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I recently got my car's windows tinted since I live here in California and I have to go to school in an excessively hot area. Sometimes, when I come out to the car, the car is 115 degrees in the summer. I like the tint job a lot and even though it's not summer, I can already feel the difference. I have my rear 3 windows tinted limo tint and the front 2 passenger a medium tint. I decided not to tint the windshield for legal and perhaps night safety reasons.
However, I'm now having to reconsider because of an interesting issue that I never would have thought of:
Because my windshield is not tinted, if I am driving towards the sun (or even if it's just real bright out), I wear my sunglasses. I'm used to ALWAYS wearing my sunglasses in the car except on overcast/dark days; I don't want eye damage or cataracts. Now, when I wear them, it makes it extremely difficult if not impossible to see out the back because the back is already so dark. In other words, my rear tint only lets in 5% light already, which is fine... But with my sunglasses on on top of that, it's probably like 2% light and that's just too dark.
But if I take my sunglasses off, it's too bright since my windshield is not tinted and that's the direction I'm facing most of the time. The contrast between the rearview mirror (very dark) and the windshield (very bright) also makes it so that it is difficult and I have to squint to see out the back with my rearview mirror.
This doesn't happen if I have my sunglasses off, which is why I was thinking of tinting the windshield because then I could just drive with them off all the time and everything would be even. Any thoughts/experience with this?
Thanks.
However, I'm now having to reconsider because of an interesting issue that I never would have thought of:
Because my windshield is not tinted, if I am driving towards the sun (or even if it's just real bright out), I wear my sunglasses. I'm used to ALWAYS wearing my sunglasses in the car except on overcast/dark days; I don't want eye damage or cataracts. Now, when I wear them, it makes it extremely difficult if not impossible to see out the back because the back is already so dark. In other words, my rear tint only lets in 5% light already, which is fine... But with my sunglasses on on top of that, it's probably like 2% light and that's just too dark.
But if I take my sunglasses off, it's too bright since my windshield is not tinted and that's the direction I'm facing most of the time. The contrast between the rearview mirror (very dark) and the windshield (very bright) also makes it so that it is difficult and I have to squint to see out the back with my rearview mirror.
This doesn't happen if I have my sunglasses off, which is why I was thinking of tinting the windshield because then I could just drive with them off all the time and everything would be even. Any thoughts/experience with this?
Thanks.
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