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      04-11-2014, 04:37 AM   #1
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Fish Bowl Delete_Tint Complete

I finally had my windows tinted after 2 months of rocking the fish bowl.

20% sides, 5% rear











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      04-11-2014, 07:58 AM   #2
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Wow...and it goes perfect with the Alpine White. Nice job! Too bad around here in New York, cops always pull people over for tinted windows, especially on Long Island. Almost all my friends who have tinted windows got ticketed. I have a NYC PBA card, but Long Island cops don't honor city PBAs.
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      04-11-2014, 09:02 AM   #3
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I'm going to have my back door and side windows tinted tomorrow. You can't tint windshield and front side windows in Russia. There is a fine and you are to remove the film before you are allowed to drive on.
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      04-11-2014, 09:04 AM   #4
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Car looks great, Alpine is such a great color and the debadge looks great too. Is that at Irvine Spectrum?
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      04-11-2014, 09:13 AM   #5
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Looks great! I'm bringing mine in Monday for tint. NC allows 35% but I'm thinking 20% will be the most practical.
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Yes, looks great.
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      04-11-2014, 11:28 AM   #7
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Thanks guys.

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I'm going to have my back door and side windows tinted tomorrow. You can't tint windshield and front side windows in Russia. There is a fine and you are to remove the film before you are allowed to drive on.
Wow, you can't drive off with them on? That sounds a little excessive. Tinting the front two windows and windshield is illegal in CA too, but we have a grace period of about 2 months to have them removed before we the ticket is signed off.

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Car looks great, Alpine is such a great color and the debadge looks great too. Is that at Irvine Spectrum?
Close, but it's at the movie theater in Aliso.

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Looks great! I'm bringing mine in Monday for tint. NC allows 35% but I'm thinking 20% will be the most practical.
On my last car I had 35%, but I wanted to go a little darker for the white/black contrast. Looks great in 20%.
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      04-11-2014, 12:06 PM   #8
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Cool, thanks. I used to live on the other side of Aliso Woods (and mountain bike through there).
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I finally had my windows tinted after 2 months of rocking the fish bowl.

20% sides, 5% rear
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I went 50% all the way.
Sounds like you may be in violation of California law if you went 20% on your front side windows .



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      04-12-2014, 12:24 AM   #11
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I went 50% all the way.
Sounds like you may be in violation of California law if you went 20% on your front side windows .



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Oh yea, 100%. It's nice to have friends in the CHP.
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I had mine tinted today: 5% on the sides and 15% on the fifth door window.
5% - nothing is seen from outside. Seen well from inside during day time, hardly anything seen in the evening. 15% is not so dark, I can see cars with lights on behind me - day and night.
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What is the best kind of tint to get? And what should I expect to pay for just rear doors and rear windows? I haven't dealt with window tinting since the 80s! I'm hoping the technology is better.
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I used Llumar metallized film. The cost of the material and work will be different in Russia and the US, I guess. I paid a little bit more than a hundred bucks. The same folks that tinted my previous car three years ago (Suzuki SX4). Never had a scratch, decolorization or peeling off.
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Looks good newsbee!

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What is the best kind of tint to get? And what should I expect to pay for just rear doors and rear windows? I haven't dealt with window tinting since the 80s! I'm hoping the technology is better.
My BMW dealer wanted $480 to do what I had done. And apparently that was a "deal" on their end. I paid a guy, who was referred to me by a co-worker, $225 to do all the windows but the windshield. He runs a mobile service, so he showed up and did all the work at my house out of his van. Very convenient.
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My BMW dealer wanted around $400 for the same job - rear windows and door.

PS. The topic starter's white car with dark tinting looks absolutely gorgeous!
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      04-12-2014, 08:48 PM   #17
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I paid little bellow $500 for 35% Formula One Pinnacle (ceramic) all around and Llumar Air Blue (ceramic) on the windshield. To me ceramic is a must to not interfere with the car's reception. It shows lighter than metalized, but that's how I like it on my mineral white with red interior.
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      04-12-2014, 10:38 PM   #18
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Too bad around here in New York, cops always pull people over for tinted windows, especially on Long Island. Almost all my friends who have tinted windows got ticketed.
About 20+ years ago I was rocking a black Acura Legend coupe with gold trim and deep tint (bought used). We were on a road trip and exiting off the freeway in the Bronx to try to drive by Yankee Stadium when a police car came down on us fast. As a genteel Canuck, I was rather taken aback when the officer told me to "put my hands where he can see them" and his partner told my bro-in-law in the passenger seat "not to go for the glovebox". We actually got a ticket for a right turn on red but no mention was made of the tint!

To the OP: nice clean look with the rear debadge too!

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      04-13-2014, 04:22 AM   #19
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d1saster, do you have a photo of the tinted beauty?
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      04-13-2014, 01:00 PM   #20
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Awesome pics. Tint looks so good on a white vehicle. Had my white Ford Raptor tinted but have yet to do so on my X1.
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