{"id":4977,"date":"2015-09-01T02:11:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2015-08-17T02:16:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T02:16:54","slug":"my-car-mod-10-volkswagen-golf-r-mk7-window-tinting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/01\/my-car-mod-10-volkswagen-golf-r-mk7-window-tinting\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car: Mod #10 \u2013 Volkswagen Golf R MK7 Window Tinting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Location: Tint King in Billerica MA. It’s about 2.25 hours south of me but the place was highly recommended and I was going to be on the NH \/ MA border this weekend anyway. I showed up at 2PM, they got started at 2:30 and I was out by 3:40 after talking about cars and answering all of my questions. A guy with a 2011 Audi A6 came in after me. Beautiful car.<\/p>\n

I did FormulaOne Auto Tint Pinnacle\u00ae series<\/a> at 50% on the windows “behind driver” I could have gone 35% but I actually don’t want a dark look. In NH, we are only allowed 35% max behind driver. I want to reduce UV and light since I have some sensitivity to light even with sunglasses. It’s with that said that I also did a Pinnacle Air Blue 80<\/a> on my front and small corner windows. This is not allowed in New Hampshire but the contrast between 50 and 80 blue is so much that it looks like the front is only OEM blued instead of being tinted. The guys did awesome work. you can’t even see the seams of these tints. the film goes glass to glass!<\/p>\n

For me, the biggest thing was they were the only shop I could find that would do film on those small corner windows<\/p>\n

I paid $380 and it’s all Ceramic film, 2 guys working for 1.5 hours on the car and I’m really happy with the work. I could have saved $100 to go Pinnacle non-ceramic but the benefits were great and the FormulaOne Tints are lifetime warrantied and transferrable if I ever sell my car, just give the tint receipt to the guy that buys the car next. Here are some photos of the install:<\/p>\n

When i walked up to the car a few hours later at the grocery store, I’m a huge fan of 50%. Not too dark or too light, cops can still see in if they want as i have nothing to hide but it does look good alongside the darker blue car.<\/p>\n

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I got to see a Defender at the grocery store which was pretty awesome!<\/p>\n

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