Hey guys, Just wanted to throw up some quick pics of my tint job on the mini I had done Friday. Kentucky allows 5% on the rear window and 10% on the sides. I went with 15% all the way around. Helps the interior and helps the AC as well. I've done some tinting before, but for $75 I can let the pros do it much quicker than me and get a lifetime warranty. op: One side note - I obviously had to remove the headrests in order to tint the rear. My headrests are mounted with a bolt at the top and two phillips screws at the bottom. I fooled with the bottom screws for a few minutes and could not budge any of them at all. I took a 3/8" butterfly impact with a #3 phillips bit and made short work of them! All 4 lower screws had some kind of blue thread locker on them - don't know why, but they were TIGHT!. Crazy it took an air tool to remove the headrests. A wire wheel and a drop of anti-sieze later, the bolts were ready to go back in.
Agree the tint looks good....I found my headrest screws were a bitch as well...like you I used an impact driver to get em off....you'd think they were structural they are so solidly attached
Funny that we all seem to be doing the same jobs, at one time or another. I broke one "hardened" driver trying to get the 4point mouning apart on my Suzuki. Then I used one of those "hammer-punch" type drivers to get the backing screew-head bolts out of the head rests. I wanted to not only move the head rest UP, so that it would line up with my head and not my neck, but I also wanted to put speakers inside of them... but that's for another thread..
I wish our tint laws down here allowed for ours to be that dark. Legal limit here is 28%, which might as well be clear. Having dark windows like myself makes it a bit of a pain to get an inspection sticker.
Wow! 35%? You might as well not even have it on there huh? I consider myself pretty lucky anyway. They only ones here that can enforce the tint law are MS highway patrol. They stick to the highway and interstate, so i stick to the back roads. As long as i don't lose my source for an inspection sticker, i'm good to go.
Yeah... I broke this law once. well... make that twice... It cost twice as much to have tint removed than to have it put on. As a matter of fact a few months ago I got stopped and questioned about the tint on my Tahoe. I kindly responded with "No, I've never had any problems in the past. Its the smoked glass that comes from the factory". My front windows aren't even tinted! Sheesh.
