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    Made In The Shade

    4.8 (75 reviews)
    Open 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Services - Made In The Shade

    Window film installation

    Tint application

    Tint removal

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    Tint repair

    Window tinting

    Window treatment installation or replacement

    Motorize existing window treatment

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    20Rear, 50 Front (pic taken on a cloudy day, day of)
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    Richard B.

    Initial Review 10/14/14, 1 day after getting my black 14 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid tinted with 20Rear/50Front, Johnson Window Film. Great overall service and early take is a very high quality job. The film is still curing so I'll update again after the standard 4 day period. Don was great to work with and we did a Q&A exchange via email last week, then scheduled my tint job this past Monday. I work via email heavily so this was convenient to me. We met at a carwash I frequent where he has a presence and he walked me through everything in person, spending about 25 minutes with me when we met. Very detailed and assuring. Picked up the car 2 hours later after he gave it a courtesy carwash and it looked great! See pictures. Don spent another 15 minutes walking me through the care and warranty process should anything happen and personally guaranteed he'd fix anything if it came up. It's been about a day and a half and it is curing quite nicely. I picked Don due to two things, 1) the Yelp reviews and 2) location convenience. 1) He has a ton of good reviews and comparatively, the only outliers are truly that - they clearly standout as wacky or anomalies and every other review was consistent on how great a job he does and how fair/trustworthy he is. I wished the other reviews had more photos for cars stating the tint %, so I'll post mine here. I got 20% in the back and 50% in the front. It came out very clean and sophisticated. 2) Don's business is mobile meaning he can work in a convenient location to me and I could do something instead of wait around for two hours at some location 30 minutes away from where I need to be. Thanks again Don! I highly recommend using him and avoiding any Groupons that sell you cheap film. I evaluated a ton of places and didn't want to spend $500+ since my car isn't that nice (although I think Don also offers the higher quality tint) but also didn't want to get hustled by a $130 offer that just looks like crap. I got my high quality job with reliable tint with no hassle from a licensed contractor. Overall solid! UPDATE 10/23/14 - Still looking good! Did not take any new photos, but the tint looks great, no bubbling as it has fully cured. The dot-matrix looks good too! I highly recommend using this company and his products.

    50% tint (non-metallic / non-ceramic) on front windows only. Factory rear window tint is manufactured in the glass.

    After reading all the reviews, and getting a couple competitive quotes, I chose to have my new truck tinted by Made in the Shade. I chose to go with a rather light 50% tint, because in California, dark tint on your front windows will get you pulled over in a hurry. I didn't want tint film on my back three windows because I felt the factory rear tint was dark enough. My main concern I brought to Made in the Shade was matching the color hue of the windows front to rear. The conflict here is that the rear tint is manufactured in the glass and makes it have more of a brown/black hue, whereas the front UV treated windows are basically green in hue, so unless you go really dark on the front, it's going to look green and clash with the rear tint. At the advice of Don at Made in the Shade, we chose to go with a non-metallic / non-ceramic film. He really impressed me with the time he took on the phone, and then again during our appointment to review with me and give his professional opinion on the different types of tint material he had available, and which one would work best for what I was trying to accomplish. In short, the tint films infused metallic/ceramic material absorb solar energy a bit better, but produce a more reflective / holographic effect on the windows, which can magnify the green hue of the front windows. He shared all the material samples and specifications with me, and even put samples of different types of tint on my front window for comparison before the final job was started. That is taking the time to go above and beyond what is required for such a competitive price! In the end, it is impossible to perfectly color match windows unless they are all tinted with the same type of material, but Made in the Shade was spot on with their advice, and I truly feel we got it as close as possible considering the many variables. I am much happier with this tint job than I was the front window tinting done on my last truck. Made in the Shade is mobile, but they also work with a local detailing shop to perform installs at their garage. Since it was only a few blocks from my office, I opted to meet Don there for the install on my way to work this morning. He arrived early and was prepared to get started right when I parked my vehicle. He had a bit of extra time before his next appointment so we ended up talking shop for a while, and he even hooked me up with some tinted vinyl and other tools to use on another part of my vehicle at no charge. Again, above and beyond what is required or expected! I am very thankful for the experience I had today, and plan to take my wife's car to Made in the Shade for a five window tint job asap. I posted a picture of the work performed on my vehicle today to the Made in the Shade company profile on Yelp, and am very happy with the results. http://s3-media2.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/RSeBK8Dnf9wC6_jUooBSSA/l.jpg

    Kari S.

    Fantastic window tinting job! Don from Made in the Shade came out and gave me a quote the day after I called. I had a number of questions and he was patient and extremely knowledgeable. He gave a me a good quote and was able to install two days later. He did a fabulous job and even cleaned and scraped the outside of the windows for me too! the windows look fantastic and I couldn't be happier with the result! He even began the job at 6:30 am to accommodate my schedule! Call Don...you will not be disappointed.

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    6 years later and multiple more vehicles done. Nothing bad to say great job every single time.

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    Showed up on time, communicated great, educated me on films and did a great job. Also a good price and super friendly.

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    Hope to see you in the line up....

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    Thanx for having the scaffolding set up for the install...

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    This job was set up through emails. Thanx BTW

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    I had 3 windows tinted and two louvered jalousie windows frosted, couldn't be happier, great price and workmanship!!

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    I called Don, he came out the next day and did an awesome job of removing the old film at a reasonable price.

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