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Installed sunfilms on my Toyota Innova Crysta & Skoda Slavia

21st March 2025, 20:11 by Kanad Kalasur

The 85% film has an IRR of 65% while 75% film has IRR of 95% with both films having a TSER of 52% and 55%. There is a 10 year warranty against issues like peeling off, cracking, bubbling etc.

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After bearing the brunt of the last summer and this one already, took the plunge and went the sunfilm way. Especially for my Slavia, the sloping front and rear glasses let in a lot of heat and so did the sunfilm. On my Crysta, since the car came with heat rejection glass from factory things were much better there. After doing some research on whats available in the market and where this originated from, I reached out to the company in China I had earlier purchased PPF from. Have had a good experience with them from the last five years for three of my cars and bikes and they also manufacture sunfilm. They offered their nano ceramic series with VLT as high as 85%. So chose VLT85% for the front windshield and 75% for the sides. The 85% film has an IRR of 65% while 75% film has IRR of 95% with both films having a TSER of 52% and 55%. There is a 10 year warranty against issues like peeling off, cracking, bubbling etc.

Got someone home to install and the job was done neat. The Slavia earlier had Garware Smoke VLT 70 on the sides which did a good job of offering some privacy but with respect to heat rejection it was poor. This was removed and Slavia got 85% VLT front and 75% for sides and rear. Innova got 75% on sides and 85% for rear windshield while the front was left untouched. Some pictures:

OEM Heat rejection + VLT75% on the Innova Crysta:

Typical traffic police view from front which doesnt really show signs of a tinted glass:

Side glasses on the Slavia at a brighter spot compared to above:

Traffic police view again:

Front windshield film side by side with raw view:

Initial feel of the Sunfilm is good - The sun no longer burns on the skin even though the warmth can be felt. Had I gone for the VLT50 film on sides and VLT75 at front this would have been much better based on my experience from driving last month in Thailand but this definitely works well for me right now. The AC doesnt have to work hard any more to cool the Slavia. The results on the Crysta are much better though, since it has multiplied the effects of the factory heat rejection glass. Here we hardly feel the heat of the sun at all which is really good.

Whats really admirable is the sort of heat rejection the VLT85 offers with hardly no reduction in visibiity even at night. If I were in a position to upgrade the headlights of the Slavia, I could have gone for VLT 75 at front. I imported enough film for three of my cars, setting me back by roughly 12k. I didnt really consider options here since either the big brands had metallized films or 3M was very expensive. These sunfilms always come at the risk of traffic police having issues with it(even though people say rules have changed/no one cares about it anymore). With Garware, their adhesive sucks and their ICE cool was with a VLT of 70% so was not something I wanted to get.

As a bonus I also installed the sunfilm myself on the sunroof glass a few days ago just to test the film. This also made a huge difference and I dont have to use the sun blind any more, there is hardly any heat that comes in to the cabin even at 12 noon since the sunroof glass was tinted from factory and that along with the VLT75 film just makes it brilliant.
Factory tint: