front i got it retinted to 70% which is pretty much clear almost haha but after having that i'm starting to like being able to see but the rear right now is still 20% black tint. the uneveness is kinda bugging me sometimes. do you guys think i should finish off the rest of the car with the 70% or leave it as is?

here's a pic of the car right now...



maybe it's my ocd but the uneveness is annoying at times =/

 

go with 35% in the front windows

 

if its "clear", it isnt "tint"

 

i would just leave it.

 

35% or darker all around, IMO... The 2 %'s on there now are too different for my tastes.

 

I saw your car. It actually looked better in person than the picture. When my car was stock, I felt so naked with the clear windows. Maybe you would consider 35% all around?

 

Its prob you got picked out cause your tint was different shades so it made you an easier target. I say get tint to match all around. I have 5% all around and I don't get picked on *knock on wood*

 

He got the uneven tint after a fixit ticket for 20% all around...

 

ya i had 20% all around before...it sucks cuz it's not even a fix it ticket...it's a non correctable one and i'm still waiting for the ticket to come to tell me how much i have to pay =( so i might as well just change it i'm actually pretty happy with the clear tint since i have have sunglasses most of the time anyways. but yea most likely i'll change it to 35% in the front again. thanks haha

 

whats the point of having 70% tint? get something like 40% all around.

 

im glad there are no laws about tint here

 

http://www.tintcenter.com/laws/OK/

 

on my acura cl I had 70% all around and I tought it looked clean as hell, definately do matching tint, dont listen to anyone that tells you to mix up tints for front and back, that just looks ****ty! if you are sick of getting tickets 70% is no guarantee you wont get a tint ticket again though...

i have 20% all around on my max and 5% on the roof.... i will not be going that dark all around ever again... the 70% all around looks sharp

 

thanks for the input...i'll most likely do the rest of the car 70% but gotta save some money first haha it's going to be $320 for the rest of the car =/

 

why didn't you just pay the fine and keep the tints on your car in the first place... you could get six $60 tint tickets and it wouldnt equal the cost of 1 decent tint job

 

Wow I've never heard of anyone getting tint lighter than 50%.

 

depending on the film/tint brand some tints have excellent heat rejection...

the 70% tint on my CL had a heat rejection of like 46% i think.... the 5% cheapo brand tint only had a heat rejection of 20%....

... some people get tints for reasons other than looks

 

ya the 70% tint i have blocks out 60% of the heat compared to the 20% i had that blocks out 50% heat. but i'm starting to like the clear look so i might just clear the rear. i liked the 20% but i don't want to run into anymore problems =/ i'm going to pass this car to my dad anyways once i get a new car and he doesn't like tint haha

 

there are...just allow a lower percent

 

what brand tint does the really high heat rejection? I kept thinking i should get dark stuff because I'm VERY keen on reflecting the heat but I'm not so liking the night vision issue when its darker. if i could get some 50% with 60%+ heat rejection I'd be all about it

 

^ It's less about the brand and more about the individual films a particular brand makes. Llumar, for instance, has their standard charcoal gray (not sure about the name) and a semi-metallic film called Platinum Plus, which I've had on my last 2 cars. PP rejects more heat and is more reflective because it's semi-metallic.

 

there could be some truth to that... but the tints on my CL were not metallic at all (the brand was Onyx i think, not sure on the spelling but almost positive of the name)... the ones on my max are gun metal, in some light it looks mirrored, in some light it looks like there is 60 percent tint... but when i get tickets the cops machine says 20% (17% actually)

 

the brand for my clear tint is vkool which is suppose to block most heat without being dark. the rear i have 20% madico onyx black tint.


btw it's so hot today my windshield cracked while i was driving

 

i say make it uniform all around

 

$320? Where do you go?

 

it's in santa monica blvd near hollywood area. it's the type of tint that's expensive...usually $700 to tint the whole car. i doubt i'll do that now...have to fix the windshield first lol

 

holy. . .what temp caused a cracked windshield?

 

extreme temp changes cause windows to crack...not the temp itself

 

it was 103 today and my windshield already had a small chip/crack from like 2 years ago. i notice the big crack followed the small crack line. i guess maybe after leaving the car outside for most of the day i had the a/c on coldest when i went for a drive. it just popped and i saw the crack =/ good thing i have tint on my windshield holding the glass in place...sucks this mean i need to retint the windshield again =/

 

I say do 35% all the way around, thats what i have on my max and its perfect IMO. I think either have the tint the same on all the windows ( minus the windshield ) or no tint at all. I personally am not a fan of how cars look with just the rear windows tinted. Thats just my .02 cents tho.

 

yeah cars with just the backs tinted look like crap