Thank you for that very useful info I'll be sure to stay away from the Panaflex. The more you read into brands the more confused you'll get. My recommendation to you is go to your most experienced local shop and use or have them use what they recommend to you, overall a good standing business will take care of you.īut most of all these "brand" companies selling these updated films to customers/dealers is also new with exception of some manny's out there who've had ceramic for years. I think you may be reading into "BRANDS" way to much. Can you guys help with the sanity check here? What am I missing? Thanks. Plus I'm wary of this Panaflex ceramic since I only see limited info for film and company. I'm not so sure - all the specs I've read seem to indicate better performance numbers from the Nano films. The installer thought the PF ceramic does a better job in performance and is more expensive than CXP. However, my local dealer threw me curve by introducing Panaflex Ceramic. CXP looks more grey/charcoal uniformly across all shades. Additionally, I didn't care too much for the colors of CR: 70/60 looks bluish and 40/50 bronze/brown hue. ![]() Crystalline: similar performance specs across the board at 40/50% of price. This time around I was going to use CXP mainly due to cost-to-value ratio vs. So I'm all in on the Nano films (CXP, CR, PS) and had Crystalline on my last car. Not to mention the images below is the rest of Flexfilm's lineup. I have seen it start turning purple around the 10 month mark.3 cars all total all installed by us. Here is Flexfilm Panaflex.top piece is out of the box and bottom piece is little under 3 years. I am sure they will have a "nano" film available at Pep Boys or Walmart soon. Also "nano" just means the particles are smaller.that is it. Just depends on the specific brand in question. However, Photosync is pretty new some people question their numbers because of the lack of outside testing.īefore you read below, keep in mind just because it says Carbon, Ceramic, etc doesn't mean it is any good. The only films that will be on Crystalline performance level will be Huper Optik Ceramic, Huper Optik Drei, and Prestige Photosync. I would also recommend looking into Llumar CTX or Formula One Pinnacle. However, when it comes to performance most Ceramics outperform it and Crystalline is a night/day difference. However, if heat reflection is your priority I think there are other brands that claim to perform better than what 3M claims.CXP is a nano-Carbon film which overall is a good film. After 16 months, it is still as good as new. So I ended up getting Cyrstalline 40 for the side windows and Cyrstalline 70 on the front and rear windshields (I know, big jump from wanting Cyrstalline 90 initially, but somehow that guy talked me into it )Īnyway, so with regards to the 3M Cyrstalline line I, haven't had issues with the tint itself. They said that no one buys it since the shade was too light for people's preference (in the Nashville area at least), so they just don't sell. I initially wanted Cyrstalline 90 on all windows, but none of the shops within a two hour drive of my area carried it. If you can't see the Crystalline at all I'd give it the nod, but it's hard to see any in person comparisons. Spectra has told me that you can still see the 75 "a little bit" and that it's slightly blue. Since my top priority is looks, I'm deciding between Crystalline 90 and Spectra Photosync 75. ![]() I'm doing the whole car, including the windshield. I'm looking to tint and my goal is to get as much heat reduction as I can get while keeping the look of the car 100% OEM.
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