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07-14-2009, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Long Branch, NJ
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Window Tinting - Auto Image in Freehold?
Got quoted $150 for rear and side windows on my 5th Gen.
Anyone have experience with them? Please share. Thanks!
If you have any other places you think are great around Long Branch (or within a half hour or so), please share! I'm new around here and have no clue.
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07-14-2009, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Central Jersey
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I had mine done at Auto Image in Brick. Nice guys. Did a great job. Still hate that dot matrix crap at the top of our window though. Thats the only part that doesn't look perfect.
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07-14-2009, 05:40 PM
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auto image in brick have done 3 of my cars, 2 were camaros, and numerous friends' cars. i like them and like their work.
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07-14-2009, 05:42 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Somerset, NJ
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i had a really bad experience with auto image on 18 near east brunswick. they did something with my windows but it made the windows pop off the window track on both windows i had tinted.
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07-14-2009, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Central Jersey
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Thats not the first time I've heard of a prob with that location.
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07-14-2009, 07:34 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Toms River
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hey thats where im going to be going soon,, everyone tells me there good now at least i know its a buck 50 for my hatch and driver and pass side windows
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Last edited by dmheer08; 07-14-2009 at 07:34 PM.
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07-14-2009, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Somerset, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 7R_NINJA
Thats not the first time I've heard of a prob with that location.
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yeah what have you heard? the guy who runs it...if its the same guy..is a complete a-hole especially with younger guys. they messed with something on the window track guide on my door and my windows havent been the same
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Originally Posted by dmheer08
hey thats where im going to be going soon,, everyone tells me there good now at least i know its a buck 50 for my hatch and driver and pass side windows
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if its your daily driver i recommend you dont get your front windows done...way more problems than you need...and it really is unsafe for cops..
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07-14-2009, 11:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dmheer08
hey thats where im going to be going soon,, everyone tells me there good now at least i know its a buck 50 for my hatch and driver and pass side windows
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his quote is for a 5th gen. rear triangle windows and back glass. f body is probably around 200 for rear and sides.
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07-14-2009, 11:20 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Long Branch, NJ
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Thanks for the tips. So it seems like Auto Image in 18 is a no. And people seem pleased with Brick.
And dmheer, I love that IROC. That's the first Camaro I fell in love with back in the day.
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07-15-2009, 09:23 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Central Jersey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by madness410
yeah what have you heard? the guy who runs it...if its the same guy..is a complete a-hole especially with younger guys. they messed with something on the window track guide on my door and my windows havent been the same
if its your daily driver i recommend you dont get your front windows done...way more problems than you need...and it really is unsafe for cops..
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A friend of mine had the same issue with his drivers side window. Heard a few others complain simply of the tint job itself.
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07-15-2009, 10:12 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Columbia
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I had a friend use Fabulous Auto Alarms in Passaic and he was very happy with their work. 973-955-4390 and ask for Leo.
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07-15-2009, 10:44 AM
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yah tinting over our dot matrix's are relatively hard.. you can develop air bubbles so easily if not done right... i'm going to try to tint my car next week , we'lll see how I do.
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07-15-2009, 12:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
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a friend of mine works at garden state window tinting. he was looking at my rear hatch and mentioned that they use some trick with a glue stick or something over the dot matrix so it doesnt get air bubbles.
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07-15-2009, 09:39 PM
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^^ eh... it's better to just squeegie it out...and not bother w/ the glue... some ppl use glue but it doesn't come out the best and some times looks like a bunch of scratches.
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07-16-2009, 12:15 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Somerset, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 7R_NINJA
A friend of mine had the same issue with his drivers side window. Heard a few others complain simply of the tint job itself.
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yeah dude BOTH of my windows popped off the tracks multiple times after i brought it there. they worked PERFECT before i brought it there. like ok, i can understand if it happens due to normal wear and tear...but the day after i bring it there? both do it? come on..be real..
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07-16-2009, 09:14 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Central Jersey
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^^^I know man. Thats terrible. At least the others know to stay away now.
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07-16-2009, 09:21 AM
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they probably had the glass out of the weather stripping and forgot to set it back in. those honda windows are funny like that. had one come in doing it. though it had a bent regulator too.
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07-17-2009, 01:10 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Somerset, NJ
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i know most of the generation civic i have from 96-00 have that problem. its an easy fix. but when i asked them if they took the glass out they said no, they didnt...
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07-17-2009, 01:28 AM
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most of the time you tint you don't take out the window....^^and what are u doing up so late. I'm the only NJFBOA nightprowler.
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07-17-2009, 07:08 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jam
most of the time you tint you don't take out the window....^^and what are u doing up so late. I'm the only NJFBOA nightprowler.
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no, but they pull the weather stripping back. the tolerances for the glass in the track are very tight. weather stripping incorrectly laid will easily cause the glass to bind and pop out of the track.
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07-25-2009, 11:52 PM
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alright so i just tinted my windows and it all came out pretty goood so far. ..but whenn I did the hatch .. i f'ed up... icouldn't do the bows of the window... so from what I gathered autoimage in brick is the place to go.. any other reccomendations
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07-26-2009, 10:56 AM
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hey sirbrad, my buddy was over at autoimage the other day and a yelllow 5th gen with black stripes was there getting tinted. his plate was bumbulb or bumbllb i fogert exactly but bum-bul-b
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07-26-2009, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Somerset, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetbmxrider
hey sirbrad, my buddy was over at autoimage the other day and a yelllow 5th gen with black stripes was there getting tinted. his plate was bumbulb or bumbllb i fogert exactly but bum-bul-b
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thats gay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNAGcP-gOA LOL
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