Just go to any reputable tint shop in your area. There are a wide variety of tints, and they aren't even all the same color, so they will be able to hold up samples or cut slivers for you up to the other windows to compare. Some tints are a bit blue, some brown, some metallic silver, etc. They'll be able to advise you on how dark you can go as well.
Perfect! Thanks. My Ram 1500 had 20% in the rear and I decided to match it in the front which is illegal in Virginia (35% max in the front). But I wanted it to match. It looked great, but I was always afraid of being pulled over, and everytime a cop would come up next to me, I'd roll down the front windows, even in the winter. ****, I looked so guilty!!
I did that with an SUV once, then quickly regretted it. You could not check the blind spot over your shoulder at night. Now with blind spot cameras and sensors things are better these days but a total black out behind you is a bit disconcerting (for me anyway).
My son has 5% on his windows and around dusk there is almost no way to see a dark colored car coming without their headlights on. Twice he's almost pulled out on a street and got side swiped by someone because he couldn't see them. Now, he rolls down his windows everytime he makes a turn.
Yeah, if I didn't have blind spot view camera or the sensors I'd play it safe, but I found myself never need to check blind spot over the shoulder and glance through second row windows anymore. I would trust the safety tech more than myself because I know I can make human error but sensors will not make mistakes if the startup self check sequence is completed and passed.
This doesnt address when you are making a right hand turn right before dark and you can't see the black car that doesn't have his lights on yet coming at you at 45 or 50 mph. That's the scenario my son has faced twice now in the 4 months since he's had his Kia K5. He now rolls the windows down right before dawn or right at dusk whenever he makes a left or right turn because it's nearly impossible to see cars that don't have their headlights on.
I agree, that's why my 1st row windows are only tinted to state legal max, I think it's about 25%, and they are not too dark.
Oh, I got you. Sorry about that. I thought I had read that you went all blacked out on all windows. My bad. Yeah, I had 20% illegal on my Ram 1500 and while I could see out, the Ram also had auto dimming side mirrors, so the combination made it a bit harder to see out the side mirrors at night. I'm trying to get my son to replace his front windows with less tint, but he's 25 and insists that the front windows have to match the back windows or the car just won't look right. Arrrghh.....
