The Sun-Gard Automotive Advantage

High Performance and Dyed Tints

Technology continues to improve in the window film industry. Better adhesives, better SCR coatings and better performing window film products. High performance (a.k.a. metallized or HP) automotive films have quickly become many installers tint of choice in the last few years, here are the differences.

Dyed Auto Tints

Dyed auto tints are films with dye in the film and/or in the adhesive. They come with a minimum standard three-year warranty. Courage offers Sun-Gard® Shadow as a quality-dyed film that comes with a lifetime warranty, All other films are HP.

High Performance Tints

HP tints have applied metal coatings to better protect the film from color change and other decaying effects caused by the sun. The advantages of the metal layer are that the film will last longer (HP films come with a lifetime warranty) and it stops more of the sun's heat. For example a dyed 20% tint stops approximately 39% of the heat while it's HP counterpart stops approximately 53%.

Courage offers Sun-Gard's PerformX Slate, PerformX Charcoal, PerformX Bronze, and Endurance

For information on all Sun-Gard automotive films, please see automotive films.

Automotive Window Film Adhesives

Sun-Gard is the only window film in the industry that offers the professional automotive installer two types of adhesives. You choose what's best for you. Pressure Sensitive (or PS) is a tacky to the touch adhesive that works by physically sticking to the glass immediately. P.S. is relatively soft and tacky by nature and is a more "aggressive" adhesive.

Detackified Pressure Sensitive adhesives (or DPS) have a thin polymer coating that has been applied over the tacky P.S. to make the film tack free for easier handling. This polymer coating dissolves in the mounting solution, which is washed and squeegeed away to expose the underlying PS adhesive, which then sticks to the glass. DPS is also relatively soft and tacky by nature and is less "aggressive" than PS.
There is no right or wrong adhesive. You choose what is right for you.

Miscellaneous

- It is less expensive per square foot to buy full rolls versus partial rolls. Courage offers free slitting on full rolls. Buy a 36" or 60" and have it custom cut. When you buy a 24"x100" and 36"x100" roll of the same product and shading, you pay the 60" price.

- Special width sizes of 12" are sometimes available. Call for availability.

- All films have a scratch resistant coating (SCR)

- PerformX Bronze have the DPS adhesive, all other auto films have a tacky PS adhesive.

- Special vertical cuts on full rolls (i.e. 60"x100 cut to 18", 20" & 22') - no charge on full rolls.

- All automotive films are available in 18", 20", 24", 36" & 60". All films are available standard 100' lengths and partial roll lengths of 25' & 50'. For full information see the Auto Availability Chart.