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IS350 Recent Tint Job
Halo effect is normal on front windshield when they're tinted. It's my No1 complaint about windshield installs. -
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IS350 Recent Tint Job
Run your thumb nail across it inside and out -
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Need help matching rear windows
I have a 2020 Subaru Forester Sport. A tint shop read the rear windows factory privacy film at 27.5%. I want to match this for the front windows, but the options I'm told are 20%, 22.5% or 35%. Given the light coming in from the windshield, I was told 22.5% would be the closest. Would you agree? 35% would be ceramic and they said looks darker than a non-ceramic 35%. -
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Sorry about the down time
@Mdog glad to see you’re here. Hope all is well -
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Scratches After Tinting
Okay, last response from me: Having worked side by side with a technician for seven years providing patterns for the library of one program out there, I would say someone scanned the pattern they received, leaving all cut edges and corners as they were OR the film was hand cut like a pattern maker has to do for a plotter library or a tinter not using a plotter. A good technician will clean up provided pattern cuts to the point of smooth rounded edges and they also smooth out long linear lines using the software like an artist to provide clean look around the entire pattern edge. In the process of cleaning up edges, the view is a pixelated (dotted) pattern edge that the technician shifts to or fro in their effort to provide a clean cut pattern that fits over and into the solid ceramic black border of auto glass. The film should not be cut short landing the film edge in the dotted transition area or the viewing area of the glass. A plotter will cut film similar to what you see when a house structure is built by 3D printer; no dips and valleys on long linear edges and no pointed corners UNLESS they were built into the design by the draftsman. Namaste -
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Scratches After Tinting
I was able to take these at home tonight as well. From what I’ve read, there shouldn’t be wavy lines or jagged edges when a plotter is used. Would it be worth taking this to the owner to argue that a plotter was used? -
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Scratches After Tinting
That you for all your responses on this. I reached out to the owner via text to ask him about being the vehicle back by to have it looked at. He was adamant that nothing was hand cut and told me he wasn’t sure what else I wanted him to do. I asked him how that would explain the strip that ended up on the exterior of the moonroof and he responded by saying “probably from where we weeded the pattern out.” I asked him what that involved and the text wasn’t deliverable (aka he blocked my phone number). I attached some photos that I was able to capture. The camera fails to capture it, but the lines are continuous and not just those sections.
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