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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 12:41 PM
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I exaggerated, there's not only one place, there's like 2 or 3, but there still all over 200 bucks...too much money...the other places on the list are too far, and if I remember correctly, there were a few of those numbers that don't work. I've gone down this route before. I've already done google. Look at my first post. I thought I was asking a pretty simple question. Thanks to the people that answered my question though. I appreciate it.
If you want your car to look like a piece of shit mexi-job with nasty purple tint that has bubbles and is mis alligned, then by all means don't take the advice of those telling you to get it professionally done.
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 01:25 PM
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Purple tint FTMFW!!
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Bishop
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plus when you do it yourself it always bubbles and looks ghey
So how long did it take before, it started to bubble when you did it?
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:28 PM
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just fuckin pay to have it done right. It's gonna look like shit and you are gonna be like "wow I am a fucktard I shouldn't have been a cheap bitch and had it done properly"
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:32 PM
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yea...i'm the bitch but y'all are the ones getting touchy just because i'm asking a simple question. Could someone please lock this thread. It's pretty useless at this point.
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by civicburner
yea...i'm the bitch but y'all are the ones getting touchy just because i'm asking a simple question. Could someone please lock this thread. It's pretty useless at this point.
well I mean use your fuckin brain. If it was so easy and cheap and quality than places wouldn't do tinting anymore. they would have big signs out front that say "go buy that sweet shit on ebay"
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Civic2Scooby
well I mean use your fuckin brain. If it was so easy and cheap and quality than places wouldn't do tinting anymore. they would have big signs out front that say "go buy that sweet shit on ebay"
So how hard was it to tint your car when you did it?
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by civicburner
So how hard was it to tint your car when you did it?
a fuckin pain in the ass. You have to clean the windows with spray and a razor blade then size the sheet then get the sheet up without one spec of shit getting behind it. then you have to squeegie the shit out of it to get rid of all the bubbles...then use a heat gun to slowly dry out the water in the backing material and shrink the material a bit...then when it is set you go back and find the little bubbles you got from the material shrinking...so you take a razor and cut them like a blister and try to work them down. Then about a year later they turn purple and shitty.
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Civic2Scooby
a fuckin pain in the ass. You have to clean the windows with spray and a razor blade then size the sheet then get the sheet up without one spec of shit getting behind it. then you have to squeegie the shit out of it to get rid of all the bubbles...then use a heat gun to slowly dry out the water in the backing material and shrink the material a bit...then when it is set you go back and find the little bubbles you got from the material shrinking...so you take a razor and cut them like a blister and try to work them down. Then about a year later they turn purple and shitty.
This man speaketh the truth.
It takes a long time to do. At shops they put it on then trim it. And they know what they're doing, rather than you just looking at a site and guessing.

With precut you have to get it just right. And even then, it will be messed up.
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Civic2Scooby
a fuckin pain in the ass. You have to clean the windows with spray and a razor blade then size the sheet then get the sheet up without one spec of shit getting behind it. then you have to squeegie the shit out of it to get rid of all the bubbles...then use a heat gun to slowly dry out the water in the backing material and shrink the material a bit...then when it is set you go back and find the little bubbles you got from the material shrinking...so you take a razor and cut them like a blister and try to work them down. Then about a year later they turn purple and shitty.
That's all i needed. You answered my first question. I just wanted to get idea of what was involved. However I was talking about pre-cut tint, but it still sounds hard as hell.
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