I'm tinting my R tomorrow morning and when I called the guy, he said that those little black dots Integras have on the hatch window show up and are noticable.

From those who have tinted their R's, how noticable is it? Does it look bad?

FYI: I'm thinking of tinting with a 35% grade, which I believe is one shade away from the lightest.

Jason

 

Ive had one Integra with tint cut off where the dots start. One Integra with tint covering the entire hatch.

I think it looks much better covering the entire hatch. *But*, how good it will look basically depends on how good the installer is.

35% = (and legal in most states)

 

hmmm i never looked how they got around that

 

Mine stop at the dots... If you continue into the dots in time it will start to peel quickly from the dots, cause the dots will leave air space between the glass and tint.

 

Get a black sticker put across the dots befor the tint goes on. Wish I had done that on mine, you can really notice the shitty quality of the tint where the dots are.

 

stop at the dots. They are paint dots and tint will not stick due to paint height.

 

2 years now. Still looks as good as the day it was put on (and better than stopping at the dots). Again, its all about the install.

 

fyi: it's called dot matrix

 

Yup...Mine go the whole way...never had any problem....its all about the skills of the installer.

 

FYI, no it isn't. THey are just referred to as "paint dots". I worked INTIMATELY with glass for 2 years and the word matrix never came up.

 

And what are those "paint dots" for exactly?

 

Asthetics . . . dictated by the car manufacturers. They do provide a small bit of a shade band but the front shade band is more functional than the rear.

 

i have it up to the top. the dots were quite noticeable.

so i got a vinyl banner put on.

before it was all white and stuff.



btw, the garage isn't mine so laugh at the tennis *****.

 

wasnt that the name of a type of printer back in the day?

 

 

on my other teg i had like 38% tint all around and usually the tint wont stick to the dots, so he cut it off right where they start . . . . it actually looked really good and blended justright.

 

trey... what exactly do j00 mean by "intimately"????

 

hehe, well we broke up so I don't want to t alk about it

I did work for the glass manufacturer for Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, the Hummer for GM and some others.

 

I got 30% tint all around my car and on the dot matrix part the guy who installed it told me to bring my car back after the tint had fully tried and he put a piece of tape right whre the tint stopped and the dot matrix began and just painted the inside black, fromt he outside it looks badass.

 

I used high heat BBQ grill paint in flat black... looks great and matches the outer rim color of the glass.

 

I already have the tint over the dots. should i put a vinyl black sticker over the tint, or should the tint be removed then put the sticker on.

tia

 

When I first glanced at the subject, I misread it and thought this was directed to the female members of this board.

 

Just buy some more of the 'dots' and put them on..

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...9.jpg.orig.jpg

COPY AND PASTE

Willis

 

will and his bling blang AUS-DM type r tint

 

Cars are lookin sweet guys!