window tint or no tint?

Depends on the car and what you like.

I tend to tint all our cars. Back in the early days I would go the darker the better. I remember even having a car that had a layer of limo on the inside and one on the outside! Crazy youth. That was on a Camaro that they used to sell a plastic pop in for the back window to tint it. Just sort of sprung in place. Car looked great! BUT at night forget about seeing anything. Rear lights off other cars were just dim spots.

I guess with age comes changes in taste. Now I like to use whatever the legal for front windows (is that what is called 35 percent??) all around the car. Whatever the lightest stuff is. I also tend not to go for the "smoke" colour, but rather I like using bronze tint. Like how it cuts the heat and glare, but makes everything look brighter if that makes any sense. Just my opinion and you know what they say about those.

Living in the sun belt can kill interiors, but more importantly to us now is the old skin cancer. My wife is very fair skinnned so tint beyond factory has always been a must for us.

One important point I thought I'd bring up is shop by reputation on the job and not price. Get somewhere that has been around a long while and has a good rep. Made the mistake of taking a car of ours to a place based on price. Bubbles everywhere. Okay, they hand you a paper saying that they will level off. Gave them the opportunity. Never did in some spots and when I took it back I got the biggest load of BS going. Came down to almost fists flying with me and the manager. I have to say that I'm the most even guy going so it takes a LOT to get me going that far. Crappy tint job still on the car and the business has renamed and moved. No suprise there.

Learned my lesson. If you are going to tint then look at length of in business, at that location, reputation, see thier work, do they do dealer cars (maybe does not mean a lot, but if the dealer has to take customer cars back due to tint it does not take them long to dump a tinter), quality of product, warranty, can they do the car or are they a template only shop (some places have a computer machine to cut tint for them and don't have older cars in the system and no experienced free hand cutters!!). Then when all said and done what is the price.

Off the soap box now and back to sleep.

Best of luck with it.

Cheers