Sunday, September 23, 2012

DIY car window tint is impossible

Tinting car windows for a living? All my respect!

* this is not my car
I have a Dodge Charger. That car cries for pimping :) Many people pimp it up nicely. So far I only replaced the exhaust pipes, but always wanted to have my windows tinted, too. I was too cheap to spend $300-350 on window tint. So I ordered a pre-cut kit from Amazon for $35 and thought I'm going to do it myself. I watched I think enough tutorial videos on YouTube and I was positive I'm able to do it myself. It seemed so easy.

It ain't!

Side windows are not too complicated. Note: There's a huge difference between a heat gun and a blow dryer... Rear window, impossible. First you are supposed to heat-shrink the tint from the outside so it takes the curves of the window, than you should put it up from the inside. The Charge has a huge and relatively  horizontal rear window. I just couldn't do it.

I think if I had a minivan or SUV with relatively vertical windows I could have succeed if I started with the heat gun from the beginning. But this car is gonna be tinted in a shop by a guy who does this for a living!

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