Thread: Window tinting - are my expectations too high?

Originally Posted by AndyG

I Andrew,



Thanks for that info.



Price to tint your vehicle in 3M Scotchtint including the Alpine Windows & Windscreen strip is $495. Normally we do not tint sunroof’s due to the risk with the glass breaking.



Kind Regards,



Emily Fleming



Solar Style Window Tinting

111a Cullen Ave West

Eagle Farm QLD 4009

Ph: 3630 1121

Fax: 3630 1128

Mob: 0410 111 657

Brisbane Window Tinting - Solar Style Window Tinting



Apparently they do the European Exotica for Dealers, so the Defender will fit in well.

Does anyone recommend a window tint company in Sydney to tint a 110. Including alpine window?

A bit of an update on this saga.

I finally got the car into the panel shop and they appear to have polished the scratch out of the door pillar, rather than respray. There are still a couple of faint traces of the scratch in the paint, which I can see because I know it was there, but no-one else would ever notice, so I'm happy enough with that.

However, having now let the tint fully cure and having lived with the car for a few weeks, including finally opening the windows, I've started finding scratches on numerous panes of glass throughout the car. Some I can feel with my fingernails, others I can't, so I'm not sure which scratches are in the tint film and which ones are in the glass. The worst are on the driver's door window at about shoulder height, definitely on the inside of the glass, but I think under the tint film. There are also a couple on the rear right-hand passenger window and long scratches along the tops of both left-hand side door windows, where they were hidden by the door frames. I can at least feel those, so hopefully they're in the film. The tint on the top edges of all the roll up windows are ragged, whereas they were imperceptible in my previous car. There also appear to be some scratches in the left-hand alpine window.

Bearing in mind my car was only a couple of weeks old when this tint job was done and is now approximately four months old, do you think I'd be unreasonable in writing back to these guys and asking that they pay for the replacement of damaged glass? I could have a pretty hard time proving that they caused them, but the condition of my car speaks for itself. I'm still waiting on accessories and an underseal, so it hasn't even been off road yet. I probably won't know how many panes of glass are actually damaged until I get someone to remove the tint, but it's so amateurish that a more competent professional might vouch for me.