Attempted to tint my front windows today. It was a miserable failure! I'm normally pretty handy, I'm blaming the cheap tint I bought. I need 50% tint to be legal and the only tint I could find for sale was some cheap no-name ebay crap. Three attempts and my last one still had several winkles, so I pulled it off. Tried to tint myself becasue Im in a pretty rural area and there is no pro tinting within at least 30 mile radius, have to go look further away I guess lol!
But the day was not all lost, I added under hood LEDs with a contact switch today, here are some crappy cell phone pics. The engine bay would be a total black hole without the lights, looks better in real life than in the pics, plenty of light to have a "look see", or check fluids.
Cost of this project was under 20 bucks, the two LEDS were $13, the switch was $5 for two, but you only need one. Some wire (10 feet maybe) and couple of crimp connectors I already had on hand.
Switch:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251426403955?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
LED's:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281118567994?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
Contact switch is mounted in the tab with the hole on the inner lip of the fender above the battery. The switch fit that location like it was made to. So no drilling needed, just sand a small amount of paint off around the hole to make a good ground contact.