Just bought Nissan Almera. Finally I got my new car, goodbye to my old Wira. I decided to buy new car now because I heard car price will go up in the end of this year...not sure if you guys out there knows about it.

Now, my next step supposed is to get my car tinted when ... (I will share my experience here)

That day when I got my car, Nissan Salesman recommended me to go to Optimate as I asked him to recommend me a good tint shop. Well, I never heard of such brand, guess is another house brand. So I told him that I would like to tint my car with genuine U.S product but he told me all the tinted film are the same as long as it provide good heat rejection, no matter is from U.S or not U.S. (I feel he does not have much knowledge on tinted film, go online to Low Yatt Forum lar...can learn many things one)

The Salesman was quite patient and being nice to me, he said he will “escort” me to Optimate telling me just give it a try to know the product there. So, since I got some time I followed. When I reached Optimate, I was showned a few products by a gentleman. As I am still doubtful, I asked a few questions to compare on their product versus Llumar, HuperOptik, V-Kool, Raytech & 3M, Worldtech...

That gentleman showed me a device called IRR Metre, saying that this device can test on the tinted film reading. He tested on a few product from Vkool, Llumar, Raytech and to my surprise...all the mentioned product reading shown that the performance of Infrared Rejection is poor. He told me that out there those V-Kool, Llumar, Raytech, Huper Optik and 3M is lousy product, he said they fake the specification  only his product is good. The funny part is he never test on his own product. I just don't trust this device. He kept mentioning the branded product is expensive and lousy compared to his. He add on mentioning that his product is warranted for minimum of 10 years and some even Life time...can you believe that? Life time? Sure or not?

Even the U.S product couldn't give such long warranty...it gave me another doubt.

I told the saleman, I will think about it. He then gave me a few more options like Top-Gard and Cool-World. I don't know why this salesman never suggest me V-Kool, Llumar, or those genuine
U. S film. May be he knows US film is expensive and thought I could not afford.

I went on surveying and did dropped by to check on Cool-World and Top-Gard. Well, the price from them is also not cheap...some even almost same price as the US brand. I decided I put my tinted on hold...I am still surveying at Georgetown area. My friends some did their tint at Llumar and some asking me to go Raytech and some said Vkool is good...I will continue my survey first before I make my final decision...gosh...