The guy I used had the same problem, so he took off the back of the closet
(it is just thin pressboard stapled on), took out the windows, did the
tinting, and left the panel for me to replace. I was grateful for the
professional job, but getting the pressboard back on was tricky because
there is very little clearance back there, too little to use a staple gun or
hammer. I wound up drilling little holes in the edge of the panel, and using
my fingers to push in small nails with thumb-tack like heads that I found at
the hardware store.

George

 > Yesterday I took my van to a professional window-tinting shop.  This shop
> has a great reputation and the owner is supposedly the 1998 East
> coast tint
> champion and has been voted the best tinter in Virginia for the
> last 5 years
> (I don't know who gives out these awards).  After looking at my westy and
> the sliding windows, he turned down the job.  This guy was such a
> perfectionist, and he said the only way he would do the job is if the side
> window and the back window besides the closet was removed.  Otherwise, he
> couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't peel off since he couldn't
> tint past the
> vertial felt strip on the side windows.  Even when I told him to
> do the best
> that he could without having to take the windows off, he said he had a
> reputation to protect and he wouldn't do it unless he could do it perfect.
> The closet window was simply to restricted for him to get to in
> the way that
> he needed to "do it right".
>
> The guy was definitely good, and his work is flawless.  However, he is too
> much of a perfectionist.  Time to find a new tinter.  I don't
> really want to
> pay for the windows to be removed just to please this guy, when I can live
> with the little imperfections that he was concerned about.
>
> Steve
>
> 89 Westy
>