38% all around - dark cloudy day - I'll replace these when i get a sunny day! Pre-tint pictures on a nice sunny day are in my gallery.

Let me know what you think!

 

Looks great! I love your JCW! I have 35% on my front windows and 20% on the back. Not too dark in the front and I love it.

 

Looks great, the tint looks perfect and I love the color of your Mini. I think I would strongly consider Hz Blue if I was in the market for a Mini now.

 

That tint does a lot to the whole car.....really looks good.
Love the blue too, very nice.
I'm waiting on my jcw...tint will probably be the first thing I do, thanks for posting pics.

 

Thanks folks! I'm loving it too! Can't wait until I get 1,200 miles on it...

Wondering what I might do next...audio upgrade (just have the base), maybe spring for the JCW Aero Kit w/ the painted wheel trim...

Post your pics when yours comes in!

 

Looks great! Add me to the love the color crowd!

 

How do you upgrade your audio? I have a 2010 Mini Cooper (non "S"), with the base audio, and wondered if there was any options for an upgrade, and if it's even worth it?

 

Your car looks great!!. Was that the darkest you could go in your state?

I like mine a bit darker:

 

This should be a bit more realistic.

 

Looks good. I believe that is the same grade tint that I want to get. I am not into the dark stuff....

 

Getting my windows tinted on Tuesday. Will post pictures up next week.

 

Looks great I also have 35% tint.

 

I Also Have 35 But Im Gonna Go Double Layer 5% To Get That dark Limo Look To It

 

I have 20% all the way around...state law is 35% in front and 20% in back....ill take my chances

 

I love that blue. TInt looks nice.

 

Onefish2,

I love what you've done with your car... tint, the new body kit. The JCW kit looks a lot better than the aero kit (which I have). Just don't make me feel bad for the aero kit either, like how you did with the JCW stage 1.

-- Has anyone tinted their sunroof? Looking at these tints, the most sunlight that will come in is probably through the top... even with the sunshade.

I'll post up pics of my car later... I've got 20% tint front and back.

 

tints were my first "mod"....changes the way the car looks completely....I love it

 

Rotadent, I was not busting on you. I really was confused as to why you bought the JCW stage 1 kit. But you explained yourself and now its clear. Doing all this stuff is a learning process. Some of us get to our desired results quicker and spend less money doing it. I tend not to be in that club. Time to plant another money tree in my back yard .

Thanks for the compliments. I still miss the factory aero kit and still wonder why I spent all the money swapping it over to the JCW aero kit.

Back on topic now. I have 20% tint on both panels of the sun roof. If you can go darker you should. That was the first thing I said to my self was hmmm... should have gone darker. But some tint shops do not want the liability if the dark tint and the heat of a hot car make the sunroof glass shatter.

 

They all look great!

 

They all look great! Just got a citation on my tint on HWY 5 last week, the CHP actually turned around on the medium and came after me! Thought it was my speed but got me on tint. Have to remove it and pay $25. California is broke,guess they need every penny!

 

You mean you have to remove tint from the front windows right? AFAIK it's legal to tint as dark as you on the rear and back windows in CA.

 

Sorry to hear about the ticket.

It is illegal to tint the front windows in California. Back windows are fine, however dark you want them.

It's at least cheaper to get a fix-it ticket than a speeding ticket. But I have heard that they have been handing out speeding tickets more. Apparently, "tickets have been a good source of money, without raising taxes." I heard that from an insurance agent who has been seeing a lot of his clients get ticky-tack speeding tickets. He also said these were clients who haven't had speeding violations in years.

 

Just the front ones, but it looked so cool! And I was almost to my destination. I've heard the same thing, their handing out more tickets than ever for anything! The officer was very nice but its the law so I'll remove it

 

When the CHP pulled me over for my tint he didin't ask me to sign anything so did I really get a citation? He said to expect it in the mail then go to the nearest CHP and have them write it off, send the paperwork in with a check. Don't you have to sign something when they pull you over or has it changed? Never gotten a ticket before!

 

This is confusing. I read that it is illegal to tint the front windows in California. But the tint shops show me the law and say that you can have clear or up to 75% light transmission tint on the front windows. They claim that even with a super light tint, there is a 43% heat rejection factor. So which is it? Can you have some tint on the front windows as long as it's super light? Or can you have clear? Or nothing of any substance at all?