As glowstang93 stated the above is wrong! The tint can be put on either way, but is very time consuming to do the individual strips, plus look at how many more straight lines have to be bladed to do that. With a back glass that is 5% black even the smallest inconsistency will be noticed.
The most important thing is finding a quality shop. The prep work of cleaning the glass throughly, especially along those defroster lines, is what makes or break a quality tint job. Go and look through a parking lot and you can tell the difference on who went to a good shop and who didn't. A lot of shops just clean the windows once with no scrubbing and most of those will have dirt in the tint, guaranteed.
An yes, with the tint over the defroster lines you can still use it.
****ing right lol. JUST TINT THE WHOLE WINDSHEILD! 50% full windshield, 15% everywhere else. Nobody has ever noticed unless I point it out, including cops.
$400 laser cut tint job right there. you get what you pay for....
I know its not a 5.0, but here is my 03 with 15% all the way around , except the windsheild.... havent had any problems with the defroster lines, but if on a 94 & up u have to get a black vinyl strip put over the dot matrix at the top of the rear window because it bubbles up a little there...
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I had mine done 40 (legal here) on the sides and quarters, and 20 in the back. I thought about going darker on the back and quarters where you're allowed to, but I don't like when there's a big difference in the tint, especially on the side/quarter windows when they're that close to each other. Like everyone else, they tinted over my defroster strips without a problem, and I use it.
I had mine done 40 (legal here) on the sides and quarters, and 20 in the back. I thought about going darker on the back and quarters where you're allowed to, but I don't like when there's a big difference in the tint, especially on the side/quarter windows when they're that close to each other. Like everyone else, they tinted over my defroster strips without a problem, and I use it.