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Old 11-20-03, 08:30 AM
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I want to get tint on my silver GS and I was wondering if anyone can post pics of their GS tinted... I am trying to figure out if I want the 'traditional tint' or the silvery looking one... Also what % should I go with?


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here is our car
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what percentage is that? do you have a hard time parking at night? the first GS I test drove was tinted and I had a hard time seeing through it at night...
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Here is my car with 5% in the rear and 30% all the rest.
No problems parking at night.








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ours is 13% on all 5 windows. yea, its kinda dark at nite...but its nice during the day....u can make ugly faces at ppl as you drive by and they cant see a thing! lol
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Here is mine with 35% "silver" tint. Sorry it is a crappy picture, from a hazy/rainy day.
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I perfer the more 'black' looking tint on the GS, as it unifies the profile view, and makes the side glass appear as one piece.

The 'greyer' films provide more contrast and accentuate the dark black window trim- looks a bit more 'chopped-up' to me.
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SoCal I see your point. I went back and forth between black and platinum. I went with the platinum to be slightly different since at that time I was one of three cars with it around here. I think If I would have went any darker it would have been bad. In the sun it almost looks black, side views show the silver look. No one has really noticed it much around here. Most think it is factory like the RX tint.

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Another picture, I can not figure out why they are so grainy? They have never been before??
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Originally posted by cyberseano
Here is my car with 5% in the rear and 30% all the rest.
No problems parking at night.







not meaning to hijack this thread, but what spoiler is that?
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cyberseano, hey, very very nice car! Do you have any pics of the front of your car?


For those of you guys with 5% 13% 20% 30% etc. what's the legal percentage in your state? In Maryland it's 35% and the law is pretty strict on it.
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No problem guys.

In my sig it says my mods. Also a link to my clublexus gallery with more pics of my car

The spoiler is the Lexus SportDesign Lip Spoiler.

OR http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/441478
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Here is mine. It has green tint on it (Think it only looks good on a green car) But if your car is silver it will give you an idea how it can look same color all the way. It is not really dark, but I dont want to get any tickets here in California, the I hate tint capitol of the world.
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