Tints recommendations?

edli83 · Post by **edli83** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:36 pm

Anyone recommend a good company/person that does tints in the london area for a 3dr hatch?

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:41 pm

I'd recommend you go for an hour drive or so outside london to get your tints. I've been put of slightly (so will get it done later) as average price I've been quoted is about Â£250.
You can get cheaper but its light smoke tint which is nothing really.

cyhliu · Post by **cyhliu** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:42 pm

Ha ha ha, what with all this interest in tinting all of a sudden, I've seen and replied to three I think in the past few days.

I got mine done in London, there is a forum member, call Tinter who does group visits/buys in London, the one I went to was at Whitechapel/Algate and charges Â£150 for a three door, hes' done quite a few members on here and everyone has only good things to say. Send him a pm...be patient though as I don't think he always checks his pms.

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:56 pm

There is a decent place near Wood Green in North London charges Â£160

edli83 · Post by **edli83** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:01 pm

pm sent
cyhliu and Giorgio do you know what brand tint film these guys use?

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:57 pm

edli83 wrote:pm sent
cyhliu and Giorgio do you know what brand tint film these guys use?

no sorry, they got light smoke, mid smoke, dark smoke and limo black. They take the door cards off and put it on properly. Takes about 3 hours but if there is a sligth imperfection they take the whole thing off and start again.

cyhliu · Post by **cyhliu** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:50 pm

Sorry again, I'm not sure what brand they use but apparently good quality tints are ones where you don't notice that they are tinted when sat inside the car...the one Tinter used must be pretty damn good as my friend asked if I ever got round to tinting them...I said yes...she didn't even notice and thought that as they were tinted she could then pull funny faces out of the windows and other drivers wouldn't notice...I so could have been sooooo evil! ha ha ha!

Tinters, good, he doesn't need to remove the door cards = less damage I guess and also I've had my rear replaced once already as there was a slight imperfection also...he guarantees his work for a year...

laura_fairy_22 · Post by **laura_fairy_22** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:05 pm

If you dont mind a little bit of a drive to down my way (portsmouth, Hampshire) theres a guy that does tinting... guarenteed for the rest of his life. If you get any problems you can just take it back and he'll re-do it for free.
And very competitive... my bf used to have a 306, and it cost Â£130 for 5 windows... Does a very good job of it... and is confindent of it, hence the lifetime guarentee!

edli83 · Post by **edli83** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 12:18 pm

emailed the tinter guy, but he says that he dont come down very often any more

laura_fairy_22 thats a good price, its just that its pretty expensive to travel that far, seeing as its gonna cost me like 50Â£ petrol to get there and bak it'll just work out to be london price.

Giorgio wheres this place in Wood Green? - how decent is it, dont wana end up with bubbly tints, nasty!

arghhhhh i neeed tints!!!