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Originally Posted by Jrboulder
I think the tinting you're talking about is what I would call "drug dealer windows"
The 911 has very mild green tint and the 944 is a little darker. I was hoping to get it a little darker on my 912. They probably don't make tint as light as I want so I'll just forget about it.
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I'm thinking about the sort of tint that's fairly standard on the back windows of minivans and SUVs; a mild grey that's close to what the neutral density filter for my camera looks like.
The greenish hue of the 944's glass is a by-product of a manufacturing process that causes the glass to reflect a modest portion of infrared light, which helps keep the cabin cooler. At least, I'm assuming that's why, since similar green-hue glass is used in construction for that purpose. It's a characteristic of the glass itself, a result of specific compounds added when the glass is formed.
When you go to a shop and ask them to "tint the windows" though, all the shop does is bond a thin plastic film to the inside of the glass and that won't have the same properties as the factory glass, even on the off chance you can get a similar color.
Even with the same amount of visible light transmission, a grey tint from a shop would not look the same.