DIY Tint vs Professional Tint
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DIY Tint vs Professional Tint
Hello, I want to get my windows tinted, but I cannot decide whether or not I should do it myself for $20-30, or have a store do it for $150. How hard is tinting?
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if you do it yourself it's gonna look like crap, and then you'll end up taking it to a shop to have them fix it and it will end up costing you more for them to remove your crap tint job and then install a proper one...
just go get it done at a shop, it's not like it's a shit load of money or anything...
just go get it done at a shop, it's not like it's a shit load of money or anything...
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Originally Posted by kdogg24
Hello, I want to get my windows tinted, but I cannot decide whether or not I should do it myself for $20-30, or have a store do it for $150. How hard is tinting?
If you can get it done for $150 then you are lucky as well. I don't touch them for less than $220 and the price is gonna go up a little bit since they take forever to do because of the damn window gaskets that scratch the tint. A TSX would take me 1.5-2hrs to tint if I didn't have to remove door panels and add felt. That adds an extra 1.5 hrs when it's all said and done. The TSX is a super easy car to tint, it just takes forever because of those damn gaskets.
Do not try to do it yourself. Maybe if you blew $900 on an old school civic and were trying to save a few bucks on it, then try it yourself. A vehicles windows make up for about 1/3 of the vehicles exterior appearance. Crappy window tint can make a car look 5 years older than it is. Just pay someone to do it right.
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