Tiguan Tinting

**harrip** · 01-10-2009, 10:12 PM

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** · 01-10-2009, 10:21 PM

See this thread:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newf...highlight=tint

**mickofoz** · 01-10-2009, 10:26 PM

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** · 01-10-2009, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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!!** · 01-10-2009, 11:13 PM

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** · 02-10-2009, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

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

**Umai Naa!!** · 02-10-2009, 10:44 AM

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

**Sanman** · 02-10-2009, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by team_v

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