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I recently got my car window tinted on the 8th of oct as a bday gift but i have a few questions about it. For those who have tinted windows, are you still able to see clearly from your back windows? I mean are the head lights from the other cars distorted in any way? I notice that that head lights from the other cars now produced kind of like a "stacked" look. There is the head lights in the middle but on the top an bottom of the lights are little tiny lights that are stacked on top of each other.

I think the problem is the defroster on my back window. The tint didn't cover all glass so the air bubbles caused the lights to reflect multiple images of the head light. Is there anyway to correct this problem?


I'm also not sure what kind of brand or the warrenty of the tint because my gf did it for my birthday gift.

I also notice one long air bubble at the bottom of the window. Should it have dried up by now? or should i take it back and have them fix it?

I took some pictures of the air bubble on the bottom of my window but i guess i can't post a link to it till i have 15 post limit...

 
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yah the glare.. i have it too...
i didn't really like it when i first tinted it.. i'm used to it now

as for the bubbles, i think you need to go back and ask them to fix it for you hopefully you get the lifetime warranty

 
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Yeah most places do lifetime warrenty They told me after i got it tinted to come back in 2 weeks and they would fix up any issues. The tempered glass around the egdes makes for bubbles in all our civics you gotta have em push those down. but yeah i get the glare to i dont even notice any more

 
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So there isn't anything we can do about the glare? My friend also has the defroster grid along with tinted windows but he says that he doesn't see multiple lights. Is the defroster grid causing the glare?

 

i know when i had mine tinted it was raining and had a few air bubbles and was told not to open or use the windows rear pass and drivers but after a few day it dryed and looked good i would take it back and say that you have bubbles and your not satsified and see what they can do

 
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I really dont have any issues... but if you have air bubbles in your tint... take it back now! and get them to fix it.. b/c in time that stuff will just get worse and worse.

 
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tint is smoothed out after application with basically a small version of a Bondo spreader (plastic putty knife)... pick one up and carefully go over the back window in a horizontal motion... the air trapped along the defroster lines should move toward the ends as you slide the spreader along, and that should definitely help... but yeah, if it's under warranty, take it back until it's done right...

 
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the "glare" you see is just the refracted light... the light from headlights behind you now goes thru your back glass, gets blocked (ever-so-slightly) by the small defrost lines, and then travels thru the layer of tint. It just appears to be glared because the light has to travel thru the creased (because it has to go over the defrost lines) tint; the "glare" is not a problem with tint film... the bubbles on the other had are. go get that **** fixed.

 
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so does that mean i will always see a "glare" because of the defrost lines?

i'm going to call the store tomorrow so they can have a look at the bubbles.

 
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yes there is no avoiding the glare and its due to the defrost lines.

 
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Yeah, I have about $1500 in tinting on my car (20% premier and then a double coat of 5% comfort). I also have my whole front windshield tinted. The glare won't ever go away. The bubbles aren't good though. Usually it takes about 10 days or so for all the little air-pockets to go away. I really like my tinting, but I don't drive at night if it is raining because I can't see at all. What type of tinting did you get?

 
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just give it a week to make the bubbles go away. or if you want it done fast, leave your windows cracked before you go to bed. it will be cold as **** in the morning but the tint will have no bubbles. i did it in my civic with 20 percent tint. i accidentally left the moonroof open when i tinted my windows on my bday too. next day, no bubbles. no probs. cool accident

 
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well mine wasn't $1500, but i also have 5% all the way around and 35% down the front, and i've never had any issues with glare at all... guess i just got lucky ...im using Llumar Platinum tint, but i'm assuming that my success has more to do with the patience of the installer rather than the name on the box of film...

zach_04LX: what % tint do you have down the front? like i said, mine is 35%, and i can see fine, even at night and/or in the rain (i got it done when i was back home in FL during hurricane season, so i've had the chance to make sure several times haha)... again, this might just be a diffreence in clarity between tint brands or something like that, i'm just wondering...

 
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Is it possible to remove the rear defroster's? I live in Alabama and never ever use them. I would like to remove them and retint the rear, is this possible?

 
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I just got from the tinting place and they said that they would redo the back window tint for me free of charge. They said the reason why i have an air bubble on the bottom corner of the back window is because of the curve of the window places a lot of stress on the tint, hence making it want to curve up. I dunno if that is true or not...

He said that instead of using one sheet of tint for the whole window, he would split it into the top and lower half so that it wouldn't cause too much stress. Will that be a good idea? Is that normally how people would tint the back window?

Should i just have him do the whole window again or take his advice and split the window into two halves?

 
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all my bubbles went away after a week, i got llumar platinum

 
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all he should have to do is use a heat gun and shrink the tint so it to has the curve of the back window. i have no problems and mine is 1 peice.

 
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it's probably to get one piece rather than too...does anyone have a 2 piece tint on their back windows?

 
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i have 3 piece and its fine

 
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your call, bro... i've never had a tint job that had to be sectioned to avoid "Stress", but if the installer has the confidence that he can pull it off without makin it look like a$$, then go for it... and if it's still under warranty, and you still don't like it, just make him do it a third time...

i don't see why he would have to section it though, sounds like to me... the guy that did my tint is in a wheelchair so his FOURTEEN year old son did my back window, and it's 100% perfect.. no glare, no bubbles, no peeling... so if this guy is any kind of "professional", you shouldn't have to take any chances with it getting fvcked up in the first place... just my $.02... good luck!