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Window Tint Jackass
Hi,
I don't know what came over my girlfriend, but a few days ago she decided to take her extremely nice BMW to a hole-in-the-wall shop to have the windows tinted. She didn't tell me until the day of the appointment. The guy charged like $100, which was my first clue that it wasn't going to go well. So she brings the car home, and sure enough, it's probably the worst tint job I've ever seen. Really classy. The main problem with it is that the retard tried (and failed) to apply the tint over that little "dot matrix" area around the edges of the windows. It didn't take. It's hard to even describe what it looks like... All around the edges of the windows, it basically looks like it's peeling off. I told her plain and simple -- take it back and tell him to fix it. He claims to have used 3M tint, but that's all I know. I don't know if there are different kinds of 3M tint, or whatever, but supposedly this stuff has a lifetime warranty. So, I go with her to this shop, and the chief douchebag comes out and looks at the windows. I can immediately tell that he has zero time to deal with us. It's not like we're PAYING CUSTOMERS or anything, so I can understand that he has way better things to do with his time, like, probably, surfing the web in his office, googling "how to apply window tint so that it doesn't look like a six year old did it." But, I went out of my way to be nice to the guy and explain the situation and ask him to help. He told me, "Yeah, the problem is those little dots. There's really nothing that can be done. That's just the way it goes." Needless to say, I'm going to burn his store down. But in the meantime, does anyone know how to fix something like this? Would applying heat and manually pressing it down around the dots help? Or is my only option to just go to someone competent and have it completely redone? I'd really rather not spend another $300+ on top of the $100 she already paid this clown. Thanks in advance. |
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Window Tint Jackass
none wrote:
> is my only option to just go to someone competent and have it > completely redone? I'd really rather not spend another $300+ on top > of the $100 she already paid this clown. I'll take the lack of responses to indicate that this is my only option. I read what I could find on the subject, and apparently those little dots are always an issue, but not a problem for anyone who has half a clue. Most tinters either sand them down or lay a strip of vynil over them before applying the tint. |
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Window Tint Jackass
On Jul 2, 2:56*pm, none > wrote:
> none wrote: > > is my only option to just go to someone competent and have it > > completely redone? *I'd really rather not spend another $300+ on top > > of the $100 she already paid this clown. > > I'll take the lack of responses to indicate that this is my only option. *I > read what I could find on the subject, and apparently those little dots are > always an issue, but not a problem for anyone who has half a clue. *Most > tinters either sand them down or lay a strip of vynil over them before > applying the tint. So did you take it a more competent shop? Did they repair it or put new tints all over again? |
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Window Tint Jackass
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:43:09 -0700 (PDT), Zee >
wrote: >On Jul 2, 2:56*pm, none > wrote: >> none wrote: >> > is my only option to just go to someone competent and have it >> > completely redone? *I'd really rather not spend another $300+ on top >> > of the $100 she already paid this clown. >> >> I'll take the lack of responses to indicate that this is my only option. *I >> read what I could find on the subject, and apparently those little dots are >> always an issue, but not a problem for anyone who has half a clue. *Most >> tinters either sand them down or lay a strip of vynil over them before >> applying the tint. > >So did you take it a more competent shop? Did they repair it or put >new tints all over again? Any recent updates to this???? |
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