Hi

Had my freelander tinted which was awefully done, it was booked back in to be done correct and now it looks like when removing the badly done tint the guy has pulled some of the heater element off.... even after me asking would it do this to be told it wouldnt...

When i put the heater element on you can feel that alot of them do not heat up and the ones that do are very hot

What do you guys think?

Cheers

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I'd get a price for a new rear screen and fitting, then I'd ask him to refund the full tint money plus the price of the rear screen. If he agrees , great. Then walk away and forget the tinting. If he refuses, I'd just get the refund for the tinting, chalk it up to experience and get a new rear screen fitted. ( you can buy repair kits for the defogger, sort of conductive paint, but it would just me off everytime I looked at it. ) 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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Buy it, enjoy it and don't about with it is my mantra of owning a expensive 4x4 car.

Otherwise its buy it, about with it and regret it. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
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as stated get the refund and compo if you can, going to be difficult to prove it wasn't like that before. Common sense isn't very common.
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Yorky Bob wrote:

Buy it, enjoy it and don't about with it is my mantra of owning a expensive 4x4 car.

Otherwise its buy it, about with it and regret it.

Be a dull world if we were all the same

Well had a reply which seems like they will fix it pending photos, so least thats something

The fitter first and second one both checked the rear screen and both said the heater element was intact before starting the job but like said could be a pain in who said what. I know it was fully working as everytime i go fishing on the return trip the rear windows fog up and i always use the heated screen to demist on the return trip home, plus with just having winter i use it nearly every morning and did so on the way to the tint shop lol

Like said above everytime i let someone near it todo a job someone messes something up.....

Took the rear off to see how the element is fitted and it seems that its under the dot matrix that goes around the edge of the window so im guessing its going to be a proper pain in the rear to fix it window out job or even new window?

Also noticed that the heater element only has a single wire going to it, so im guessing colder places have twin feed wires to put more current through it?

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New window if you want it to be perfect. As I said if you are dead handy with masking tape and a repair kit, you could get it work, perhaps, that's a thirty quid bodge. Cost of new glass , haven't got a clue, but plain tinted is going to be £200 to £300 at a guess. If you are intent on having black back windows , get the rear heated screen supplied in original equipment privacy glass, going to cost you more I guess. Then you only have to let the bodgers loose on the rear side glass

*** Make sure that your tinters are getting a like for like replacement screen, not doing the conductive paint bodge ! You are entitled to this , not a repair ! 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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Just have to wait and see there reply before anything else, its a shame as if the first guy had of done a good job, then everything would be fine, but as he cocked it up and the next guy had to remove the crap work "tints", its recked the element and now sealed the recked element back under the new tint lol

All i want is it to be right but it seems to be anything but. Happy outcome would be new rear glass with element and dot matrix then to be tinted propley = job done, but will see maybe auto glass or someone can fit new element and dotmatrix then it could be retinted

Dan

P.s the tint company is Global Tints so its a large outfit not just some random guy Freelander 57 plate XS Blue Auto

I don't want to " on your chips " Offshore , but the rear glass is a single unit. The dot matrix is baked onto the glass, it has two purposes, the adhesive that bonds the window into the frame uses the dots as a surface to grip onto, and from the outside the black dots stop th sun damaging the adhesive. The demister element is printed onto the glass, it can't be replaced . It's new glass or nothing, apart from the "paint " bodge. 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

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2023 Toyota Hilux invincible X 2.8 Auto .

My Sister had a company clean all the house windows. They scratched the glass. They denied it was them so I photographed the glass filaments still attached to the glass from a scraper.

We marked every main scratch, there were many hundreds of stickers all over the house. It look like it had chickenpox.

They changed there attitude instantly with the photographs and a letter from a lawyer. $17,000 worth of glass was replaced.

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MartynB wrote:

I don't want to " on your chips " Offshore , but the rear glass is a single unit. The dot matrix is baked onto the glass, it has two purposes, the adhesive that bonds the window into the frame uses the dots as a surface to grip onto, and from the outside the black dots stop th sun damaging the adhesive. The demister element is printed onto the glass, it can't be replaced . It's new glass or nothing, apart from the "paint " bodge.

Update had a phone call from motorglass to get it sorted, global tint has requested to motorglass that they fit a factory tinted rear glass screen.... does anyone know what tint level a factory tint is please? The rest of the rear tints will be 20% so im hoping that the factory is 20%? If its anything else then i wont be having it fitted or like wise if its not a landrover stamped screen

Dan Freelander 57 plate XS Blue Auto

Sorry to hear of your troubles offshore! I have a scratch in the tint on my windscreen that I was going to get sorted at some point, I'm just going to leave it as is now. It's not a big deal and not worth the potential problems. At least they have offered you a solution, although I think out would be very lucky to get a land rover stamped screen, but stranger things have happened!

Cheers Ct8637. If your scratch is on anything foward of the boot windows then it should be fine to have sorted

Motorglass turned up and fitted the factory tint rear window so its all sorted now, apart from waiting for the other window tints to dry, touch wood they are all ok once they have dryed oy propley

Its not a LandRover stamped glass but is a proper Pilkington stamped glass

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