Reply With QuoteI can say that when I picked my deefa up from a Sydney dealer, bear in mind I'm a 5 odd hour drive from this dealer and had flown up to get the car. I had arranged to have the windows tinted by them. I specifically told them I wanted the alpine windows tinted, "No problem" I was told. Well when I arrived lo and behold, they weren't tinted. The BS excuse was because of the type of glass they were made of, yeah right.
Well I bought it home and spoke to one of my local car window specialists and had them tint them. They actually popped the windows out and tinted them, once dry replaced them and I had them run some mastic around the seal as it can be a water ingress point, all good.
On your other windows though, in my experience they can never get the tint hard up to a hard edge just due to the nature of cutting the tint up to the rubber seal, but it should be minimal.
I have had some horrific tint jobs done here by another mob, over 3 cars (he was the only one here at the time) every one had to have some of the tint re-done as it was scratched by his smoothing tool
The last straw with him was with a used 4 runner I had I wanted all of the windows tinted, they have a factory brown tint on the rear side windows. I asked if he could do these as I wanted the windows all the same grey colour, he told me he could, it would just be darker.
When I picked up the car I inspected it as usual. Well the clown did scratch these 2 side windows, not the tint but the actual glass where he had used a razor to scrape the glass to ensure it was clean. He told me because the glass was factory tinted, and curved, it was actually a softer type of glass. Well these were a mess, believe me. Well the upshot is he had to replace the 2 windows at a cost to him of about $800 and then I went elsewhere to have them tinted.
I have never had an issue getting the Alpine windows done.
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