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A word of advise on tint

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Old 05-12-04 | 05:55 PM
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Default A word of advise on tint

I made an expensive mistake when I decided to tint my 99 GS400. There was no tint on the glass but the glass had a slight green hue to it. Well, I thought I had done my homework and got the "best" tint, fully metalized HP quantum solarguard tint. 35% on front windows, 14% on all others. Well, after I got it back my windows had a green reflection, which I think looked AWFUL. I complained about the look and said I wouldn't have gotten this tint if I knew my windows were gonna look so green.

I ended up paying another $100 to have the HP Charcoal tint, (is metalized, but has dye in it as well) 20% on all windows and MAN, does it look 100% better! It was an expensive mistake but now I couldn't be happier with the tint. Just in case you do decide to go with fully metalized tint, make sure your windows don't have a green hue or you will not be happy after!

If someone want to help me figure out how to resize my pics so that I can finally post some I would LOVE it!

-Kendra
'99 diamond white GS400, 20% tint, chrome grill - stock chrome 17" wheels (no money to do more yet!)
Old 05-12-04 | 07:13 PM
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The same happened to my mom's GS....but not green...it was a yellow hue...due to the Lexus factory UV protection manufactured into the glass.

My brother bought her the tint and chose a mirror-like silver metallic tint.....when it was done.....the tints are kinda yellowish.....which didnt match her Millenium Silver car.

As for resizing your photos....do you have Photoshop? Fireworks? There is a "Save for the Web" feature that will lower the file size.

Or you can post you pic to the CL Gallery (no size limit) and then link your thread to it.

Pete
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