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Bought a roll of window tint from fleabay to coat the little 'uns bedroom window 'cos it's cheaper than buying blackout blinds (and I'm not happy about having loose cord hanging around from a safety point of view as well).
The added bonus of this is that I can have a bit of a muck about trying to tint the back windows of my Surf with the left over film.
"How hard can it be?" I thought.
Despite my famous last words, actually not very hard at all. It's time consuming and there is a real knack to doing a good job (alas, a knack I haven't quite got yet) but given that the alternative to slightly naff looking DIY window tinting is no window tinting at all I'll stick with what I'm doing. It'll hopefully help keep the truck a bit cooler (little 'un has been struggling during the warm spells so far this year & it'll probably be good for the dogs in the back too).
Only done 2 windows so far. I attempted the back window and it was an absolute disaster so gave up on that one to save wasting loads of film until I get my technique right.
I've done the "quarterlite" on the left and the main rear passenger window on the right. It's just that it was those two that I didn't make a huge muck-up of from the pieces of film I cut from the cardboard templates I've made.
The untinted quarterlite next to the tinted main passenger window makes it look like someone has smashed the untinted window in!
One of the dogs is at the vets tomorrow getting neutered so I'll spend the time at my dad's house (near the vets) having a go at the other windows I think. Can't help but think I ought to get around to doing more important stuff (like the glow plugs!) but I should get time for that too.
The added bonus of this is that I can have a bit of a muck about trying to tint the back windows of my Surf with the left over film.
"How hard can it be?" I thought.
Despite my famous last words, actually not very hard at all. It's time consuming and there is a real knack to doing a good job (alas, a knack I haven't quite got yet) but given that the alternative to slightly naff looking DIY window tinting is no window tinting at all I'll stick with what I'm doing. It'll hopefully help keep the truck a bit cooler (little 'un has been struggling during the warm spells so far this year & it'll probably be good for the dogs in the back too).
Only done 2 windows so far. I attempted the back window and it was an absolute disaster so gave up on that one to save wasting loads of film until I get my technique right.
I've done the "quarterlite" on the left and the main rear passenger window on the right. It's just that it was those two that I didn't make a huge muck-up of from the pieces of film I cut from the cardboard templates I've made.
The untinted quarterlite next to the tinted main passenger window makes it look like someone has smashed the untinted window in!
One of the dogs is at the vets tomorrow getting neutered so I'll spend the time at my dad's house (near the vets) having a go at the other windows I think. Can't help but think I ought to get around to doing more important stuff (like the glow plugs!) but I should get time for that too.
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