When the sunny season starts, talk on car tints picks up. Even though tint films have a long tradition, there are still a lot of questions and dilemmas. You probably didn’t know that the first car tints were installed in late nineteen-seventies, when one entrepreneurial installer came up with the idea to try architectural films on his car. Since then, several technologies of purpose-built automotive glass films have come and gone.



The most popular choice of automotive glass films currently are aluminium or metal alloy films. These films come in a wide variety of shades, from transparent and light, to the very darkest. They are the most frequently used type due to the value for money they offer, reflected in the degree of heat protection allowing for a temperature decrease of up to 15oC in summer heat.

According to Llumar classification, this category encompasses Comfort series, which comprises 1st class films, i.e. the latest production generation in this technology. Warranty for this type of film is 10 years.

This group also encompasses Esprit series tints, which belong to the previous production generation, produced using metal-based technology. Although Esprit films provide a lower heat protection than Llumar Comfort tints, they still have better properties than tints of other manufacturers using two, some even three, generations older technologies in the production of their films. Warranty for Esprit films is 7 years.

However, the highest achievement in car tints are nanoceramic films, providing most efficient heat protection yet; heat protection is the key parameter of film quality.

Nanoceramic films first appeared on the Serbian market at the end of 2014 in Black Glass, as the exclusive tint installer for this type of film. According to Llumar classification, the nanoceramic-based films comprise the Avantgarde series, the series that comes with the longest warranty period of 12 years.

When you visit Black Glass, you can test these 3 series of Llumar films yourself, using a special lamp heating up glass surfaces protected by these films.