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Xpel XR+ Ceramic Window Film Tint -- My Rivian R1S Cabin Temperature Readings
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Update after ceramic.
These are the metrics, the first block is just the temperatures from the iPhone, and the app or the cabin, the second block is the mesuraments of car surfaces, the third one is glass measurements.
Observations:
These are the metrics, the first block is just the temperatures from the iPhone, and the app or the cabin, the second block is the mesuraments of car surfaces, the third one is glass measurements.
Observations:
- For the second test, Ceramic W(Ceramic Window) the day was clearly hotter than the first day, temp was around 95 instead of 93 and there was 0 breeze today.
- I believe it almost took 5 minutes the first day for the car app to show 80F and today it was about 3 minute, so I think I started this second test with not all surfaces at similar temperatures as the first one, you can see that the original has better 2PM temps, and those should have been the same to compare an identical starting point
- The interior surfaces of the car improved a lot with ceramic, but, as expected, the windshield with ceramic was a lot hotter than the one without it, but it did not let that heat come in.
- One of the mesuraments taken at the center of back seat was worse with ceramic+w than the original, I realized that the back air vents were pointing away from the point I was measuring, which yesterday they were directly pointing at it.
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vehicle looks stunning with the tints! I'm having a tough time understanding your conclusions - if you have an thus far with collecting data.
From a interior temp/comfort perspective is the tinting worth it?
From a interior temp/comfort perspective is the tinting worth it?
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Short story long, definitely! Do it!
Tuesday at 93F with a little breeze without the ceramic on and after one hour into the sun I got in the car and recorded all temps before turning the air on. I did the same thing today with temps at 95F and no breeze.
The big difference is that yesterday, after one hour in the sun, the seats felt burning and I started sweating right away, just a quick phone recording of all surfaces felt like being a trukey in Thanksgiving. Today the car felt really hot, but not remotely close to yesterday's oven, and I did not sweat at all. I felt it was a worthy investment. Will see if the roof also is Saturday.
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One area that is almost imperative to do if you can is the dashboard: The temp on the center dash was almost 30 degrees cooler with the ceramic, so doing all car and not doing the windshield is not a good idea IMO
| center dash | |||
| Original | Ceramic W | Ceramic W+R | |
| 2PM after car on at 70 for 10 minutes | 160 | 148 | |
| 2:20PM with air off (grocery shop simulation) | 169 | 162 | |
| 3:00PM (one hour stop simularion) | 197 | 168 | |
| 3:05PM (5 minute with air all on and driving at 25 milesper hour) | 168 | 136 | |
| 3:10PM( 5 minute parking with recirculate on) | 147 | 116 |
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No ceramic:
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Nicely done. Thanks for posting!
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@caiudalmau Just an observation, your trunk area looks just like mine. The top piece is sticking out and also touching the bottom trunk piece. Are you going to get that corrected?
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I don't have data to share but, subjectively, the XR+ on sides and windshield is absolutely 100% worth it. I'm still debating on whether to do the roof. Haven't really felt the need for it yet but we're just now expecting our first 100 degree temps of the summer.
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I am not following you. Can you mark on a picture what you mean?
My trunk door was pretty unaligned when I got the car and I was going to submit a ticket, but then I had to leave the car since the top panel loose and hitting the roof. So they fixed that. I still see a couple of things here and there not perfectly aligned, so I might submit a ticket, but I am not sure the one you are pointing at.
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Agree on that, the improvement just with windshield and windows is really evident. I wish I had been able to do only front of the car first to compare that.
Now I will add the roof just to be able to measure it and will change $25 for people to see the results. I need to start recovering some of this investment money
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Nice work! Car looks smashing! Have you considered making the passenger door exterior white areas black? It would be a bit like the LRRR floating roof. Cheers.No ceramic:
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Sevn86
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You can see in the smaller red circle that your tail gate is misaligned and the long red oval I marked shows how there is no room between your top tailgate and bottom tailgate. Looks at the silver one. It has spacing where I marked it. My R1S is just like yours. I’m taking it back to get it fixed.
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