reversing camera and tinting

Just a comment from some one who knows nothing, i thought it was illegal to have your windscreen fully tinted.

Cheers
Baz

Hi Baz

It doesn't work that way with windscreen - you don't get someone to apply tint to it.

Instead you buy a special made replacement windscreen with layer of Uv and max legal tint inlaid between glass layers.

Think was $600 for GU's

I have the real dark tint and i havent noticed any problems with glare on the GPS. But I have in daughters car, so tint maybe the solution.

Also the tint has never ever interfered with reception to my GPS or mobile phones. Actually had the GPS on a couple weeks back and decided i didnt need it as i thought i knew where to go, so put it away inside its case and that into a large pencil case i keep it all in and through it onto front passenger seat. I drove off and as i headed to first corner i heard someone talking and realised it was the GPS telling me where to go and it kept working that way all the way to my destination 20 mins later, despite being in two cases and lying on the seat. I had forgotten to turn it off when putting away. I couldnt believe it would work like that so makes a me think i will fit it lower off dash somewhere rather than on glass so these idiots that like to break in to cars to steal them dont see the tell tale rings on the screen left behind (so GPS worked with dark tint and inside two cases - mad hey!)

The reason these dont work well is they are a mirror after all and the screen brightness cannot overcome the reflection in the mirror.

I found the only thing that worked was a translucent overlay that you would get from a sign writers.
This stops that part of the mirror from reflecting and still allows you to see the camera picture.

I gave up cut the power wire and have an 8 in screen mounted in front of the dash.

Cheers you have wasted your money I"m afraid.

The cars that GPS's dont work in have a factory metallic type tint which inhibits the signal.
You can tell them when you are wearing sunglasses when driving.
They are the ones that have a purplish colour.

BMW and some other European cars mainly

Probably the metalic stuff for DIY does the same.

Just as an aside my Croozer has darker than legal tint in the rear door winows and the rest of the rear windows and darkest legal in the drivers and passengers windows.

It makes no difference to the poor quality of the rear vision camera screen.

Usually tint is expressed as 70% or 85% as in the amount of light it stops or so the installer of mine told me..


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hi Graham
iv been in the trade 14yrs and i alway exspress it as the grade of film an explain that it only allows 15% light throught the window as for a 5% grade will allow only 5% light an so on.but i guess all to their own .
cheers

You probably are correct.

Its the half empty, half full thing isnt it

Depends which way you are looking at it i guess

No pun intended



Cheers