Yesterday I took my van to a professional window-tinting shop. This shop has a great reputation and the owner is supposedly the 1998 East coast tint champion and has been voted the best tinter in Virginia for the last 5 years (I don't know who gives out these awards). After looking at my westy and the sliding windows, he turned down the job. This guy was such a perfectionist, and he said the only way he would do the job is if the side window and the back window besides the closet was removed. Otherwise, he couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't peel off since he couldn't tint past the vertial felt strip on the side windows. Even when I told him to do the best that he could without having to take the windows off, he said he had a reputation to protect and he wouldn't do it unless he could do it perfect. The closet window was simply to restricted for him to get to in the way that he needed to "do it right". The guy was definitely good, and his work is flawless. However, he is too much of a perfectionist. Time to find a new tinter. I don't really want to pay for the windows to be removed just to please this guy, when I can live with the little imperfections that he was concerned about. Steve 89 Westy |
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