Window Tint - what to expect (quality)

[wfdTamar]

I don't think you can compare any one Tint a Car place to the next as they're a franchise. Even within one store there will be more competent conscientious tradesman (except it's not a trade is it?). You would think though that the head office would make it clear what standards are acceptable/expected. Instead it seems to be whatever they can bully you into.

and they didn't want to take my Myer One card because it was a discount price. Grr.

I went for the Bolle tint as I wanted a factory look and not a dark sky look. It is quite green which sometimes looks good, sometimes too much.

I'll see what happens tomorrow.

[woofy]

Yep all different, so prior history doesn't mean much when they get sold off either.

[brad]

that's a lousy job.

My tint is now 7 years old and it didn't have any bubbles & stuck to the rear glass without issue (and he did it in 3 pieces & you can't see the join).

The door trims didn't come off either (I still can't work that out).

My tint guy is anal about getting the windows clean, especially around the edges. He spends more time cleaning than applying the tint.

He also sands down the black dotted parts around the edge of the window so that it adheres properly and doesn't bubble.

A good tint job shouldn't look like an add-on.

[sillyboy]

I'd say ask them to fix it until you are satisfy, try to keep the communication in email form as much as possible(so you will have tracking records when you need it), if you are not happy still, ask for a refund, and lodge a complaint through ACCC, ACCC is generally very good responding to consumer complaints. However I think the seller would usually act more decently/helpful once they know you will/did get ACCC involved.

[wfdTamar]

that's a lousy job.

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He also sands down the black dotted parts around the edge of the window so that it adheres properly and doesn't bubble.

A good tint job shouldn't look like an add-on.

The owner said that dotted area around the edge was an area that you couldn't help getting the 'not stuck down' look. Interesting to hear that there is a way to make it look right.

[wfdTamar]

The other area I wonder about is the rear of the rear doors on the small pane. Along the rear edge there is a step in the black edging that comes with the car and the tint film hasn't stuck along that leaving a light edge visible.

[bobski]

Bleh - doesn't look like a great job to me. I've had two Skoda wagons done and the jobs come out perfect (interestingly, no need to remove the trim on either). I had a few water bubbles in the last one initially (tiny dots) that disappeared. I did however get them done from brand new, so the glass should have been as clean and smooth as it was going to get. There were/are no imperfections around the wires on either.

I'm with everyone else, try to get it fixed. I don't get them trying to brush you off, you'd only be going back in a few years to get it fixed under warranty.

[brad]

1500 wet & dry - it only takes a couple of passes.

The guy I use is one of the best in Sydney. He comes highly recomended.

BTW: He did my car in the underground car park at work - hardly ideal or dust-free but he got it right.

[nat225]

I'd say ask them to fix it until you are satisfy, try to keep the communication in email form as much as possible(so you will have tracking records when you need it), if you are not happy still, ask for a refund, and lodge a complaint through ACCC, ACCC is generally very good responding to consumer complaints. However I think the seller would usually act more decently/helpful once they know you will/did get ACCC involved.

Is it worth it to involve ACCC against a negligent workshop? I have a really bad experience and will find out soon if it is going to cost me much more than anticipated to rectify. If what they have done did damage my engine block, i think i will go ACCC or involve a lawyer.

[wfdTamar]

The trim removal was more my idea just in case they did have to I would much rather do it myself than have some idiot bust plastic behind them (I can manage that fine by myself).


I told them I had talked to youz lot and that you had no problems with the demister lines and he said 'we obviously won't be able to satisfy you, so we'll take it off and refund you'. He was about as nice as he could be, but still reckoned you just couldn't do the demister lines without some adhesion issues alongside them. Pretty much implied/said I was a fussy bugger that would never be satisfied.

If I can find a place that will do the demister properly I would love to take the car back there and get an apology.

So now I've taken the trim out twice and still no tint - and I've had to deal with this and walk all over the place - and they reckon I'm the baddie.