To Tint or not to Tint?

[littleboyblues]

What do you guys suggest?

I have no complaints with no tint and never seen a car where i was like...they could really use a tint. However i have seen cars where i was like...they really should NOT have gotten that tint because for some reason it just looks bad. Im talking e30 here not just any random car.

So why am i asking..? Well i would like to get one because i dont really want people looking in my car plus i just like being in a car with tinted windows...not sure why, i just do. I have noticed that light tint of like 50 or less looks good. Any suggestions on a %? Blue as opposed to black...silver? I know everyone has their own opinion on what looks good but...throw ideas around and one may find that some people have really good taste:)

I dont know much about tinting and was wondering if any of you guys would know anything about it.

Thanks in advance. Hope this goes somewhere...just on food for thought

[littleboyblues]

pic?

[YetiX]

I've got one step lighter than limo tint in the rear and 35% on the front two. Black tint. Seems just about perfect to me.

[monko141]

35% all the way around.

To bad this site won't let my pics upload.

[1991 E30 M42]

no tint

[YetiX]

My tint looks a lot darker in my sig than in real life.  This still makes it look darker than it is but you get the idea:

[littleboyblues]

Wasnt sure if it'd work on a white car but that looks good! I think 35% is the legal limit for me so thats what i'd look like cause i have a white car too.

[e30boarder]

I have tint on my white e30. It came with the car when i bought it. It was pretty much old and purple when i bought the car. Once I repaint it, ill put some actual black tint in the windows. It should look a lot better. I think tinted windows are really nice to have, but if its too dark it can be a PITA to drive at night. But i never really had that problem in my beamer... just my truck.

[VegasKyle]

I'd like to see some more pictures in this thread.  I have about 7-8 months before I have to get my car tinted.  I don't want to go super dark, the 35% on the front of Yeti's car looks good.

[longtallsally]

Mine when I bought it and how it is now.  Crappy pics, but hopefully you get the idea...





For reference, here is my last E30 (yes I kick myself every day for selling it).  It had limo in the back 3 windows.  A bit much and I think it looks better to not be so dark, but it really did a good job of keeping the car cooler and preserved the interior exceptionally well.  I've got a couple better pics of it in direct sunlight, but I can't find them in my smugmug or photobucket accounts.  Hopefully this will give you the idea.

[YetiX]

Nice parking job. :p

[longtallsally]

Nice parking job. :p

I'd just pushed it out of the garage after finishing putting it back together from this:



It sat for close to 6 months after my last knee surgery since I couldn't walk let alone work on a car.  I had just finished doing a new clutch, aluminum flywheel, valve adjust, radiator, timing belt, water pump, tensioner, brake rotors, pads, fluid, and a couple other things.  It had a dead battery and I pushed it out to that spot.

As a matter of fact, I put the tranny in by myself, in that garage, with my leg in a hip to toe immobilizing brace to finish the clutch job.  To make a long story short, I was obviously planning on keeping the car for a long time.  Then my girlfriend left me.  Then I didn't want the car any longer and bought my first GS.

Now you know how I started down the ADV path and a little Sally history.  At least I met the right girl through it all.