Lets talk tint...
Burning Brakes
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From: Texas ->Colorado->Florida
I've been driving my 2025 RDX Advance since February without tint, but it's getting hot so it's time to revive this old thread.
My Infiniti Q50 had Llumar Stratos 30 all around. It looked great during the day, but turned out to be too dark at night for the auto dimming rear and side view mirrors to work properly. The other issue with Stratos is that it's a thick film and the window motors/regulators struggled with it. I shared this history with Gemini AI, and for the mirrors to work properly and for good nighttime visibility it recommended Llumar IRX 40 for the driver/passenger windows and IRX 70 for the rear and back windows.
Has anyone here tried this approach? How did it turn out?
My Infiniti Q50 had Llumar Stratos 30 all around. It looked great during the day, but turned out to be too dark at night for the auto dimming rear and side view mirrors to work properly. The other issue with Stratos is that it's a thick film and the window motors/regulators struggled with it. I shared this history with Gemini AI, and for the mirrors to work properly and for good nighttime visibility it recommended Llumar IRX 40 for the driver/passenger windows and IRX 70 for the rear and back windows.
Has anyone here tried this approach? How did it turn out?
I did not dint over the factory tint on the rear window, but think you solution to go to 70% over them would help with heat reduction (believe the factory tint is about 20% on the RDX rear windows). The two key heat areas for the RDX are the windshield and pano-sunroof. I am not a fan of tinting sunroofs as they absorb too much heat in the glass, rather I made a custom shield out of a windshield reflector - which is amazing at reducing the heat from the pano roof. Especially with the summers in Texas and Florida.
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