Tiguan Tinting

[harrip]

I'm shortly to take delivery of a new Tiguan and I'm considering getting the windows tinted.

The garage charge $475 for the privilege - is this about the going rate? Also, do tinters have to take the door fittings off to apply the film?

Never had it done previously so welcome any pointers.

Thanks.

[team_v]

See this thread:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showthread.php?t=33261&highlight=tint

[mickofoz]

When you're spending almost $50,000 on a car, I wouldn't penny pinch for the sake of saving a few bucks on window tinting. I will get it done at VW as part of my order for my Tigga. Sure, it is more expensive, but I'm not about to hand some backyard company my new car and apply some poxy film onto my windows.

[Arctra]

I'm shortly to take delivery of a new Tiguan and I'm considering getting the windows tinted.

The garage charge $475 for the privilege - is this about the going rate? Also, do tinters have to take the door fittings off to apply the film?

Never had it done previously so welcome any pointers.

Thanks.

That's expensive. I had Rob from Hunters Hill Tinting do mine for $280 with lifetime warrenty and great workmanship (I watched him do it). He did it without taking any panels or anything off and it's a top notch job.

Things to consider:
- Get the darkest legal tint you can. I thought it might be too dark but it is far from too dark.
- Get someone whose livelihood depends on his great workmanship to do it rather than one of the big tinting houses where you risk getting a trainee doing it unsupervised and where the person doing the job doesn't really care if the job isn't perfect.
- You will not be able to wind your windows down for 24 hours after the tinting is done, so keep that in mind.

Do a search as there is already a thread in the Tiguan section on tinting.

[Umai Naa!!]

Aftermarket tint is known to affect the signal strength of the radio antenna in the rear glass. Option it up with factory Privacy Glass (Just under $300, from memory), and then have the two front windows tinted to match at the dealership.

[team_v]

Aftermarket tint is known to affect the signal strength of the radio antenna in the rear glass. Option it up with factory Privacy Glass (Just under $300, from memory), and then have the two front windows tinted to match at the dealership.

Isn't the radio antenna on the roof???

[Umai Naa!!]

The Nav one is on cars with factory-fitted RNS510.

[Sanman]

Isn't the radio antenna on the roof???

VWs often have 2 "diversity" antennas - the radio chooses the one with the greatest signal strength. Its a solution mainly for compact antennas in the city where reflection, dead spots and interference is common.
Tiguan has a roof whip antenna (or shark fin with RNS510 option), and a printed metallic strip on the top of the rear liftgate window (so called "glass antenna") masquerading as a rear demist wire

[JamesTiguan147]

With the 147, i only need to get the two front windows done.

Was $280 and $475 for the whole car???

[Umai Naa!!]

I can tell you now, that you will not be paying anywhere near that to get the two front windows done. $150 would be a reasonable figure.

[Freddo088]

Tinting in Brisbane

Just get back to the question.
Is there any good recommand tint in Brisbane?
I had a quote this morning $430 with 3M film. Is this good price?

[Transfer]

Anyone have pics of the front windows matched to the factory rear privacy glass? I would like to do this in the future for a cheap tint option.

[clip]

Just get back to the question.
Is there any good recommand tint in Brisbane?
I had a quote this morning $430 with 3M film. Is this good price?

After declining the dealer option for tinting when I told them I was getting it done locally for $295, they offered it to me for $310 with 3M film and lifetime warranty (as long as I continue to own the vehicle ). I took it.

[Freddo088]

For those who are looking for tint, you should need to look for someone with experience on Tiguan. I had mine done with reference with a friend of mine but it was not a happy experience.
It was done very unprofessionally.
Firstly, he cracks the plastic parts next to the rare window while putting back the rubber. Although, they are going to replace a new part but look I only had the car for 3 weeks that's really not a good feeling at all.
Secondly, I found a screw floating around my back seat while I was cleaning. It end up it was a screw they forgot to put back when putting back the door trim.
Thirdly, I found my back door can't open from inside. They claim it was something slip while they put back the door trim.
On my third visit they manager told me the boys had no experience on Tiguan because it's a new model. I start to wonder am I the white mouse in the lab for experiment.
Now, I am going to get the service center to inspect the door trim to see if they were properly put back because I found on passenger window winding up slower than the other 3 windows today.

[clip]

On my third visit they manager told me the boys had no experience on Tiguan because it's a new model.

what a load of bollocks! Poor excuse for crap service, it's only window tinting, not performance tuning!