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Old 08-08-2010, 11:43 PM   #11 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by mcrews View Post
There are so many disadvantages to film, I'll wait for actual A-B-A testing before deciding.

Wow, what could "so many" possibly be??
I have been having my cars tinted for 20 yrs....probably 8 cars .......and never had a problem.
Backing up a steep driveway in pitch black conditions, for one. Reduced visibility at night, more negative attention from the cops, a film that's easy to scratch and hard to repair. Every aftermarket tint job I've seen has eventually developed bubbles, usually after the tint shop is gone and buried. I've removed tint from two cars because of bubbling, and it was a nightmare of solvent and razor blades. On one car, the tint came off in little shards.

And still no empirical proof that it reduces the temperature of the car. (A-B-A, or at least two otherwise identical cars sitting side-by-side; no "it feels cooler.")

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