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Tinting my soft top upper windows.
03-05-2012, 08:36 AM
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Tinting my soft top upper windows.
I finally found a way to tint my soft top plastic uppers without it looking crappy and also somewhat matching my rear tinted cargo area. By using tinted screen window netting normally used to keep the hot sun off of young children.
First let me say I tried first to use Gila static cling tint from Auto Zone. It looked descent but the small bubbles just drove me crazy. I'm sort of a perfectionist. I found the write up for that on a few wrangler sites. I tried to make that darn static cling tint work for weeks and finally gave it up.
I was about to pay a local auto uphostery shop 100 bucks a window, (which I still may do later), but than I happen to come across this child window netting at a local Tuesday Morning store. So why not give it a try?! So it comes cut like a glove that you simply put on a car window like a sleeve, couldn't use it like that on my upper windows. So I cut it to cover my window and after making a frame for it using some walmart auto carpet, it turned out really nice. The carpert frame snugs perfectly inside the upper door frame and snugs tightly against the plastic window.
And unless you get really, really, really close up on it, you can't tell it's netting.
First let me say I tried first to use Gila static cling tint from Auto Zone. It looked descent but the small bubbles just drove me crazy. I'm sort of a perfectionist. I found the write up for that on a few wrangler sites. I tried to make that darn static cling tint work for weeks and finally gave it up.
I was about to pay a local auto uphostery shop 100 bucks a window, (which I still may do later), but than I happen to come across this child window netting at a local Tuesday Morning store. So why not give it a try?! So it comes cut like a glove that you simply put on a car window like a sleeve, couldn't use it like that on my upper windows. So I cut it to cover my window and after making a frame for it using some walmart auto carpet, it turned out really nice. The carpert frame snugs perfectly inside the upper door frame and snugs tightly against the plastic window.
And unless you get really, really, really close up on it, you can't tell it's netting.
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03-05-2012, 10:55 AM
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OK, so when you say "make a frame" what exactly did you have to do? How did you get it to stay against the window. I was literally about to buy some of that Gila Static cling film, but this sounds interesting.
03-05-2012, 11:14 AM
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First let me say if you are going to tint the rear cargo plastic windows the static cling tint works well for those because those windows are reletively straight. But if they curl at all, they will bubble.
1. But for the netting I first cut the netting in half because they come double layered. I cut with net to fit the size of the window and used gorilla tape on the edge of the net as a initial frame. I then cut strips of the carpet materiel and made a frame over the tape frame. I then stapled the carpet strips together to make the frame.
I'm gonna create one tonight and I'll take pictures of each step.
