Date:         Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:46:33 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Headlamp upgrades to brighter lights - night vision
Comments: To: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Unca' Joel and All,

The windshield tint strip can be installed in one piece.....two piece
assembly not required. BUT, it takes a tint savvy guy to be able to do
it. Bodacious compound curves in modern automobiles have become .... out
of necessity .... a specialty at my son's tint shop in Hoover, Alabam.on
the south side(not SouthSide) of Birmmgham.   If anyone is close, they
might want to check it out..... Artistic Solar Films, Tom Rodgers,
205-823-8468.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Birmingham, AL

Joel Walker wrote:

>>I thought the one eye trick just might work until I read this
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>post. One
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>>exception - Sunglasses at night? This would seem to reduce
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>visibility of
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>>everything else that is outside of a headlight path.
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>one thing i found to be very helpful ... a strip of dark tint
>across the top of the windshield. about 8" worth, of the same
>stuff on the windows. you have to do it in two pieces that match
>up behind the rearview mirror, though .. the windshield curves in
>two directions and a single strip wrinkles up. :(
>
>but the trick is to have it just low enough (from the top of the
>windshield) so you can raise your head and straighten up a bit
>and have the oncoming idiot driver's headlights move up into the
>tint. sort of like sunglasses. ;)  it also helps a lot when
>driving into the sun ... especially early morning or late
>afternoon.
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>it's better to put a bit more than you think at first, then you
>can trim it later with a razor blade and a straightedge.  it's
>also a really good idea to cut the tint on the OUTside of the
>bus, to fit the curve of the windshield ... it just makes it
>easier to fit it when you go inside.
>
>yeah, it's still legal. at least in my state. cause all these
>little pocket-rocket hondas and toyotas and those dufus big
>pickup trucks are running around with their names or some slogan
>on their tint at the top of the windshield. :)
>
>unca joel
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