Cheap Window Tint: Spray Paint?

[V8BoatBuilder]

Ok - Maybe I'm nuts, but I need to tint the 3 windows (side and rear) of my pickup truck cap, the blacker the better. It for security, not style.

But I don't want it to look like junk, it is my work truck.

Can I use spray paint? Has anyone done it successfully? Other ideas? I tired DIY window film and it failed on me.

Call me crazy!

 

[LBarr2002]

I believe there's a spray on tint for headlights/taillights.

 

[patrick112390]

Ok - Maybe I'm nuts, but I need to tint the 3 windows (side and rear) of my pickup truck cap, the blacker the better. It for security, not style.

But I don't want it to look like junk, it is my work truck.

Can I use spray paint? Has anyone done it successfully? Other ideas? I tired DIY window film and it failed on me.

Call me crazy!

you could try using some rc car spray tint... blacked out my taillights...for a year.. wore off now so use it on the INSIDE..

 

[V8BoatBuilder]

Think a local store would have these specialty paints?

 

[patrick112390]

Think a local store would have these specialty paints?

i doubt itt.. but i can bet your local hobby store would-mine did

 

[JoeCool6972]

If you don't need to see out of the windows, then spray paint would work. Just put several coats on the inside of the windows.

 

[MONMIX]

cant afford a tint shop?
I have 5% over the factory tint and you literally CAN NOT see in the back of my explorer.

 

[V8BoatBuilder]

cant afford a tint shop?
I have 5% over the factory tint and you literally CAN NOT see in the back of my explorer.

Could, but didn't want to if possible. I went to the shop, all set with checkbook out, but the guy was a complete ripoff artist, jacked the price up from what he quoted on the phone and started making lots of excuses.

It's also a $150 alum cap on a $2500 truck... so I didn't want to spend $$ on it.

But - I found a solution and it works awesome, and looks OK. It was household black "privacy" window tint from Home Depot, for $16 of tint + $4 of application solution, the truck looks 10x better and you can't see in the windows, day or night, but I can still see out (barely). It is "peel-and-cling" and rather thick, so it went on super easy.

I'll post some photos of it.

 

[BrianDye]

hmm never heard of that, lets see some pics lol