What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Very interesting...time to break out my information card I got about the protective service.

Ed

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Sweet!

Great job Tim. And a little training for when you install the OEM LED Headlights!

Ed

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Where can I buy one of these?

 

I haven't installed one.

 

I’m leaning towards 5% on all 5 windows and then 50% on the windshield. Yeah 35% looks good but it’s sketchy at night. Even worse at night in the rain. At that point you are guessing what’s infront of you.

 

I would check with local municipal and state laws regarding tint.
Here in Ontario there are set limits to darkness.

 

It amazes me that OEMs can object to making changes that can only increase longevity rather than hurt it.

 

I usually go as dark as legally allowed. I don't get putting tint on the windshield though. Maybe I don't need to get it.

 

heat reflectivity.

 

Plausible... But I'm already having a hard enough time seeing traffic lights and overhead signage with the big sensor pod over the rearview mirror and the low roofline (I'm also tall). Everywhere else I'm all about tinting as much as legally allowed but that one is one mod I think I'll pass on, right up there with Pro Grille's and Raptor lights. Just not my thing.

 

same here...I need to do my driver and passenger side front doors, but would never do the windshield...

but there are things needed before the tinting as well...tonneau cover, new shoes, molle panels to quell the OCD/organizational thing....better fog lights...

 

There is one more reason as well....Ear cancer. The tint can stop the UV rays from causing ear cancer. Personally, I do not like heavily tinted windows either but when I heard that the left ear of older folks get ear cancer due to driving with the sun beating down on their left ear the tint doesn't seem that objectionable now to me.

 

I can vouch for this.

 

That's the door windows, not the windshield. The windshield already has a coating that blocks UV while the side and rear windows don't.

 

live in Phoenix for a couple summers, you'll get it. If nothing else, it helps with the UV rays coming through your windshield. The summer sun and heat can ruin anything in just under two years. Your dash stands no chance if you park outside regularly.

 

Possibly. I was thinking Russian hackers...

 

I drove to work in the morning East for nearly 16 years so I always had the top 4" tinted on every vehicle I owned. Now I drive West every morning so I don t need it.

 

Eh, I just use the visors and shades. That works too.

 

Blocks out more light and heat. Think about it, you tint all 5 windows but the front windshield will still be bringing in a lot of the light so people can still see inside your vehicle.