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<blockquote data-quote="phantom240" data-source="post: 1807193" data-attributes="member: 562504"><p>If i would have had the money to leave it to the pros to tint my windows, i would have... but if youre like me and have a dark car with dark interior and an a/c thats on its last few ounces of r-12 and little money to spare, you CAN do it yourself. Im not saying my tint job looks spectacular... hell for the most part you can tell it was amateur. As long as you take your time to take off the interior panels and trim your tint properly, its not so bad. Of course that IS if youre working in a garage or someplace out of the wind. When i did my front windows, i would lay the tint on the outside with water and got bubbles out and started to trim. Not so bad. Then i had to take the clear protective layer off the back... that ****** cuz my windows on the doors are incredibly long... like 38 inches if i remember correctly. and whenever i would pull it off, the wind would pick up, causing it to adhere to itself and i tried to put it on and squeeze the bubbles out as best i could, and the ****ed creases wouldnt budge, so that piece was trash... now keep in mind my windows are slightly less than half a standard roll of film. Now as far as applying the film, i found in my experience that its easiest to do it with 2 friends... you sit inside the car with your rubber squeege (sp!?) wile one friend slowly pulls the backing off, and the other constantly speays your soapy water soulution to both the window and the back of the tint... this makes it much easier to manuver than just spraying the window alone... be sure to take off as many interior panels and your door panels when you do this, so you can tuck the tint under those panels... this is especially important on the door windows, so that when you roll the windows down the panel doesnt catch it.. on the rear window and any large curved window, ive found that its best to cut the tint as you need, then cut it in half across the window... smaller pieces are easier to work with. I used that technique on my rear hatch, and the pieces i cut in half are perfect, but the last piece which we left whole didnt turn out so well... but its not bad. The hardest part, which isnt really hard at all, is making the seams line up. The only advice i can give you there is to wait a little bit before trying to apply the next piece against that seam, you run the risk of pulling the existing tint as you work bubbles out of the new tint.</p><p></p><p>Now im no expert here and i know ill probably get a few flames, but thats cool. Its all about learning. I know not all my techniques are right, but thats how i did it, and im satisfied. As long as its not a show car, if youre satisfied with the tint, good job, you saved some cash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phantom240, post: 1807193, member: 562504"] If i would have had the money to leave it to the pros to tint my windows, i would have... but if youre like me and have a dark car with dark interior and an a/c thats on its last few ounces of r-12 and little money to spare, you CAN do it yourself. Im not saying my tint job looks spectacular... hell for the most part you can tell it was amateur. As long as you take your time to take off the interior panels and trim your tint properly, its not so bad. Of course that IS if youre working in a garage or someplace out of the wind. When i did my front windows, i would lay the tint on the outside with water and got bubbles out and started to trim. Not so bad. Then i had to take the clear protective layer off the back... that ****** cuz my windows on the doors are incredibly long... like 38 inches if i remember correctly. and whenever i would pull it off, the wind would pick up, causing it to adhere to itself and i tried to put it on and squeeze the bubbles out as best i could, and the ****ed creases wouldnt budge, so that piece was trash... now keep in mind my windows are slightly less than half a standard roll of film. Now as far as applying the film, i found in my experience that its easiest to do it with 2 friends... you sit inside the car with your rubber squeege (sp!?) wile one friend slowly pulls the backing off, and the other constantly speays your soapy water soulution to both the window and the back of the tint... this makes it much easier to manuver than just spraying the window alone... be sure to take off as many interior panels and your door panels when you do this, so you can tuck the tint under those panels... this is especially important on the door windows, so that when you roll the windows down the panel doesnt catch it.. on the rear window and any large curved window, ive found that its best to cut the tint as you need, then cut it in half across the window... smaller pieces are easier to work with. I used that technique on my rear hatch, and the pieces i cut in half are perfect, but the last piece which we left whole didnt turn out so well... but its not bad. The hardest part, which isnt really hard at all, is making the seams line up. The only advice i can give you there is to wait a little bit before trying to apply the next piece against that seam, you run the risk of pulling the existing tint as you work bubbles out of the new tint. Now im no expert here and i know ill probably get a few flames, but thats cool. Its all about learning. I know not all my techniques are right, but thats how i did it, and im satisfied. As long as its not a show car, if youre satisfied with the tint, good job, you saved some cash. [/QUOTE]
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