When my roommate bought window tint, they sold him insurance for $35 so if he got a ticket they would take it off for him to get the ticket signed, then replace it after. Don't remember exactly where he went though. But I'm like most of you, I have only been pulled over 1 time for it and it was by a trooper.

 

I've heard about that insurance as well. Most district courts in Michigan have been incorrectly allowing the tint ticket to be signed off or "waived". According to Michigan Supreme Court Administrator rules that dictate what the district courts may/may not do, only incidental damage to equipment may only be waivable ticktes. Those would include a cracked windshield, burnt out light bulb, imoperative windshield wipers etc. Modifications made to a vehicle in violation of the vehicle code are not supposed to be waivable tickets. District courts in my county have been given this directive and are no longer making the ticket waivable. At best, if you bring the car to court with you they might reduce the fine by $20 or so, but that's about it.

It's really gonna get interesting if the law is changed from a small fine and no points/no history on the driving record to a 90 day (jail) misdemeanor with $100-$500 fine and mandatory removal.

Could you imagine getting arrested and having your car towed for 35% on your side windows?

 

I went to my eye DR. AFTER being pulled over on i-75 and getting a window tint fix it ticket. He gave me a letter saying I was photophobic and had to have all my vehicles tinted. Gotta love it. Gave the letter to the courthouse and they dropped the ticket.
Brandon

 

Me and numerous of my friends have used and still use sunshade and they have done excellent work for us, i wouldn't recommend anyone else in this area...

 

Yeah...I know they do good work for others, but you read my other thread that I linked to, right? I got screwed bad.

 

Yea i did read it and it means nothing to me really. None of us (My friends and I) have had any troubles with them and i'm not going to stop recommending them because i heard one side of one negative story from a guy i've only met once. They do the best work around bar none. Sorry you had a bad experience, but to be honest its the only one i've ever heard about sunshade.

 

Easy there, fella...I wasn't asking you (or anyone else) to change your mind or take sides.

For the record, I didn't know that we met in the first place, I wasn't basing the problem I had on my personal reputation. I was just stating fact. I am not sure how there could be more than "one side". As if I would lie about it? The proof is sitting in my garage.

And of course it doesn't mean anything to you, you have had good experiences a with them (I did too, once) and aren't the one who got taken for a ride.

I can understand you wanting to defend them because they do good work for you, and I am not going to bash them all over the place over this. I didn't even want to mention them in my first post I made a few months ago I was just looking for advice. My post in this thread is the only time I have ever mentioned them specifically.

 

I met you at M7, and there is a very obvious other side to the story. Why would someone who does EXCELLENT work want to retint your window for no profit when there was no guarantee it would stick in the first place and he could spend the time doing another job and actually be making money. It's really not fair for you to expect that of them, especially not considering the quality of work they do... time is money.

 

Oh...sorry. I forgot.

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and there is a very obvious other side to the story. Why would someone who does EXCELLENT work want to retint your window for no profit when there was no guarantee it would stick in the first place and he could spend the time doing another job and actually be making money.

Before they started, I told them I was back because they did such a good job on my last car. I expressed how good of a job they did in the rear hatch and that was the reason why I was back. They never said that I got lucky that time or anything to the effect.

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It's really not fair for you to expect that of them, especially not considering the quality of work they do.

And like I said, they might do quality work for everyone else but not in my recent case. And it was fair for me to expect at least a little bit of concern over my situation. After spending hundreds of dollars and having it not turn out substandard, and when I expressed that I wasn't as happy as I could be, they shrugged their shoulders and let me (a paying customer) walk away unhappy. That wasn't fair to me.

I wasn't expecting them to go out of business for me, I never asked for anything for free, and I was not demanding or unreasonable. I didn't act like an ******e or anything. A little customer satisfaction would have went a long way. Instead of letting me know they appreciated my business, they didn't show the least bit of concern for my satisfaction. That is not good business, not even once.

They might have done great work for everyone else, but not for me and it shouldn't have ended up with me out of money and unhappy.

I can guarantee that if it was you in my shoes, you wouldn't be happy about shelling out over $500 dollars for a tint job that turned out bad, and you most certainly wouldn't still be saying "they do great work" when they didn't in "one" out of 1,000 jobs is that "one" was you. I can understand things going wrong, it happens but how it is handled is what counts.

I honestly don't want to argue about this, I never did. I do understand your side of the situation and it seems that you aren't stopping to see my side because in your thoughts, they did nothing wrong.

I can already see that this is something we won't agree on and I will leave it at that.

Sorry you disagree.

 

I am looking at getting my Z's windows done this weekend. Prolly 25% on the sides and 5% on the back glass i'm thinking.

Ziebart told me that they only do the back glass in 3 pieces because of the curvature of the window. Anyone else have this problem/experience??

Any good/cheap places in the Saginaw area??

My step-dad has never been pulled over for having this arrangement on his Z so I figure I'll do something similar.


Rick