Worthington, Ohio · Window tint
Tint for Worthington.
Bay on Trabue Road.
The outerbelt in between.
The bay is on the west side, across the outerbelt from Worthington. Below: the route down, the film, and the price — settled before you make the drive.
Ceramic Grade A
Same price at 5% as at 35%. Darkness is free.
Starting price for a regular-size vehicle. Larger vehicles are quoted. All around means every window except the windshield.
The drive from Worthington
Two routes down from the north side. Both end on Trabue Road, inside the outerbelt.
On at High Street or 315, west along the top of the outerbelt, down the west leg, off on the near side of Hilliard. The bay is on Trabue Road, just inside 270.
South on 315, cut over at Grandview, pick up Trabue Road where it starts off Dublin Road. Trabue then runs west the whole way to the door. One road, no merges — but it is surface street, and surface street means lights.
Check your map application at the hour you plan to leave. Installation time depends on the vehicle: a two-door with clean glass and a three-row carrying old film baked onto the defroster grid are not the same job. Ask when you book and we will give you the time for your car.
Installations run on a booked schedule. Call before you drive down and we will confirm a bay is open for your vehicle.
5220 Trabue Road, Suite D, Columbus, OH 43228
Worthington has no tint law
It cannot. Ohio sets the rule — 50% on the front side windows — and the number is the same in Worthington as it is in Columbus, Dublin or Cleveland.
City lines do not change the limit. It is a meter at the window and a number on the ticket, measured the same way anywhere in Ohio. The whole rule, short:
- Windshield70%± 3
- Windshield top stripUnregulated
- Front side windows50%± 3
- Rear side windowsAny darkness
- Rear windowAny darkness
The strip along the top of the windshield 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. The visor band is permitted; that is the code, not a favour. No red, no yellow, nothing reflective or mirrored, on any window. Ohio also requires the VLT label on the film, lower left, between the film and the glass. We fit it on every car.
What the drive buys
Tint is glue and dust. Everything about the bay is built around that.
Every speck that lands between the film and the glass stays there for the life of the car, in the same spot, every time the sun hits it. So: indoor bay, doors shut, floor wet, and no rim work running alongside open glass.
The other half is Ohio itself. Film has to cure, and curing is heat and time. A climate-controlled bay supplies both in February as well as in August, so the appointment does not move because the forecast did. Leave the windows up while the film cures — every window cracked early is an edge lifting.
Edges you cannot feel. Run your thumb down the door glass when you collect the car.
What it costs
One film, one published number, and the size it covers.
- Ceramic Grade AOur most-specified film. Genuine heat rejection, no signal interference.From $299Regular-size vehicle
All around means every window except the windshield.
Darkness is free. A 5% and a 35% off the same roll cost the same, because you are paying for the film, not the shade.
Old film on the car is a removal job of its own. Purple, bubbling, or glued to a rear defroster grid — say so on the phone. It changes the day, and it can change the number.
Two things worth knowing
Your back windows aren’t tinted.
The dark glass in the back of an SUV is factory privacy glass. It is dyed all the way through, and it does very little about heat — which is why the third row still cooks in July with the air conditioning running. Film over it is what changes the temperature, not the look. Ohio sets no darkness limit behind the front seats, provided the vehicle has both outside mirrors.
The window you want is the one Ohio caps.
Driving south in the morning puts the sun on the driver’s door glass the whole way down. That is the window Ohio holds at 50%, plus or minus 3, and it is the one that gets written up. Fifty is not nothing — a ceramic 50 on the front doors is a measurable difference on that arm and on the wheel. It is not limo, and we do not fit below the limit.
Call before you make the drive.
Tell us what you drive and whether it already carries film. We will give you the number for your vehicle, how long it will be in the bay, and the next open appointment.
5220 Trabue Road, Suite D, Columbus, OH 43228· Trabue Road, inside the 270 outerbelt