It was around 65 degrees outside in Plano Texas Today..so i decided to take some pictures....

And yes someone hit me on my rear bumper and ran..ill fix that during spring...and for the passenger side door and side skirt...i have some black tar from the road smear over it..any ideas of gettin it off?..

 

Did they steal your lipkit too?

Like the rims!

What percentage of tint is that? Looks dope

 

Thanks!!..no i took off my lipkit...im probally going to end up selling them soon..oh and the tint is 3%

 

ouch sorry bout the back =/
car still looks sexy though

 

go get some WDP touchout paint for now so the rear bumper doesnt look so bad.. about the tar, go to the Wash&Wax section, im sure they have a lot of diff ways to get if off!!

other than that, car looks great! i love dark tint on white cars!

 

nice

 

dark tint on white car = money

 

woohoo we got the same shoes!

 

Thankx !!

Yea i was planning to Sand, Primer and Paint my Bumper flat black..But thanks for the info on the cleaning part very much appriciated

thankx!!

True I thought i had 5% tint..but when a cop in Huntsville Tx around the outskirt of Houston pulled me over she said i had 3% tint =) ...and i got a ticket too she even made me get out of my car and ask if i had any weapons are anything she need to know about i was standing on the side of the road with the WTF face

Woot!!...But urs is more shinny i need to repolish mines

 

same here, but he also asked me if i had drugs, searched me and the car, asked me if the car was stolen, and put me in the back f his car for like 5 minutes.. (and this is before i had tint when the car was brand new w/ temp tags!) he had NO reason to pull me over either

 

Man thats horrible u was in the back of the cruiser..u should be on COPS LOL! im jk ..but doing the full search was uncall for though...

but the first thing she told me to do was get out of my car and stand on the side of the road..i thought that was kind of out of place...i think she dig through my car for about 1 minute only in the glove compartment and stuff...but i find it amusing how she ask me if i had any guns or weapons she need to know of

 

What up from Ft Worth !! Who did your tint? . it would be worth me driving over there to get my back window redone. Its got bubbles and stuff in from the defroster. Tl looks sweet in white .

 

Looks good!

For the tar, get some bug remover spray. It'll take the tar off.

 

to the warm weather, we at least got into the 40's today though, but breezy

 

My tint is as dark as yours, but why do i feel like people can still see me when i'm in the car? haha

Give me your side skirts. I'll put it to good use.

 

nice ride.

 

I just recently moved here..i got my tints done from Port Arthur Texas where i used to live..yea and the back window i never turn on my defrost on the back window cause i would predict that would happen

I have bug remover spray but i cant find it..But i will try it though..Thankx for the info

Whoaa..Around 3 pm ish It was 75 degrees outside really warm

Im selling my car...I already took off the rims and lipkit..but im going to put the rims back on for the meet this saturday..hehe..but ill see about the side skirts

Thanks!! =)

 

Put on the lip kit so you won't get embarrassed at the meet haha

 

we actually have to use our rear window defroster here, but anyways if you get a quality tint that is installed properly it won't purple or bubble, my car has gone through 6 winters and the tint was installed when the car was basically new (previous owner had it done, but i know exactly where it was done) (car now has 105K, so proably has been on for 95-100k), and still looks just like the tint on the side with absolutely no bubbles, or a hint of purple

 

LOL!!..i think im the only 2nd Gen thats going to be there..it still look good without the lip kit...i think the C5's alone is enough...oh and im thinking about gettin a 3rd gen TL..black or white..=)

I have no bubbles in the back window at all..maybe ill try the defrost when it gets really cold outside but usually i really dont need it here in texas..its rarely cold enough to use it

 

then it was proably was installed right, but yeah the purpleing is usually from the tint being a lower quality, so maybe just make sure to get a quality tint then

yeah we have to be able to get ice and frost off the windows here

 

man looked real dope with the lip kit still looks good though

 

oh man...i havnt experience frozen ice on my windows in a long time maybe about 2 years now...

but dont u have to change out ur tint after a certain amount of time?..what are the life span on the tints?

 

Thanks!!..i kinda like it without too...

I liked it with lipkit on also..it looked more aggresive..but im selling the car so i took them off

 

i know i remember hearing something like every 6 years or something, but i think some of that is to try and sell more tint though, but i will proably be getting alot darker tint soon anyways, so i guess i am following there recomendations on getting it changed (it is only like 30% right now, i want like 5% or so)(but anyways i will be getting it done at the same place it was done origienally before with the same brand of tint as before [and proably the same line [same color, semi reflective] too, just alot darker)

 

^^Oh i c...i dont know quality of tint or anything but i know tint on tint is bad...and also i hear tint wont bubble up unless the person install it for u does it really good...

for instant i heard..if the tint person does it really good...in 3 hrs or so u can roll down your window without problem..i dont know if u heard of that or not

 

yeah normally a good quality tint job (with quality tint) will cost more, but you don't gotta pay more down the line when it does start to turn purple and stuff to get it redone (and i know pulling the tint off the back window is like $100, basically same price to just install tint on the back window , i could pull the old tint off myself, but don't feel like F***ing up the heater grid and such ) and for me i got qouted at like $225 without removing the old tint for the new tint

 

i got a lifetime warranty on my tint =]

 

dam they charging an arm a leg there..where i used to stay..this place done tint for years everyone recommends that area..and its like 120 for removing and installing...and they do a good job also...

 

oh the place i do my tint has lifetime warranty on it too..but since my tint are illegal in the front i have no kind of warrenty

 

if you are the origional owner that got it installed , but a quality tint will have something along those lines


and nothing is wrong with my tint at all, i just want darker and no third brake light showing through, when i got a spoiler for that

 

I want darker tint like that. Mine is only 18%, looks good but I want that 3% now!

 

not trying to be racist or anything, but i think with being closer to the border it helps drive down the cost alot for tint (alot of tint places, where not so many here)

 

I agree im not racist or anything either but..In the hood, Port Arthur Texas Price can be 80 Bucks for take off and Put on

But around Plano Texas (The Upper Middle Class area) they charge around 220 250...i went to a few shops..i kinda look at them like !?!?...i told myself i rather drive 6 hrs save over 100 bucks then use that money to go out...

I wonder if Anyone Tried Color TINT on their TL's yet or Mirror Tint??

 

but that $100 is kinda offset just in gas alone (200 or so miles each way???, at about 65 i guess, 65) and a hotel if you gotta stay overnight (since they need a couple of hours to do it), let alone your time, so kinda up to you if you want to try and save that money by driving further

 

^oh since its my hometown..I just stay at my cousin's house...And the gas will be forsure about 60 bucks...so with the 40+ dollars i can do a lot...i usually Play slot machine at my aunt's Corner store...about 80% of the time i always have more money Haha!!

 

that work's too, and you also have things to go do too, and not have it being some forign town, and wounder what the hell you are going to go do for a couple of hours

 

Well usually when i go down there...i stay for a weekend at least...and in one weekend u can do a lot of things...

not just that i could go have a blast on the weekend also still have extra money come back to plano texas to spend i do that everytime i go down there...im close with my family down there so its exciting when i visit...

its a well worth trip overall =)!!..beside the fact i have to look out for my car..it did got broken into 4 times already down there ..

 

Anyways...

I found some old picture ish...So here ya go...





Beside this one..it was last month before it got cold in texas

 

Replace tint whenever it gets purple. I guess it just depends on quality of tint, but i never know how long those usually lasts.

I got mines done for 100 so that's a hell of a deal. Pretty good quality tint too. 3 years now and still looking like how it was first put on.

Bring those side skirts whenever you come down