Tinting a Scirocco - Big PIA - Rant

[jason@scirocco.org (16V Jason)]

I had my tint done in 1997 -- and it's holding up great to this day.

The rear 1/4 windows were taken out for a perfect job.  And they were a 
little too optimistic with the X-Acto knife on the bottom rubber seal of 
the front 1/4s, but so far I'm the only one who's ever noticed.

I was told that the rear window essentially has to be done in two pieces to 
avoid bubbling.  The first time they did mine, they stopped the tint at the 
parkbench, and then painted the rest black.  I yelled at them about it and 
had an appointment 2 weeks later for them to fix it.  But I backed up into 
a 7-year old pulling into my driveway... so I didn't wait the 2 weeks.

I have 20% on top, and 35% below the spoiler.  The seam is invisible 
because it occurs in the shadow of the spoiler.  It's a perfect setup 
because (a) you can't see the difference between top and bottom from 
outside at all, and inside you can't tell, (b) you don't get blinded by 
people behind you because of the 20%, but you can back up and see out 
nicely by looking through the 35% section.

YMMV
Jason



At 10:56 AM 1/23/2002, Dan S wrote:
>the nice guy (read- incompitant moron) who tinted my Roc WOULD NOT tint the
>whole back window, he stopped at the park bench. And with the two replaced
>vent windows, then my fine job of breaking the driver's main window, I have
>a hodge-podge of different colors all over the place......that nicely tinted
>spare rear hatch is starting to look more and more appealing..... might as
>well go for a different color on every window!
>
>Dan
>Tam-pa, FL
>'81 Rabbit Sportruck
>'87 16v Scirocco
>'00 Jetta
>http://home.earthlink.net/~danws69/index.html
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Eric L Ellis
>Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:36
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Tinting a Scirocco - Big PIA - Rant
>
>
>Big thumbs up here.  I took the front quarter windows out when the red
>car was tinted cause I didn't want to have those annoying cracks of light
>to either side of my field of view.  Then the stupid asses did the rear
>quarter glass in two pieces leaving a line down the middle.  Friggin
>morons.
>
>Now you can get a $1200.00 fine in my fair city of Assville, NC for tint
>that's too dark.  I yanked it off the hatch and roll down windows to "be
>in the process of compliance", only to see kids cruise the strip with 5%
>doubled up, week after week, getting away with it...little bastards.  I'm
>moving to S.C.!
>
>Eric
>"Good, bad...I'm the guy with the gun"
>http://www.geocities.com/blitzkrieg16v
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>
>On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:25:35 -0500 "Veedub" <myjunkbox@rogers.com>
>writes:
> > Here's how I've done tint on one before.  Remove the hatch & rear 1/4
> > glass.
> > (about a 10 minute job), put the tint right past the edge of the
> > glass and
> > trim.  Then reinstall the window seals (they will then cover the
> > tint) and
> > put the window back in.   Takes about an extra 1/2 hour but well
> > worth it.
> > With the glass out, just about anyone can do a "professional" tint
> > job.
> >
> > Ja
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