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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 02:48 PM
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any suggestions on tints on an aegean blue tl-s 2002
going this friday, was thinking of limo black but maybe a little lighter might look better?
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 02:51 PM
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Re: window tints

Originally posted by clarkdude
any suggestions on tints on an aegean blue tl-s 2002
going this friday, was thinking of limo black but maybe a little lighter might look better?
go with either 35% all around, or 35% on the sides, and 20% on the back.

limo IMO looks crappy...way too black.
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 02:54 PM
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what color is your interior, if its light then i'd say 15%... but if its dark then 20%
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 02:55 PM
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ya mine is black interior, so it definitely appears to be darker...IMO it changes the look of the entirely...and for the better that is!!!
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 02:55 PM
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black interior
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 02:59 PM
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35's on the side and 20 for the rear glass. That would be perfect. Since u have a dark color car, putting dark tins would ghetto thug it out.
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 03:04 PM
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Originally posted by NYDesi80
35's on the side and 20 for the rear glass. That would be perfect. Since u have a dark color car, putting dark tins would ghetto thug it out.
that's exactly what I did, and IMO it looks fucking amazing...

on top of which, I wanted it too be slightly darker in the back, I'm sure many of you know why anyways, I put the 20% only in the back, because I figured that since less light would come through the rear glass, that the back tints on the side would be visibly darker...I was right...

now it looks like I have 35% in the front, and about 25% in the back cause of the back windshield...it is not hard at night to see out of it at all, and looks so nice at night...

I love the look.
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 03:09 PM
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Originally posted by NYDesi80
35's on the side and 20 for the rear glass. That would be perfect. Since u have a dark color car, putting dark tins would ghetto thug it out.
That's exactly how I have it and it's light enough that the cops don't bother you, even in NJ where it's pretty strict.
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 05:00 PM
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SC354... can you post some pics of ur car, cuz my friend didnt believe me when I told him that you can mix and match the percentage tints, so i would like to show him a pic, my car is 20% all around, but then again I have WDP so it doesnt look bad. Even on silver car like goldendragon576 20's wont look bad, but if 35's would give you move visibility out the window.
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 05:43 PM
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I have an SSM/Ebony and 35% all around. I can't see inside at all at night, and only make out person figures during the day. Dark enough for me, light enough not to get pulled over (35% is the legal limit in Michigan).
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 05:58 PM
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Originally posted by sc354
that's exactly what I did, and IMO it looks fucking amazing...

on top of which, I wanted it too be slightly darker in the back, I'm sure many of you know why anyways, I put the 20% only in the back, because I figured that since less light would come through the rear glass, that the back tints on the side would be visibly darker...I was right...

now it looks like I have 35% in the front, and about 25% in the back cause of the back windshield...it is not hard at night to see out of it at all, and looks so nice at night...

I love the look.
why would you want the tints to look differnet?...different percentage is as ghetto as limo tints....i went with 20% all the way around and it look nice imo....in the day time people can still see me so its not too dark at all...anything darker then 20 ass....and darker tint on the rear windshield jsut makes it worse cause you get so little light in from the back and so much in from the front...that your side window slook mismatched and ghetto
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 06:02 PM
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go with 35% all around, the windows come slightly tinted a little from the factory, so if the windows were measured with another 35% tint on them, it would be about 29% or so.
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 06:49 PM
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why would you want the tints to look differnet?...different percentage is as ghetto as limo tints....i went with 20% all the way around and it look nice imo....in the day time people can still see me so its not too dark at all...anything darker then 20 ass....and darker tint on the rear windshield jsut makes it worse cause you get so little light in from the back and so much in from the front...that your side window slook mismatched and ghetto
I disagree completely. The only way different percentage tints will work is if the rear glass is slightly darker then the rest of the car. 35% on the sides and 20% on the rear glass .. when you look at it, you would think that the preson did 30% all around, and if they have a dark interior then u would think they did 25% all around.

I did 20% all around cuz I think 35% is a little too light. I dotn want people to see me inside and with 35% during the day time u can see practically right through, and at night time, u can make out figures. This is not what I wanted and so went with 20% and couldnt be happier.

This is just my opinion.
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Old Mar 24, 2004 | 08:03 PM
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3% tint

i have 20% on the front two windows and 3% on all the other windows and my car is white and if i ever want it to look lighter inside i can either open the sunroof visor or just open the sunroof completely so i dunno all this talk about it being ghetto i just think evreyone has a diff taste. but i say u go with whatever u like personaly i like it dark in my car day or night.
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Old Mar 25, 2004 | 06:36 AM
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20's all around is the way to go.





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