RedraifExtras's 1987 Pontiac Firebird on CarDomain

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WINDOW TINT
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Time for Tint:

I noticed my black tint was now in the early stages of turning purple back in 2000.
Why does old tint do this you ask?
The tint guy told me that in both paint and dyed window film, the yellow fades out first. This leaves you with more reds and blues, hence the purple. This also causes red cars to get darker red as they age.

I had to get the purple off right away. A matter of pride I guess. I had the door panels off any way. I was installing power windows, door locks, and poppers...

I was debating how dark to go this time. My eyes had been giving me more and more problems. I have severe migraines.

Then on the way back from work on day, I saw this white Honda Civic up on a trailer. It had red mirror tint. I knew right then what I wanted. I had been wearing red sunglasses lately. They seem to be the most comfortable for my eyes anyway.

I called everywhere the next day. 75% of the people thought I had hallucinated the whole thing. 24% said they knew of regular red tint being used in residential tinting, but they would have to buy too much to warrant getting it. They knew nothing of red “mirror” tint though.

I finally found one place (Oasis) that knew what I was talking about. They said it was a double layer of tint. The red goes on first and the silver mirror goes on behind it. They would do it, but getting the red was a problem. I was determined.

On the way to see my horse that weekend, I saw a red probe on the side of the street. The car had red tint.
I stopped. Sure enough it was red mirror tint. I went to the door and talked to the owner. He had just done it himself. He used to tint at Oasis. Small world He said he still had some red. He got the car the next weekend. $365.00 later, I had my tint. ($150.00 per layer and $65.00 to strip the old tint)

Only bad part was his buddy installed it and did not do that good of a job. There were a lot of errors and the guy would not call me back. The one I had asked to do the tint eventually gave me back ½ my $ for the obvious errors.

I love this stuff. Yes it is illegal, but with my migraines, it was necessary.

Some pics in different lighting to show what that mirror will do to the red.
Overcast...really pops out!

Bright sun directly behind...

Here the sun is behind some clouds, but you can see the clouds in the tint...

Here is an odd one with the sun low in the sky...actually looks black!

You can actually see thru it here with the sun directly above...

Here you can see thru it at the top, but its also reflective at the bottom. Aren't curved windows neat.
Sun high still in mid day...