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30% Tint

Here's some shots of Limo rears and 15% fronts!

Really like the look, but I wonder what's it like driving at night. Could you see another vehicle just behind and to the side if you looked over your shoulder ?? I mean sometimes you can't always see what you want to see out of the mirrors (especially at night).

Food for thought;
In this modern age of scientific advancements and what not, how is it that we can't buy a windshield that for want of an explanation reacts just like a pair of photochromatic eye glasses, i.e. the 'tint' changes from light to dark dependant on how much sunlight bounces off them. Super dark in the daytime and much lighter at night. I realise that the cost of such a windshield would be very costly, just surprised it's not available.
:dunno:..............:dunno:

It's fine for blind spots and stuff in the night... i'm used to it since i;ve rides with same configuration tint for 5 years now...

speaking of photochromatic i read a while back that either benz or audi was working on a car with windows like that... would definitely make alot sense... or even auto dim like the rear view mirrors..

Speaking of tint, I was about ready to purchase this X5. What's up with this tint? I think it's a pretty crappy job, right?

There's nothing wrong with it. The active matrix on the edges are hard to fill in with tint... alot of tint-ers will take a black sharpie and just colour it in. i;ve seen it done on some cars. Mine is exactly the same as the pictures you posted of the rear... Just the way it is.

... :confused: ...Mine ain't like that...looks terrible imo. Sometimes you pay for what you get.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7346/badtint.jpg

I think maybe it wasn't "privacy glass" to begin with and the last owner may have gone too dark, maybe too much of a contrast and on those raised edges (where the black sort of distorts into the glass) the tint sometimes has trouble holding and can look that way. Not a terrible tint job, but sometimes hard to avoid if the curing conditions are too cool. If it was tinted during a cool/cloudy week, the film will remain stiff and have issues like this along the edge of the X5 rear window edges. My first go at mine, I tinted during winter, this sorta thing happened (not as drastic since I have privacy glass to begin with). Come summer and a hot forecast, I did the rear window over and not it looks perfect, like glossy black windows.

my $0.02