Is privacy glass becoming council?
Discussion
I must be totally corpy then - I have tinted glass and black wheels.
In some climates, it's an absolute necessity in order to avoid damage to dash pad, seat coverings and furnace-like interior heat build up when parked out in the open.
The Llumar Ceramic tint on my car reduces the inside temperature by more than 20F when the outside temps are higher than 90 degrees.
I think it looks peculiar when the front glass is a different color than the rear - as in most of the pics in this thread.
In some climates, it's an absolute necessity in order to avoid damage to dash pad, seat coverings and furnace-like interior heat build up when parked out in the open.
The Llumar Ceramic tint on my car reduces the inside temperature by more than 20F when the outside temps are higher than 90 degrees.
I think it looks peculiar when the front glass is a different color than the rear - as in most of the pics in this thread.
Quickmoose said:
I wonder on how many days in a year in England, the sun shines with such power as to burn restricted children and over heat a dog...
I reckon it's significantly less than the number of days your car looks nauseatingly council driving about like a badly spec'd hearse around town in less tan bright conditions
You'd be surprised at how effective it is, regardless of how many sunny days there are (or not) in the UK. Besides, I don't care too much about the UK it's the annual three week holiday I take in deepest Croatia where the temp is regularly around 35+ that bothers me more. Cool dog = happy wife. And before you bang on about it, yes, the price is worth it for the three weeks of relentless, blistering sunshine. It's why I specced it.I reckon it's significantly less than the number of days your car looks nauseatingly council driving about like a badly spec'd hearse around town in less tan bright conditions
so called said:
Sorry but this is another of those 'chav' threads.
Please make your mind up on who your insulting.
The wealthy person with crap taste(in your opinion), the family guy who prefers tint to the sun shields, the guy who thinks that it helps to hide stuff in the back when on holiday or the lower income guy who has the same idea but because he's low income and infringing on the better off persons preference choices and so dragging it down the class table.
AgreedPlease make your mind up on who your insulting.
The wealthy person with crap taste(in your opinion), the family guy who prefers tint to the sun shields, the guy who thinks that it helps to hide stuff in the back when on holiday or the lower income guy who has the same idea but because he's low income and infringing on the better off persons preference choices and so dragging it down the class table.
The answer no doubt as regards certain posters is anybody and everybody who doesn't conform to their own views on life.
so called said:
Sorry but this is another of those 'chav' threads.
Please make your mind up on who your insulting.
The wealthy person with crap taste(in your opinion), the family guy who prefers tint to the sun shields, the guy who thinks that it helps to hide stuff in the back when on holiday or the lower income guy who has the same idea but because he's low income and infringing on the better off persons preference choices and so dragging it down the class table.
Agreed.Please make your mind up on who your insulting.
The wealthy person with crap taste(in your opinion), the family guy who prefers tint to the sun shields, the guy who thinks that it helps to hide stuff in the back when on holiday or the lower income guy who has the same idea but because he's low income and infringing on the better off persons preference choices and so dragging it down the class table.
After nearly 13 years on PH, and almost 12,000 posts, I'm giving serious consideration to calling it a day on here.
Way too much negativity.
Edited by TheJimi on Monday 24th October 21:53
Matt Harper said:
I must be totally corpy then - I have tinted glass and black wheels.
In some climates, it's an absolute necessity in order to avoid damage to dash pad, seat coverings and furnace-like interior heat build up when parked out in the open.
The Llumar Ceramic tint on my car reduces the inside temperature by more than 20F when the outside temps are higher than 90 degrees.
I think it looks peculiar when the front glass is a different color than the rear - as in most of the pics in this thread.
Now that I like. The thing about privacy glass though, every time you look in the mirror it looks like night. In some climates, it's an absolute necessity in order to avoid damage to dash pad, seat coverings and furnace-like interior heat build up when parked out in the open.
The Llumar Ceramic tint on my car reduces the inside temperature by more than 20F when the outside temps are higher than 90 degrees.
I think it looks peculiar when the front glass is a different color than the rear - as in most of the pics in this thread.
Quickmoose said:
neil1jnr said:
I've never thought of having privacy glass as a negative thing, but I think a lot of coupes and in particular mid engine super cars look better without privacy glass.
Is this in the same way that 'you' never thought about disliking sprouts, but 'you' think 'you' don't like sprouts? 
Matt Harper said:
I must be totally corpy then - I have tinted glass and black wheels.
In some climates, it's an absolute necessity in order to avoid damage to dash pad, seat coverings and furnace-like interior heat build up when parked out in the open.
The Llumar Ceramic tint on my car reduces the inside temperature by more than 20F when the outside temps are higher than 90 degrees.
I think it looks peculiar when the front glass is a different color than the rear - as in most of the pics in this thread.
that looks good, mostly because all the glass matches, many of us (myself included) dislike tinting because in the UK you can not do the windscreen or driver / passenger door so the side profile looks very odd, it looks like a van In some climates, it's an absolute necessity in order to avoid damage to dash pad, seat coverings and furnace-like interior heat build up when parked out in the open.
The Llumar Ceramic tint on my car reduces the inside temperature by more than 20F when the outside temps are higher than 90 degrees.
I think it looks peculiar when the front glass is a different color than the rear - as in most of the pics in this thread.
privacy glass is tinted to make the car private - a visual thing
Done initially by those with deeper pockets
As with most things, the stuff that rich people like soon becomes the stuff that less rich people like and then in some cases becomes the preserve of 'chavs' or 'council' types
Privacy glass is a good case in point IMO.... but for me more because it makes your car look ridiculous, on a purely personal subjective basis. Do these owners care? do they hell. Do I care that they may like aspects of my cars? do I hell.
Tinted glass on the basis of heat? doesn't have to be tinted. Also aircon is everywhere thee days. And if your are stopped the car heats up internally regardless of heat reflective coatings...it's pretty cruel to leave an animal in a parked car alone for any length of time IMO....digression...
Tinted glass on the basis of glare? blinds.
Tinted glass on the basis of glare and heat - clear heat-reflective glass and blinds
There's no logic when you can be allowed to restrict the ability to see through the rear side glass and prevent glare/burn to whoever is sat back there, whilst having to retain a level of transparency for the front occupants and let them get blinded/burnt
It's a bit like the urban dwellers who insist they need an SUV on spurious threads of justification....when in reality if people like me get upset by your tints (or SUV) just ignore me...
There's more important things to get upset about, like if everyone started putting old cookers in their front garden, or the guy across the road who owns a flat is parking his car in front of your house?! or someone's had the audacity to ask for a cake with some words on it... ffs...
Done initially by those with deeper pockets
As with most things, the stuff that rich people like soon becomes the stuff that less rich people like and then in some cases becomes the preserve of 'chavs' or 'council' types
Privacy glass is a good case in point IMO.... but for me more because it makes your car look ridiculous, on a purely personal subjective basis. Do these owners care? do they hell. Do I care that they may like aspects of my cars? do I hell.
Tinted glass on the basis of heat? doesn't have to be tinted. Also aircon is everywhere thee days. And if your are stopped the car heats up internally regardless of heat reflective coatings...it's pretty cruel to leave an animal in a parked car alone for any length of time IMO....digression...
Tinted glass on the basis of glare? blinds.
Tinted glass on the basis of glare and heat - clear heat-reflective glass and blinds
There's no logic when you can be allowed to restrict the ability to see through the rear side glass and prevent glare/burn to whoever is sat back there, whilst having to retain a level of transparency for the front occupants and let them get blinded/burnt
It's a bit like the urban dwellers who insist they need an SUV on spurious threads of justification....when in reality if people like me get upset by your tints (or SUV) just ignore me...
There's more important things to get upset about, like if everyone started putting old cookers in their front garden, or the guy across the road who owns a flat is parking his car in front of your house?! or someone's had the audacity to ask for a cake with some words on it... ffs...
Quickmoose said:
Tinted glass on the basis of heat? doesn't have to be tinted. Also aircon is everywhere thee days. And if your are stopped the car heats up internally regardless of heat reflective coatings...it's pretty cruel to leave an animal in a parked car alone for any length of time IMO....digression...
I don't think anyone has suggested leaving a dog in hot car on his own and relied on the privacy glass to keep him cool, that would be fundamentally stupid. What I can tell you is that even with the aircon on max chat it takes an age to cool the car down in a hot climate and the dark glass helps my mutt no end, it is qualitatively cooler in the back with the dark glass than the front.It always makes me laugh on this site that even when you say to people that X thing works on their car they must be wrong because the other X thing will do it just as well if not better. Here's the scoop, my privacy glass works for my hound, it keeps her area much cooler than where the humans sit up front and with a water bowl she is more than happy. When I stop the climate is doing it's thing and when I go round the back of the car to get her out you can actually feel how much cooler it is. I couldn't give a flying f
k how it looks or what anyone else thinks of it, council or not, it's a functional optional extra that does what it says on the tin and is damn sight more useful than just about any other option on my car.I have to say that I'd never really given darkened/tinted/privacy glass a second thought until I saw this thread.
I've always thought that after-market applied film was gash, but mainly because of dopey feckers applying it with trapped bubbles, making it too obvious that it was an applied film.
I remember my dad working 'cash in hand' for a chap who sold and fitted the film to tint/obscure windows. He brought some home and covered the front window of our house with it. It was mirror-tint, and because of the street lamp outside even in the dark hours it allowed you to peer out without anyone being able to see in. Until, of course, you put a light on in the room, whereupon the effect was reversed and anyone outside could see easily into the room.
To be fair, though, it WAS a council house. So being "a bit more council" wasn't exactly going to be of much concern to my parents...
I've always thought that after-market applied film was gash, but mainly because of dopey feckers applying it with trapped bubbles, making it too obvious that it was an applied film.
I remember my dad working 'cash in hand' for a chap who sold and fitted the film to tint/obscure windows. He brought some home and covered the front window of our house with it. It was mirror-tint, and because of the street lamp outside even in the dark hours it allowed you to peer out without anyone being able to see in. Until, of course, you put a light on in the room, whereupon the effect was reversed and anyone outside could see easily into the room.
To be fair, though, it WAS a council house. So being "a bit more council" wasn't exactly going to be of much concern to my parents...
My last 2 cars have had 90% tinted 'privacy' glass from factory. I like them and don't really care what anyone says about them. My car, My spec, My choice.
I'd probably stay away from the film that you can apply, but will always aim to get the proper tinted glass.
The car is much darker on the inside which I like, tints reduce glare at night time and stop people being able to see into the car when stuck at traffic lights and stuff. I carry photography gear for work so the tints hide the equipment that's in the car. I tend to keep stuff in the rear footwells, boot and sometimes it has to go on back seats so tints are perfect for keeping it hidden.
I'd probably stay away from the film that you can apply, but will always aim to get the proper tinted glass.
The car is much darker on the inside which I like, tints reduce glare at night time and stop people being able to see into the car when stuck at traffic lights and stuff. I carry photography gear for work so the tints hide the equipment that's in the car. I tend to keep stuff in the rear footwells, boot and sometimes it has to go on back seats so tints are perfect for keeping it hidden.
Osinjak said:
gizlaroc said:
Jesus wept!
I know, right? I honestly don't know why I bother getting pissed off with half the dheads on this site simply because they can't be bothered to read a fking thread properly.Did I bring dogs, heat and glare into it?
no, so perhaps now you can understand how you get so annoyed d
head.I think Privacy glass is council
Justify the use of tints anyway you like....there are better alternatives.
Quickmoose said:
I think Privacy glass is council
Justify the use of tints anyway you like....there are better alternatives.
But blinds are council too. In fact cars with windows are council. Cars are council. Reading a thread on a forum is council. Using the internet is council. Living is council.Justify the use of tints anyway you like....there are better alternatives.
Cold said:
But blinds are council too. In fact cars with windows are council. Cars are council. Reading a thread on a forum is council. Using the internet is council. Living is council.
PH is council, because it seems to be obsessed with council. Would anyone here use the word in this context in a real life conversation?
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