Got my windows tinted on Monday 7/18 (3M Ceramic IR on all sides and one-piece rear windshield for $600) and pretty much left the tint to dry for most of the week as I worked from home. When I finally went on a drive yesterday and did a thorough inspection under the sun, I noticed a moderately-sized piece of debris stuck underneath the rear window tint. Everything else is pretty much perfect; no bubbles, no scratches/damage, tint shaved well along the edge of the window. Now I'm debating my options on what to do before I contact the tint shop to let them know what I found:
1) Ask to have it repaired (most likely re-tinted). I'm concerned the re-tint will screw up my defroster lines which would cause an inconvenience to both me and the shop as I would have to service the car to replace the rear glass and they would have to (hopefully) cover the cost of the glass replacement and re-tint.
2) Accept the defect and hopefully find out that it doesn't really bother me that much. I have enough OCD to find it, but I will never really see it regularly unless I purposefully look for it. It's on the darkest part of the gradient so you cannot see it from the outside. I probably carry rear passengers 0.5% of my driving so the likelihood of somebody sitting in that rear seat and spotting it while I drive is negligible.
3) Tell the Tint Shop I found a defect and ask for some sort of compensation to accept it and leave it alone. I would think getting $75-$100 of my money back is a practical compromise as the re-tint would probably cost them more than that, and $500 for an almost-perfect tint job in the Bay Area seems reasonable to me. I'm just not sure if this is even a viable option or if they would think I'm crazy for asking for any money back.
Any thoughts or experience on possibly getting a partial refund for a bad tint job?
1) Ask to have it repaired (most likely re-tinted). I'm concerned the re-tint will screw up my defroster lines which would cause an inconvenience to both me and the shop as I would have to service the car to replace the rear glass and they would have to (hopefully) cover the cost of the glass replacement and re-tint.
2) Accept the defect and hopefully find out that it doesn't really bother me that much. I have enough OCD to find it, but I will never really see it regularly unless I purposefully look for it. It's on the darkest part of the gradient so you cannot see it from the outside. I probably carry rear passengers 0.5% of my driving so the likelihood of somebody sitting in that rear seat and spotting it while I drive is negligible.
3) Tell the Tint Shop I found a defect and ask for some sort of compensation to accept it and leave it alone. I would think getting $75-$100 of my money back is a practical compromise as the re-tint would probably cost them more than that, and $500 for an almost-perfect tint job in the Bay Area seems reasonable to me. I'm just not sure if this is even a viable option or if they would think I'm crazy for asking for any money back.
Any thoughts or experience on possibly getting a partial refund for a bad tint job?