Marc,

That was a pretty good treatise on the subject of tint and solar engery.
 May I add that now there is a ceramic based tint out on the market. I'm
not saying it's new, it's just I have  only recently heard of it through
my son, who is a tint guy and keeps up with such stuff. Apparently it
functions somewhat as a heatsink to help prevent some of that heat
buildup inside the vehicle. Evidently it absorbs and holds the energy
right at the tint and it doesn't get transmitted to the interior of the
vehicle to heat it up. Of course it's not 100% effective, but anything
would help I'm sure.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver