The importance of Factory Window Tint Percentage

Understanding the Factory Window Tint Percentage

Factory window tint or commonly referred to as the Privacy Glass is an electrical process, known as the deep dipping. The process involves dying of the dark pigment inside the glass used within the automotive industry.

In most cases, the glass is meant for the car windows. It is standard to install factory tint on the rear of the windows. The objective of installing the glass is to provide privacy to people and personal items present in the car.

Factory window tint tends to offer a number of benefits; therefore, it is important to learn about its percentage and impact. In this blog post, we talk about everything that you should know about the percentage of these inbuilt window tints.

Introduction to Factory Window Tint

Understanding the Percentage of Car Window Tints

You might have observed that not every car window offers the same level of privacy. On the contrary, different cars come with different degrees of window tints. The interesting part here is that you can present these varying window shades in percentages.

In lame man terms, we say that the amount of light that penerates through your car window is represented by the the tint percentage. For instance, if a window lets in 10 percent of the light, it means that it would be darker in comparison to the window that allows around 70 percent of the light.

The connection between visible light penetration percentage and tint darkness

Both the concepts – visible light transmission and tint darkness- are of great importance in the privacy film and tint industry. Despite being closely related, the concepts are not entirely the same thing. Basically, less light enters the car when the windows have a darker tint.

So, the tint allows very limited or low amount of VLT. Likewise, there would be a higher percentage of VLT, provided the films are lighter. So, it is safe to that that the sum of the light that penetrates via the window is the VLT.

On the contrary, the tint amount is defined as the darkness. The modern trend is that car comes with a darker factory window films on the backmost of the automobiles. To be precise, the rear window and the backside window of several cars have the default tints installed. The reason being, they offer a high level of privacy to the car owners.

Measuring Percentage of Factory Window Tint

Before you go on adding additional window tints to your car, we do recommend that you should know the amount of tint that comes originally with your car. Of course, if you want to add more stylish window tints, you have a variety of those available. You can engage yourself anytime, you want.

However, knowing the original window tints will help you choose the films are that in accord with your local regulations. For the longevity and smoothness of your glass, go with a expert install glass tint. The experienced installers are able to give an accurate approximate of the original tint at first glance.

In your plan to do it on your own, use a device –tint meter. It will provide you with the correct measures on the amount of light passing through the window of your car.

Aftermarket Tint Vs Factory Window Tint

We did give the basic idea of factory window tint at the staring of the blogpost. Most modern cars are coming with the originally tinted windows. The degree of the tint varies from car to car. These types of tints majorly focus on providing privacy then they do on preventing the UV rays to enter the car’s interior.

In general, you will find a factory window tin percentage ranging between 15% to 20%. This specifies the windows would be deflecting around 80 to 85 percent of the visible light, while it allows around 15-20%.

However, the above numbers are mostly limited to rear windows. In the case of side windows, the tints are extremely light. The tint ranges from 70% to 80%. Thus, allowing more light along with additional heat to pass through the windows.

In case you are looking for a way to upsurge the darkness of your side windows, we suggest using an aftermarket film pasted on top of factory window tint film. Since you plan to apply it over the factory tint, therefore, you need to have its measurement.

As many authorities around the globe have set a certain percentage of tints allowed onto your car. Before installing the aftermarket tint, ensure the percentage of both factory tint along with aftermarket tint is well within the defined range of your local authorities.

Aftermarket Tint and Factory Window Tint: Difference

With aftermarket tint, you can enjoy the sleek dark look, something you can’t do with the factory tint. Since the factory tint has a default set percentage and you have no way of changing it. You can’t remove it; however, it is possible to add to it via the after-market tints.

The aftermarket tints also provide a wide range of options. For instance, you can go with the smash and grab tint or any other sort of tint film. Unlike the factor window tint, it possible to remove the aftermarket tint.

To remove the film, you would just have to peel it off.

Pay heed to Following

When you finally decide to install an aftermarket film, we do recommend that you consider the following aspects for better and effective results.

Use Professional Help

We agree that applying tints onto your windows might not be an extremely challenging task, but to ensure accuracy, we recommend hiring a professional. In addition, the professional will be able to calculate the factory tint percent along with the required aftermarket tint accurately.

Moreover, their tint application would be smooth. It would not have any bubbles or similar sorts of problems.

Local Authorities

You need to consider the law regarding tinting your car windows. Since the percentage varies from state to state, do check in with the traffic police to avoid committing a crime.

Percentage Calculation

Although, a professional would do a better job at this. Nonetheless, you can calculate the total percentage of the car tint after knowing the percentage of the aftermarket tint as well as the factory tint.

For example, you need the films VLT to be 8%, and the default VLT is 80 percent. Your final tint would have a value of 6.4 percent. So, what we did here is that we multiplied the aftermarket VLT with the VLT of the factory and divided it with 100. (8 x 80)/100.