jwf renegade vs suntek carbon

bman848 · November 18, 2013

Hybrid films have dye in them. What hybrid are you using?

My main film is and always has been JWF Silhouette. It is a great film. My buddy who taught me to tint has been using it for 20+ years and I have been using it for almost 11 years. It will easily last 8-10 years in this Florida heat and I have seen several vehicles that it has lasted longer. I just re tinted a truck that Chris tinted 15 years ago with Silhouette 5%. It needed to be re tinted but was not that bad. It didn't even turn purple in all those years. Just delaminating here and there. My in laws still drive the 1st car I ever tinted and minus a little contamination from being my 1st install, it is in perfect condition almost 11 years later. I have total confidence in this stuff and will probably never change. I have bought other films because they were on special deals and regretted it every single time. I always end up selling to someone else.

How does the Silhouette match up with factory tinted glass?

Not too bad. Depending on the vehicle it can be a little more reflective. I use a lot of 15% for match up jobs. 20% works too. I've tinted a couple thousand cars with this stuff and everybody loves it.

I have a facebook page with a pile of cars I've tinted and you can check it out for yourself. https://www.facebook.com/lightsoutwindowtint

Just make sure you get the correct lights out window tinting page. Mine is the one with the black Ford F250 on the cover page and a sign with a boxer guy.

DItint · November 18, 2013

Thanks for all of your input guys, keep them coming. Any of you guys tried geo shield dark matter? Likes / dislikes?

coast2coasttinting · November 18, 2013

That stuff is shiny alright.

TINT · November 18, 2013

i love renegade the way it looks and shrinks but to install if you are not careful you can crease or crinkle it in tight spaces and its not forgiving. and suntek carbon well , its green :lol

addicted to tint · November 19, 2013

The two films are different construction. Renegade is still a dyed film while carbon is not made of dye at all. Color stability should be better on the carbon, I just wish Suntek had a better scratch coat.

They are both really just deep dyed film. The Sun Tek folks have been convincing with their "just tell them it's Carbon". Reality is the "carbon" component utilized in the film line has a minimal effect on any of it's VLT's of < 3-4%. The TSER is equally minimally improved by "carbon" component, < 3-4%. The performance of this line is mainly the result of the dye in the film, throughout the full VLT range available.

TintOhio · November 19, 2013

man, you weren't kidding you like silhouette... lol, looks good, nice Iroc Z!

pbalentine · November 19, 2013

The two films are different construction. Renegade is still a dyed film while carbon is not made of dye at all. Color stability should be better on the carbon, I just wish Suntek had a better scratch coat.
Are any of you guys having problems with Carbon installed the last 2-4 years? The Carbon we installed in 07 we had a few scratch coat failures after 2-3 years but now that stuff is haunting us with several r and r's a day. The Solar Gaurd we installed from the mid 90's to 04 has held up pretty good. Liked using Carbon but......
Cheers

Stan

Stan, whats a scratch coat failure look like? The suntek hp i installed a little over two years ago stated getting hundreds of "lines or zerks" in every direction on the entire window within months. Its weird too that it happened on two different vlts. I like installing suntek, but I have doubts about the longevity of all their films.