Problem with re-tint

[Guest Shawnz]

I bought a new '06 Mercury Montego and the dealer tinted the windows.

I noticed small air bubbles in all of the windows at delivery and we agreed to wait a bit and see if they clear up. Two months later, they are still there, so they did a re-tint of all of the glass.

I wasn't terribly suprised to find the same bubbles in all of the windows again. They did a better job this time but I noticed dirt / dust under the tint on the driver and passenger's windows and I had stange prisimatic rainbows appearing on the rear window that you can only see on the rear window (see the attached pics).

I took the car back again yesterday ands they re-tinted the driver & passenger window again as well as re-doing the back window.

There is still crap on the side windows that I complained about before, and the rainbows are still there on the back window.

They've re-done it twice now. I'm going to give the side wndows some tiem to see if they clear up. What's going on with my rear glass? Are they just not cleaning it up good? The rainbow effects seem to be in the exact same spots as last time.

[Guest Shawnz]

hmm - the pics didn't attach. Here they are:

Shawn

[Guest TintsOvOz]

Welcome

I would take it to another shop, if they new , it would have been done right the first time, redos are harder than ya first time

Oz..........

[Devil with bad attitude]

That particular tinter has met his plimsol line and he ain't going to get any better before he drowns in a sea of tears.

devil

[Guest willie]

wow, sorry for the bad experience and welcome to the board

Have you asked the shop for an explanation?

[Guest tintgod]

looks like a bad case of ghosting to me...but hard to tell

[Guest Shawnz]

Thanks for the comments. They have offered no explination for any of it. The dealer just acts as a proxy to an unknown tint shop.

I should add that the 'effects' in the rear window are all but invisible. Light has to hit the window 'just right' for you to see them. It's REALLY hard to see in the daytime, easier to reproduce as night. If I hold a shop light at roughtly 90? to my viewing angle, they pop right up.

Now you may be asking how I noticed the problem - lol. I first noticed it while pumping gas at night. Once I figured out how to see it, I took pictures. I didn't know how else to explain it to the dealer / tinter.

I'm concidering asking the dealer to just have the tinter remove the tint all together. Would there be any advantange to this or would it just make it that much harder to correct for the next guy?

[Guest VOLTRON]

that decision is up to you weather or not to have the dealer remove the tint. If you keep the tint on there and take it to a tintshop they are going to charge you to take the stuff off. So if you plan on getting it redone by someone else then have the dealer take the film off because whoever you take it to will charge you for removal. It wouldnt make it harder on the next guy, just let him know what happened and that there was film on the windows before so he know to clean thoroughly.

[Guest imfear44]

that decision is up to you weather or not to have the dealer remove the tint. If you keep the tint on there and take it to a tintshop they are going to charge you to take the stuff off. So if you plan on getting it redone by someone else then have the dealer take the film off because whoever you take it to will charge you for removal. It wouldnt make it harder on the next guy, just let him know what happened and that there was film on the windows before so he know to clean thoroughly.

[*]362551

It just looks like the dealer has a dirty shop. But alot of times they are all about quantity then quality.

[Guest vclimber]

Sorry about the bad experience. If the dealer is going to accomadate you in any way, he will probably want his tint guy to handle all of the R&R because then he can probably get it redone for free if he pumps a lot of business through the tinter's shop. -Imo, I would definitely take it to another reputable shop and have them do the entire R&R. Don't let a h@ck touch his work more than once...

So if you take it somewhere else, I doubt the dealer will cover. You'll have to use your skills to get compensated, and if it was me, I would.