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Guest Shady

By Guest Shady
in Window Tinting - General Discussion

Do you completely film the side drop glass windows and file the top edge off or do you leave a small gap along the top edge?  

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  1. 1. Do you completely film the side drop glass windows and file the top edge off or do you leave a small gap along the top edge?

    • I file along the top edge.
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    • I leave a small gap.
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    • It depends on how im feeling that day.
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I have done both in the past.  Now, tiny tiny gap....U can't see unless ur looking for it.

[*]331285

tiny,tiny,tiny, x4 gap! Or if I screw my edge up, I got to file to keep the tiny,tiny, tiny, x4 gap lookin good! :gasp

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Guest Al-tint

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I have filed several SHOW cars, but in the real world a small gap is acceptable. When the window is closed there is to be no light gaps, but when the window is open and light is coming in, who really cares about a TINY gap. If it is one inch, well then you need to be :gasp

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teeny gap  :gasp

I only file if I double cut and window #2 isn't the same as window #1

filing can cause problems with de-lamination later

[*]331333

Is teeny smaller than tiny, tiny, tiny, x4?

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teeny gap? :gasp

I only file if I double cut and window #2 isn't the same as window #1

filing can cause problems with de-lamination later

[*]331333

Is teeny smaller than tiny, tiny, tiny, x4?

[*]331349

I forgot . .com

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I leave a small gap......(1/4" or 1/8" if I can).........but, of course my history is about 30 cars over about 15 years, so I take what I can get since I don't do it for a living.......LOL!!!

Filing is news to me. I've never heard of it.....(thus my enrollment in this site). I'll search about it unless somebody wants to give Cliff notes on it here in this thread.

I used to laugh at a local tint shop back in the early 90's that used to tint leaving a MASSIVE (I.e. ghetto?) gap on roll downs & I'd laugh my ass off lookin' at those things. What's hilarious is that they were obviously good tinters 'cuz the gap was precisely hidden when the window was rolled up. But, apparently they thought ghetto gap was cool..........LOL!!

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here ' ya go

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:gasp

[*]331361

Ahhhh......yeezzzzz, but down toward the front of that glass you're either "tiltin' " or "filin'" 'cuz that sucker's UN-even...........(ribbin ya').......... :gasp

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