Re: Window tint issues

["therealdmcvegas" <DMCVegas@xxxx>]

I've seen the exact same thing on DeLorean's too, and it does look 
odd when all the glass but the rear has been tinted. The other thing 
too (and I don't know if this happens on other peoples' cars) is the 
glare from the light off the rear facia lip. That birght glare from 
the back, when all other glass is dark can be pretty distracing for 
your eyes to have to refocus I would imagine.

I've seen some cars where the top of the windshield is tinted to stop 
sun glare. But rather than being a stripe, it's smoked to it fades to 
clear. What if you were to do this on the rear glass? But instead of 
being from the top down, you could go from the center out. The center 
would be the same darkness as all other glass, but the ends would be 
clear. To hide this, you could probably transition the tint from dark 
to clear in the "blind spot" areas of the rear glass. It would be 
less of a distraction to you, because all angles would appear to have 
the same color. And when looking from behind thru the louvers, the 
glass would appear tinted the same. And of course when you looked 
thru the quarter panel glass, their tinting would hide the clear 
outer portions of the glass looking into the passenger compartment. 
And when you had the lourvers up, it would give a nicer appearance 
for the rear glass.

I know that this was probably a post that should have gone directly 
to Walt, but I'm also curious if anyone else here knows if it could 
be done. If yes, I may then consider a window tint for my own car. 
This is the very reason I never thought about one...

-Robert
vin 6585



--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxx> wrote:
> I'm going to have my windows re-tinted and would like some opinions 
on the
> best way to handle the rear window & quarter panels. The previous 
owner
> tinted the doors & the quarter panels, but didn't tint the rear 
window. I
> would like to tint at least part of the rear window, but I don't 
want to
> obstruct my view by looking through two tinted windows
<SNIP>
>My original idea was to tint only
> a center section of the rear window so that when looking through 
any of the
> quarter panel glass from the driver's seat, then I would be looking 
around
> the tinted area on the rear window. But something tells me this 
might look
> tacky.
> 
> Walt Tampa, FL