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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Traveler" data-source="post: 399623" data-attributes="member: 7248">Some of my recent experiences in 3 cars with 3 different tints:1. V-Kool Elite - appears quite clear (many people unaware it's tinted); great heat rejection (when parking outdoors, I don't bother with front windscreen foldable screens); SmartTAG works great; Garmin GPS signal reception seems ok, but might be problematic at times, didn't test it for long as my car has the iDrive Navigation.2. Llumar (security film)- appears slightly darker than V-Kool Elite; great heat rejection; SmartTAG works great; Garmin GPS signal reception seems better than V-Kool Elite.3. 3M - appears quite a bit darker than V-Kool Elite; poor heat rejection (had to blast the aircon at max when driving down the highway at noon), can feel the heat radiating through the windscreen quite noticeably; SmartTAG - did not test; Garmin GPS signal seems quite good, and better than V-Kool Elite.Given a choice with a new untinted car, I would take LLumar for the security features, as it seems as good as V-Kool Elite plus it is a security film, and appears to have slightly better GPS signal reception (not an issue if using iDrive based GPS), and only drawback (or plus, depends on you), is that it appears slightly darker than V-Kool Elite (then again this could be due to the thickness of the security film). I wouldn't go for 3M based on my less than satisfactory experience over this past weekend driving a car with 3M tint.</blockquote>

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