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Old 02-22-2011 | 11:09 PM
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Headlight and Tail light tinting

I ordered pre-cut films from rvinyl.com last week they came in today and oh boy what giant pieces of crap these things are. They look as if a 4 year old with 1 eye cut them and the vinyl is so thin it folds easily over itself and creases if you look at it funny.

I had a 2005 Audi A6 prior to the truck, that I had tinted the lights on but, I just don't remember where I ordered from. The tint was super thick, high quality and nearly a perfect cut. I was thinking it was rvinyl so I ordered from there but, now I am certain it is not.

Has anyone ordered films for their 09-11 truck? Was it cut well? Was it thick?

After-the-fact, I looked on http://www.lamin-x.com/ and their stuff looks a lot like what I used on the Audi and was VERY pleased with. I vaguely remember there being tabs on the film used in installation that got cut off after.
 
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Old 02-23-2011 | 09:41 AM
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I ordered pre-cut films from rvinyl.com last week they came in today and oh boy what giant pieces of crap these things are. They look as if a 4 year old with 1 eye cut them and the vinyl is so thin it folds easily over itself and creases if you look at it funny.

I had a 2005 Audi A6 prior to the truck, that I had tinted the lights on but, I just don't remember where I ordered from. The tint was super thick, high quality and nearly a perfect cut. I was thinking it was rvinyl so I ordered from there but, now I am certain it is not.

Has anyone ordered films for their 09-11 truck? Was it cut well? Was it thick?

After-the-fact, I looked on http://www.lamin-x.com/ and their stuff looks a lot like what I used on the Audi and was VERY pleased with. I vaguely remember there being tabs on the film used in installation that got cut off after.
yup... they fell of about 10 min after i installed them and they look blue.
 
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Old 02-23-2011 | 09:53 AM
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i used lamin-x. its a decent product if you can get it to work. IMO you're better off just nightshading it. it'll be a lot better
 
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Old 02-23-2011 | 11:04 PM
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So I called laminx and xpel today (the other one I couldn't think of) and neither of them had record of me buying anything from them but, this was a good long time ago. I ended up ordering from laminx. I'm 95% sure the tint I used on the Audi was from lamin x...
 
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Old 03-09-2011 | 12:07 AM
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Got my Lamin-x stuff put on today. AWESOME!!!!!!!!

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ANYWHERE! Buy Lamin X!
 
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Old 03-09-2011 | 12:58 AM
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Old 03-09-2011 | 12:59 AM
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pics...

I dont seem to have the ability to upload pictures.
 
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Old 03-09-2011 | 01:04 AM
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pics...
There we go. Snapped a quick phone pic after I got the tint done this morning
 
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Old 03-09-2011 | 03:08 PM
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I laminx'd my heads and tails on my 09 FX4. Turned out really good and was easy to work with. You will find that with that tint on your headlights they dont give out much light at all, especially at night. I bought black projectors and removed the originals.
 




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