when you guys got your cars tinted did the top part of the back look wierd because of the dots??

 

mine doesnt. but the guy doing the tint had to spend extra time on the dot matrix in the back window to make it look right.. most places wont do it, so the back window comes out looking like ****.. some people will tell you, you cant tint that part of the window at all..

 

i left mine off. i think it looks fine. i never even notice anymore

 

he just put black tape that covered the dot matrix.

 

Yeah, mine looks funny from the outside, but inside its fine. You have to spend a lot of time heating it and pressing it down between every dot to get a nice uniform look, which no-one wants to do. I have seen people just stop the tint below the dots, which looks much worse to me. I don't mind.

 

My tint guy glued it. Came out like the dots arent even there!

 

mine just tinted below the dots and ran a dark tape like tint on the out side i think it looks good

 

This is the "proper" way to do it, from what I've read on the net.

 

mine kinda looks shitty from the outside but from the inside it looks fine...on my old cavy i just didnt tint the dot matrix and IMO it looked horrible and let in too much light

 

ya mine looks sorta shitty now... but eh

 

i didnt tint my back window at all. no one has ever noticed.

 

Most places won't do it because the tint has a tendency not to stick to the dots. However, the window tint that me and my shop use puts a piece of black vinyl on the inside of the car to mesh in with the tint. It looks like it is tinted and it sticks to the dots.

 

ya i thought about that but the dot matrix is pretty thick and im not sure if i want to lose that much vision from the back

 

Trust me, having the vinyl put over the dots is not going ot hurt your visibility at all. It made absolutely no difference to me.

 

Weak.

Gotta tint all of em.

Yeah, you can't see anythign useful out of the top of the window anyway. Usually you are only looking from about where the spoiler is down.

 

agreed

 

^Yes, I have a strip of vinyl over mine, and it looks good, and doesnt reduce visiblity whatsoever.

 

any pics of the vinyl?

 

i wish i could find someone in my area that could do a nice job with good tint!

 

yeah mine's all screwy. i want to put a big piece of black vinyl up there to cover it.

 

whomever says that the vinyl goes on the inside is a moron. vinyl on the inside of a window over a dot matrix will look the same as tint over a dot matrix, just not transparent. the reason dot matrix tint looks like crap is because the dots are raised just enough off the glass to create a small gap around the edges. some people sand them down with emery cloth, which helps a lot.

from the outside


from the inside

 

Mine looked really bad so I bought some vinyl visor strip and put it over it.

 

you can vinyl on the inside, it's not like you will see the dots anyway
the whole point of the vinyl is to cover the dots so there isn't a gap between the tint and the dot matrix

i don't think I've seen vinyl on the outside of a window, it looks cheap, and you have to be careful in winter time when you scrape ice off

 

Quoted for truth. I also have the vinyl strip on the inside of the window and it looks great. You cant even tell the dot matrix is there.

 

yea mine look a lil weird but it seems to be getting better