Toddorbert

I noticed that before I had my car tinted that the autodimming feature would click in faster than my eyes could be affected by bright lights at night. Now that my car is tinted it takes a while to work and this is especially annoying since the lights can be blinding from the side mirrors. Anyone else notice this or does anyone have a way to increase the sensitivity? TIA

David

The ambient light sensor faces out the windshield and the rear light sensor now reads through the tinted rear window.

I was wondering if you put a little round dot of tint over the ambient light sensor if it would correct for the rear glass tint and "fix" the problem.

Toddorbert

If your solution works, do you think I could make the rear sensor more sensitive by adding a darker tint to the front sensor?

Ted K

is tinted. Putting more tint over the sensor would just reduce it further.

Monster1pt8TQ

Have the front windows tinted....

David

Well, you'd think it would! Depends I guess on the sensitivity ranges...

Ted K

bottom, and faces the rear window. It controls all mirrors' dimming. If you darken your rear window with tint, less light strikes the sensor, thereby making it LESS sensitive. By additing tint over the sensor also, you reduce it even further. For example: If you have 20% tint on your rear window, only 20% of the normal light strikes the sensor, thereby reducing it's sensitivity by near 80%. If you now put an additional tint over the sensor of 20%, you reduce the light hitting the sensor by ANOTHER 80% (only 20% of the light goes through). Using statistics, 20% multiplied by 20% equals 4%. Therefore, if you tint both, only 4% of the light shining on the rear window strikes the sensor. You have made your auto dimming mirrors virtually useless.