Well, I learned a hard lesson. I went last week and had the windows in my 06 gt vert tinted. I asked the company that did it whether or not I should have the felt or moleskin put in before the tint. the window tint company said "no, we've done several Mustangs and haven't had a problem with any of them" I asked them several times prior to getting the windows tinted and they said the same thing every time.
So after 5 days I put the windows down for the first time. Guess what I saw when I put them up? It looks like a cat was left in my car and went to work on these windows. I'm almost positive that when I call them and tell them about this they are going to tell me to go pound sand. They said they give a lifetime warranty on everything but scratches. I would hope that scratches would still be covered if it was less than a week since they tinted them to begin with.
I'm going to ask the company to replace the tint for free after I install moleskin but if they don't go for that I'm going to ask them to remove the tint and refund my money. I highly doubt I will get that either. So I will probably end up removing the tint myself and bitching about the window tint company the whole time. I figure that since it was on there for less than 1 week it shouldn't be too hard to remove but with the luck I've had so far, who knows. Best part about all of this is now it's going to be an up hill battle to talk my wife into any mods or additions to the mustang after this.
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Well, I learned a hard lesson. I went last week and had the windows in my 06 gt vert tinted. I asked the company that did it whether or not I should have the felt or moleskin put in before the tint. the window tint company said "no, we've done several Mustangs and haven't had a problem with any of them" I asked them several times prior to getting the windows tinted and they said the same thing every time.
So after 5 days I put the windows down for the first time. Guess what I saw when I put them up? It looks like a cat was left in my car and went to work on these windows. I'm almost positive that when I call them and tell them about this they are going to tell me to go pound sand. They said they give a lifetime warranty on everything but scratches. I would hope that scratches would still be covered if it was less than a week since they tinted them to begin with.
I'm going to ask the company to replace the tint for free after I install moleskin but if they don't go for that I'm going to ask them to remove the tint and refund my money. I highly doubt I will get that either. So I will probably end up removing the tint myself and bitching about the window tint company the whole time. I figure that since it was on there for less than 1 week it shouldn't be too hard to remove but with the luck I've had so far, who knows. Best part about all of this is now it's going to be an up hill battle to talk my wife into any mods or additions to the mustang after this.
I can't understand why folks aren't going after your ford dealer on this. The windows have a product flaw and Ford knows it. I went to my dealer and he (on warranty) replaced the window parts. He also replaced at no cost the tint, which in my case, I had the dealer install.
I have an 07 Coupe with window tint from the day i bought it installed by a popular tint place never scratched had it for probally 9 months now but parked for last 2 because of winter
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