"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
03/03/2020 at 15:05 • Filed to: None
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"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
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Saw a original Jeep Liberty this morning with very purple rear windows . Got me feeling slightly nostalgic for old-school bad tint jobs.
RPM esq.
> Boxer_4
03/03/2020 at 15:12 |
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One of the things that made me happy about seeing my old FJ80 on the road a while back was that the new owner had bothered to scrape off the shitty tint job on the back windows. Why didn’t I think of that?
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Boxer_4
03/03/2020 at 15:37 |
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I always liked the gold tint Lexus and Toyota used to use, and of course the mirror tint on the original RX was
PartyPooper2012
> Boxer_4
03/03/2020 at 17:33 |
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I concur. I saw that pic and instantly wanted to slap some purple tint on my car windows
Urambo Tauro
> Boxer_4
03/03/2020 at 19:40 |
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Having flashbacks to the day I bought my ’ 96 Thu nderbird... As soon as I got home, the first thing I did was scrape the hazy tint reside from t he rear window. Had to be careful around the defroster lines, but the end result was worth it. Good riddance!
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Boxer_4
03/03/2020 at 20:32 |
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What was it about those tint jobs that caused them to go so bad?
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Boxer_4
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
03/03/2020 at 20:52 |
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A lot of the cheaper window tints are dyed film. Yellow, blue, and red dyes are used in combination to achieve the desired darkness level. Unfortunately, those dyes typically aren’t colorfast, and fade over time with UV light exposure. As I understand it, t he yellow dye tends to fade the fastest, leaving the red and blue dyes in combination.
More expensive window tints are metalized film which is not susceptible to UV light degradation , at least not to nearly the same level.