Omar Window Tints

About Omar Window Tints

Omar Window Tints is a busy car window tinting shop on 6th Street in Elizabeth, in a corner of Union County thick with tint shops, and it has held its own by getting the ordinary things right. Customers single out two: the staff explains the options before any film goes on, and the work is quick, with cars in and out rather than kept for a day. There is a comfortable waiting room for people who would rather stay while it is done. The menu runs the usual range, from lighter inspection-minded shades down to a dark 5 percent limo look, with ceramic film for drivers who want real heat rejection rather than just darker glass, and windshield strips and sunroofs handled as readily as side windows. The number on a film is where most confusion starts, and it is worth having explained before anything is cut. That percentage describes what passes through the film rather than what it holds back, so a 5 percent film admits five percent of the light and stops everything else, which is why it reads nearly black from the curb. The part that catches people is that the film's number does not act alone: on a truck or SUV whose rear glass already comes tinted from the factory, a 20 percent film over it produces a combined result far darker than 20 percent. That is how a driver ends up with a rear window they cannot see out of at night, and how strict New Jersey's rule actually is on the front glass is the other half of the conversation. Open six days plus a short Sunday, Omar keeps the kind of hours that suit fitting a tint job around work, minutes from Routes 1 and 9 and the center of Elizabeth. Honest explanations, fair pricing and fast, tidy work are what a neighborhood tint shop is finally judged on, and that is the ground Omar has held in a market with no shortage of alternatives.