Dublin, Ohio · 43016 / 43017
Window tint
for Dublin.
Due south on 270.
Historic Dublin and our bay sit on the same line of longitude — 8.4 miles apart as the crow flies, straight down 270’s west leg. Drag the wedge before you get in the car: it shows you the shade, and it shows you where Ohio stops you.
The drive
We are not in Dublin and we are not going to put Dublin on the sign. We are on Trabue Road in 43228 — west side, off the outerbelt. Here is the route, so you can judge the drive for yourself.
From Bridge & High or Bridge Park it is one road: 270’s west leg, straight down. As the crow flies, Historic Dublin and our bay are 8.4 miles apart, almost due north–south.
We won’t quote you minutes — 270 does what it wants at five o’clock. Put Trabue Road in your own map and let it tell you; we don’t control the outerbelt.
Nobody is tinting cars on Bridge Street. Anyone who serves Dublin is driving you somewhere, and this is where we are. Drop the car, take the shuttle, and Ameer will call you when it’s off the racks.
What comes down from Dublin
The cars that come south on 270 skew one way: newer, leased or babied, and carrying more glass than anything built twenty years ago. That changes what we recommend, so we’ll say it out loud.
The roof is the biggest window on the car
A Model Y’s roof is the whole ceiling. Panoramic glass on a Palisade or an X5 is not far behind. Nobody thinks about it in March and everybody thinks about it in August, sitting in a parking lot with the sun straight overhead. Ohio’s limits below are written for the windows you drive by — the windshield, the doors, the back glass. The roof is a comfort call. Ask us about it in March, not in August.
A garage car and a surface-lot car need different film
If your car lives in a Bridge Park garage overnight and a garage at work, tint is about glare on 270 at seven in the morning and keeping your gym bag out of sight. If it bakes all day in a surface lot off Frantz or Emerald Parkway, it’s about heat, and heat is infrared, not darkness. A legal 50% ceramic keeps more heat out of a car than a cheap 20% dyed film. The dark one only looks like it’s working.
Leases, and 270 twice a day
A lot of Dublin metal is leased, and film comes back off at turn-in. Vinyl comes off. Rock chips in the nose don’t. A daily run down 270 is a daily run through gravel off somebody else’s dump truck, and that is the argument for paint protection film on the front end — not the shine, the inspection sheet.
A real car out of our bay — not a stock photo of one that was never in it.
Ohio law doesn’t stop at the Dublin line
Dublin has its own police department. It writes tickets out of the same state code Columbus does, and the Highway Patrol on 270 doesn’t care which suburb you came from.
So there is no Dublin tint rule, no Franklin County tint rule, no “my guy does 20% on the front” rule. There is one number for your front doors and we will tell you before we take your money, not after.
One thing people get wrong in your direction, though: A strip along the top is not regulated at all, as long as it stops at the AS-1 line or five inches down — whichever is closer to the top. Yes, you can have a visor strip.
Read the actual law →- Windshield70%± 3
- Windshield top stripUnregulated
- Front side windows50%± 3
- Rear side windowsAny darkness
- Rear windowAny darkness
What it costs
Ceramic Grade A is $300, all around. All around means every window except the windshield.That is the shop’s real number — not a starting-from number, not a number that grows when you show up in something German.
The other two films
Carbon and Ceramic Grade A+ sit either side of it. Both are marked Est. — confirm w/ shop on the wedge above, and that is not us being coy: Ameer hasn’t signed off on them yet, so treat them as the shape of the ladder, not a quote. The $300is the one we’ll stand behind on the phone today.
What we won’t make up
Paint protection film, ceramic coating, chrome delete and rim painting have no menu price, because a Model Y nose is not a Wrangler nose and pretending otherwise is how you get a bill that doesn’t match the quote. Call for a number on this one. It takes about ninety seconds and Ameer picks up.
Come down from Dublin.
Indoor bay, labelled film, warranty in writing. Call the shop and Ameer answers — not a service, not a form that emails somebody on Tuesday.
5220 Trabue Road, Suite D, Columbus, OH 43228· 8.4 miles due south of Historic Dublin, as the crow flies