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3M Tint Vs Llumar – Customer Question

Hello,

I’d like a quote for a tint job on my car:

1991 BMW 535i

Front/rear side windows, and rear windshield (no front strip)
85% full metallic tint

Thanks!
Ben

3M Tint Vs Llumar – My Answer

Hi blessings and hope your having a beautiful day.

For the 3M Tint Color Stable film if you have a 4 door car it’s $550
If you have a 2 door car it’s $450

But if you want the 3M Tint Crystalline film and if you have a 4 door car it’s $850
If you have a 2 door car it’s $750

Hope that helps
Feel free to call (415) 484-8468

All the best,

Jeremy
3M Tint Vs Llumar Specialist

3M Tint Vs Llumar – Customer Reply

Hi,

A Shade Darker said they do the whole car with Llumar ATC or ATR for $275.

How does the 3M Tint compare to the Llumar tint (3M Tint Vs Llumar) in terms of solar reflection? And, would my tint job have a lifetime guarantee against defects?

Thanks,

Ben

3M Tint Vs Llumar – My Reply

Hi Ben,

I have nothing bad to say about A Shade Darker or Llumar film. I used Llumar film for the first 10 years of window tinting and have no complaints, but I wanted to offer the best of the best to my customers and 3M Tint is it.

Like anything, you get what you pay for and 3M Tint is more expensive for a reason.  

I made the investment for the customers out there that want to make the investment too.

With all that said if you are asking me to sell myself over another shop, I can’t speak for other shops because they are not me.

I can only stand by my own word.

Way beyond window tinting, I first care for your wellbeing and want the best for you. Then I care about your quality 3M tint job and excellent customer service.

Not that others don’t care but I can’t speak for them.  

What I can speak for is that I work with integrity in all that I do because I live with integrity in all that I do the best I can.

If you want to get a feel for what I am talking about read this blog called “To The Top 15 Percent And Growing : Thank You For Having Integrity” I wrote this for one of my other websites.

If for whatever reason you decide not to get your windows tinted at Perfect Darkness, no hard feelings, blessings and be well.

I will recommend other tint shops in the local area that “should” be of high quality, but they don’t get my personal guarantee.  

A Shade Darker, Sun Tint and Tint By Day, these are the only three in Santa Rosa CA. that I would go to if I didn’t tint myself or want 3M tint, knowing what I know now about window tinting.

Perfect Darkness Tint does the 3M Tint window tinting for many other shops and dealerships in the local area such as Sonnen BMW in San Rafael CA

Perfect Darkness also does the window tinting for Dent Dynamics, Auto Sport Detailing, Integrity Auto Glass, Truck Top USA, Campway, Autobahn Detailing, and Advanced Vehicle Outfitters as well as others from time to time.

You asked if I warranted my work, and the answer is yes all my labor work is warranted and backed by a 3M Tint lifetime warranty for the film as well.

Because of the fact that I do warranty my work and I use the best film on the market in this industry and because I believe in having a good attitude and building relationships, all of these shops continue to work with me over the years and if that is not enough I have many video testimonials here on my website too.

Here is part of an email I received from my 3M Tint Rep Rocky that breaks down the technical stuff:

“Color Stable auto film uses a proprietary technology that colors polyester resins in liquid form. 3M Tint patented the technology of coloring polyester in this fashion.  

This is why we call it Color Stable…

Carbon particles mesh with the polyester and are truly stable…

You can compare it with the color on a car tire,  as the tire wears the rubber stays black even old tires are still black …

All other manufactures use a old technology of dying or metalizing clear polyester rolls.

Most manufactures warrant their products for life but warranties are only as stable as the companies behind them.

When you buy from 3M Tint you buy with the piece of mind that your warranty will be honored and that the products are better as long as you compare apples to apples.

Color Stable if compared with any of our competitors must be compared with similar constructed products of which don’t exist.  

On top of all that Color Stable has the most true smoke or black color then any other film on the market.

 You will see that most films are brown or green or even excessively blue.

Color Stable is the most unique black non metalized film on the market.

Crystalline uses more proprietary technology in the nano form.

Nano technology is a big buzz word these days as well as “Ceramic” in many industries. Again 3M Tint has patented technology in the Crystalline film…

Crystalline was the industries first nano film and is completely metal free and has over 220 layers thinner then a human hair that absorb 97% of the Inferred heat.

Which is the heat that burns your arm as you drive down the road.

Try a sample on your car and see for your self.  

Ultimately 3M Tint films are just more advanced from a technology standpoint,  perform better across the board, and offer the piece of mind that we will be here for another 100 years to honor our warranties if something were to happen to our products. “

Rocky Shaw
Renewable Energy Division
3M Tint Window Films
cell 530-305-1755
rshaw2@mmm.com

I hope that helps. Please give me a call if you would like to schedule an appointment at Perfect Darkness.

Blessings,
Jeremy Creager
3M Tint Vs Llumar Tint Specialist

(415) 484-8468

All The Best,
Perfect Darkness

3M Tint Vs Llumar – Customer Reply

Jeremy,

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the answer to my question: How does the 3M Tint compare to the Llumar tint in terms of solar reflection?

I’m planning to tint all five windows with 85% tint (very light) and I want to use the film that will reflect the most solar energy.

Thanks in advance,

Ben

3M Tint Vs Llumar – My Reply

Hi Ben

Here is some more info from my 3M Tint Rep Rocky, hope this helps

Jeremy,

Ben speaks about “solar reflection” which is not a industry standard spec or NFRC spec.

 He might want to look at SHGC or TSER as it should be available so we can compare alike specifications.

Here is our performance specs. for CR-70.

The only Llumar film that comes close to our CR-70 is Air Blue.

If that is what Ben is looking at then we are better.

Llumar does not publish their IR reduction specifications that I can find?  

IR is the heat we feel on our skin in direct sun light. This is very important in a vehicle.

As we drive we are constantly in direct sunlight with no where to go.

Crystalline is the most efficient nonmetal film on the market at reducing heat from the sun.  

Lets also note that our film is tested at 90 degrees and at 60 degree angle which is more realistic to how the sun hits a car window.

Our films increase in performance quicker then any other film as the angle of the sun gets further away fro 90 degrees.

 

68% Visible Light Transmitted
50% Total Solar Energy Rejected
59% On Angle†
97% Infrared Rejected††
38% Solar Heat Reduction
9% Visible Light Reflection Int.
9% Visible Light Reflection Ext.
99.9% UV Rejected
23% Glare Reduction

†TSER On Angle calculated at 60 degrees
††IR for wavelength range of 900-1000 nm

 

Here is the specifications for CS-50 I looked at the specs for ATC 50 and the TSER is 26%. ATR TSER is 35% and if you have some ATR put a metal detector on it I think you will find it has metal in it.

We don’t make a 85% in CS or anything but CR.

We also have the CR-90 if he wants it all to be legal.

51% Visible light transmitted
37% Total solar energy rejected
30% Infrared rejected
99% UV light rejected
8% Visible light reflected
42% Glare reduction
18% Solar heat reduction

Best Regards,
Rocky Shaw
Renewable Energy Division
3M Tint Window Films
cell 530-305-1755
rshaw2@mmm.com
All the best,

Jeremy Creager
3M Tint Vs Llumar Specialist

3M Tint Vs Llumar – Customer Reply

Jeremy, thank you for that information. Sorry for my vague terminology, total solar energy rejected was the metric I was referring to.

However, it looks like I’m facing somewhat of a dilemma.

The CS line only goes as light as 50%, which for me would be too dark to pass for legal on the front windows.

The CR line obviously has the best performance and comes in the lighter shades that I’m interested in, but it’s hard for me to justify the $850 price tag.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ben

3M Tint Vs Llumar – My Reply

 

Yes we could do the back windows in the 50% CS for $350 and the front 2 windows in CR 90% legal for $300

Bringing the price down to $650 the best of both worlds

All the best,

Jeremy Creager
3M Tint Vs Llumar Specialist

3M Tint Vs Llumar – Customer Reply

Jeremy, after comparing the specs between the CS50, CR90, and CR70, it seems like CR70 might give me the best of both worlds.

The difference in solar heat reduction is pretty significant compared to the CS50 and CR90 even.

I’m hoping that doing 70% tint on all the windows would appear very light, similar to factory tint.

Do you have any pictures of cars tinted with the CR70 all around?

If it look subtle enough I will just save up for the full CR tint job.

Thanks so much for all your help/information,
Ben

3M Tint Vs Llumar – My Reply

If you do your whole car in CR 70% almost no one will even know it’s tinted because it is so light,

I have 70 on my two front windows, love it.

Just let me know when your ready
All the best,

Jeremy Creager
3M Tint Vs Llumar Specialist

3M Tint Vs Llumar – Customer Reply

Awesome, I think I will do that then.

I’ve researched this thing to death and it looks like 3M Tint Crystalline is my best bet.

I can’t even find any other tints (carbon or ceramic) above 70% transmittance that aren’t tinted some blue/green color.

Thanks for reading, I hope you got a lot out of it.

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