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Thanks!
Yeah, I got incredibly lucky. My grandparents only took it to the grocery store and back, and maybe for a trip to the other small town 45 miles away for a good steak and lobster dinner once a year. My parents or I came and picked them up if they were going any further than that.
Like I said in my intro post, driving a big ol' GM wasn't really what I'd planned on...but now that I've had it for two years, I'm kind of attached :)
Yeah, I got incredibly lucky. My grandparents only took it to the grocery store and back, and maybe for a trip to the other small town 45 miles away for a good steak and lobster dinner once a year. My parents or I came and picked them up if they were going any further than that.
Like I said in my intro post, driving a big ol' GM wasn't really what I'd planned on...but now that I've had it for two years, I'm kind of attached :)
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Great looking ride! I'm planning on getting deer whistlers here soon because I've heard they work. Also with me always driving on back roads, I don't really want to risk it any further but I'm planning on putting mine up in my bottom grill where, hopefully, people won't notice them as much as they would up by the headlights
Let me know if you find some deer whistles that are successful and a subtle place to mount them. I do a lot of backroads driving, too, so if they work, I'm all for it. My dad used to have some really sleek silver ones on one of our old Subarus that seemed to do something (never got hit by anything in that car, at least), but they didn't have the weird tilt adjustment these ones have. Wonder if the angle makes a difference?
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I've been debating window tint for a while. Any suggestions on brand or what color/type would go with the white paint job? I forget what Montana'* laws are regarding the darkness of the tint, but there'* some good places in town to get it installed in any case.
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Since the door pillars on the outside are black where they meet the window, the darker the tint, the better it would probably look. I've seen white Bonnevilles with dark tint on the window and it looks stunning, mostly because it ties all the windows together and then gives stark contrast to the white paint.
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Oooh, yeah, I'm all for that. You're right about the black door beams making the black tinting look really nice. Thanks for the visual!
Looks like the state maximum tint (on just the back and rear-side windows, boo) is 14%, and on the front-side windows is 24%. On the other hand, you don't have to display stickers showing what tint you've got. There'* a bunch of tuners around here with all-around tint I can guarantee you is darker than 24%... but they probably get pulled over more often than I do, even when I had my fight team'* logo filling the rear window
Seems you can also get medical exemptions for darker tint levels, which could work in my favor -- I have an old eye injury that gets worse when it'* bright. Wonder if my eye doctor would write me a prescription for 5% all-around limo tint? Can't hurt to ask.
If anyone'* curious, here'* a list of the tint laws by state:
http://www.tintcenter.com/laws/
Looks like the state maximum tint (on just the back and rear-side windows, boo) is 14%, and on the front-side windows is 24%. On the other hand, you don't have to display stickers showing what tint you've got. There'* a bunch of tuners around here with all-around tint I can guarantee you is darker than 24%... but they probably get pulled over more often than I do, even when I had my fight team'* logo filling the rear window
Seems you can also get medical exemptions for darker tint levels, which could work in my favor -- I have an old eye injury that gets worse when it'* bright. Wonder if my eye doctor would write me a prescription for 5% all-around limo tint? Can't hurt to ask.
If anyone'* curious, here'* a list of the tint laws by state:
http://www.tintcenter.com/laws/
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