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Old 03-27-2014, 09:40 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by humfrz View Post
HOWEVER, I have difficulty believing that the amount of metal in a tint job, compared to the amount of metal in your car, would significantly affect the operation of the TPMS.
It's not necessarily the amount of metal that matters, but whether the metal is configured so that it blocks the signal from reaching the receiver. You can turn a room into a Faraday cage with copper nanotubes suspended in a thin coat of paint. If this tinting film has conductive metallic particles spread through it evenly, it could be dense enough to interfere with radio signals like that paint does.
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