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Ron - I paid $150 in SoCal for 3M FX Premium on my whole car. Word of advice - 3M guarantees their films for life, and if it ever delams or bubbles or anything, you can take your original receipt to ANY 3M tint dealer and get it replaced for free. It's a big bonus.
Anyway - the shop called me after about two hours of fiddling with it and said they weren't sure how they could get the tint to apply properly to the hatch because of the curves of the glass. After multiple failed attempts at making it with one piece, I think they talked to someone who had a lot of experience and he quickly told them this advice - they used an old trick of splitting the tint into two separate pieces (top and bottom) and did it right at one of the defroster lines since they run all the way across - the result: you can't even see that it's split, and made for a much easier job for them.
Hope this helps!
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Can't really explain it, but I'm still on the fence with regards to tinting the 968. Where-as I've immediately tinted every BMW I've owned. My rear hatch needs to be re-done, and it's a ways down the to-do list, so if I go for tint it'll be sometime after that.
-Austin
'94 Black/Tan Coupe
6sp. LSD, 18" Carrera Lightweights, M030 struts and sways, Racer-X chip, airbox mod
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When I purchased my car it had some old "purpled" tint on all the windows, and that had to go! I went to a local tint shop and the boss said "no problem", but the guy who actually does the work shy'd away from the job. So I made it as easy as possible for them by removing the hatch, wiper motor (wanted this off the car anyway), trim and took it to the shop in the back of my truck, on a good piece of foam rubber for the shop to lay it down flat. This helps because gravity is pulling the film in the right direction, and provides total access, therby minimizing the chances of goof ups for the tint tech. As a bonus this prevents the technicians from crawling around in the back, and leaving greasy footprints everywhere.
By the way, I went with a lighter tint shade, and, It looks good.
Hope this helps...........
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ROb
1994 Midnight Blue 968 Coupe
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My car coupe was sold new in Arizona and it had dark tinting added to the rear hatch, the quarter windows and a lighter tint applied to the door windows when I purchased it from the original owner. I found the tinted rear hatch to be so dark that it significant obscured rear vision in daylight and eliminated it altogether at night. I also found that the view out the back was distorted by the film as it didn't have particularly good optical clarity at the angle the rear hatch sits at. I had it all removed and I don't regret having done so.
Chris Vais
1994 Coupe Midnight Blue Metallic
2015 Audi Allroad Quattro Brilliant Black
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