V-Kool is costly if installing at authorised installers. However, if buying new cars you may opt for V-Kool package with reduced prices for certain brands, one being Nissan. With the Nissan Almera, V-Kool Elite for whole car costs only RM2.8k, other cars would be around the same price. If installing outside I believe the price will be close to RM4k or higher.

Based on my limited experience, V-Kool has the best heat rejection and durability when compared to all other tints I've installed on my previous cars. However, all those tints are cheaper tints (Huper Optik and others) so the results are expected. Tints with good heat rejection performance are usually more expensive. The Huper Optik tint is pretty good but only for about 3 years before the heat rejection performance drops. By the 7th or 8th year the car feels like there is no tint as it feels like an oven inside the car. The V-Kool Elite feels the same from the first day it was installed on the new car until the 5th year when I sold the car (Nissan Sylphy), no perceived drop in heat rejection performance.

I think it's normal for the leather seats inside a vehicle to deteriorate with time, not only from the sun but wear and tear. Also, the type of leather is a factor too as most are not real leather. It is usually at the sides of the seats where the lines or cracks will appear, or the sides of the backrest. Even normal leather sofas in the living room will show wear and tear. For me, the most important criteria of a tint is to have good heat rejection for the comfort of the driver and passengers, all other considerations are secondary.

Unfortunately, no one are buying or interested in TCM cars nowadays since many years ago.

I'm just suggesting that V-Kool tint can be installed at cheaper prices when buying new cars, not necessarily with Nissan but with other brands that I may not be aware of, and it will be useful for prospective owners who are considering a Nissan if they appreciate good quality tints such as V-Kool.

Yes, there is a lack of interest with Nissan vehicles these days when compared to other Japanese makes but there will still be interest. It's not actually "no one" is interested in TCM, "not many" would be more appropriate.

This post has been edited by SportyHandling: Jun 25 2025, 11:31 AM

I had vkool 4O before. excellent tint! But huper optik is no way bad compared to vkool. only a tad bit inferior in heat rejection. My current rhinepro black beauty series is an example of cheap tint with bad heat rejection . lol

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I don't see much chatter on Ravo tint. They are locally made. Any good/bad experiences with this brand?

How’s your Alva now? Third year already. Any issues with the tint?

But their workshop like factory production line, so many cars so I guess they are rushing when install.

This is just the nature of businesses here. Many problems we Malaysians face with all sorts of products are usually not the fault of the products themselves but the quality of the installation (I just got back from an office block that had a nightmare VRF air-con installation).

With Alva, at least you pay for what you get — semi-decent product, questionable workmanship, low price — but in Malaysia you will also find man companies with high-end pricing that practice dogwater standards. I won’t name names, but there is a very famous “premium” ceramic coating company with branches all over the country, and in every branch, the work area is a joke. The customer cars are so close to each other in the same room, staff working on cars at the same time. You will see one car with workers applying the coat, while the next car barely 6ft away has someone polishing it. They don’t know small bits are flying off the polishing pads and floating in the air, falling onto the car that has the coat in the middle of curing?

Let’s not even start discussing shops using J&J baby soap for tint application instead of dedicated applicator liquids. Heck, they can’t even get the grammar right in this country. “Tinted” is past tense/participle la, tauke.

This post has been edited by dev/numb: Jul 11 2025, 06:11 PM

Laws of diminishing returns.

V-Kool is good. Not 6 times better than Alva kind of good. And I prefer ceramic tints over metallized, I don’t know what’s 3M crystalline - not metallized not ceramic.

I’m surveying <1k tint partially reasons you mentioned, and frankly technology has advanced a lot since V Kool started this tint thing 20+ years ago.

Well, advanced and getting nearer but for now, I still think high quality metallized tints especially VKOOL are still technically the better tint for me in terms purely from the heat rejection perspective.

Ceramic absorb heat and disperse them when especially when moving (in technical terms), metallized tint generally tried to reflect them out. There is a difference in that in real life application rather than just paper spec. Of course the type metal used, the layering process, material used besides metal, all differs between different brands.

I am bias towards good metalized tint. For VKool, for me, it is still the best but the price is also the utmost premium priced out of many ppl budget (me included). It also last over decade as has been proven by my 3 vehicles that installed them and only forced to change when hit decade and a half when they finally started detaching aka blurring. Surveyed and end up with the only premium local branded Irispro DX series (their silver mixed nano titanium premium metalized tints). The heat rejection is indeed very impressive (after a year).

3M is quite a unique tint as it is neither metalized or ceramic. It is mostly polyester layer, 200 layers of them compressed. Impressive as it gives really good performance and is neither the tint common metalized or ceramic-based tint. Unfortunately it can't go thru Smart Tag mostly, so no go for me.

This post has been edited by Cavino: Jul 14 2025, 09:27 AM

Which shop you install?

I just bought a new axia, anybody can recommend a moderate priced tint in penang, probably anything below $700?

No need branded shop, just want good heat rejections and workmanship...

I think nanoceramic tint should be around this price range

Just curious to know, around 1.5-1.7k, which brand and model of that tint I can look for? Thanks

Which states got branch?

This post has been edited by LA773: Aug 6 2025, 09:50 PM

Area? i did mine in seri kembangan blueshield

do shop still provide security tint? anti break in /something similars

Pmed can check inbox yea, have tinted deals now. Thank you

yes there is. Even though it is not so famous or in demand as circa 2014-2015, like every tint brand promote the safety tint than normal tint

Pm for suv . Thanks

Pmed yea, check inbox thanks for enquiry

Hi can pm promotion details for honda jazz.. Thank you