Date:         Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:59:43 -0700
Reply-To:     Steve Macaulay <smacaulay@INFINTIUM.COM>
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From:         Steve Macaulay <smacaulay@INFINTIUM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tinting Westy Sliding Windows
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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