We are not in Marina del Rey. LA Car Tint is the film desk at Audio MotorSports, 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745. From the Marina take Admiralty or Lincoln to the 405 south, then Avalon — 14.9 miles, thirty to thirty-five minutes. Tint books at 10:00 AM or 12:00 PM. Ask for Nick.
We are not in Marina del Rey. LA Car Tint is the film desk at Audio MotorSports, 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745. From the Marina take Admiralty or Lincoln to the 405 south, then Avalon — 14.9 miles, thirty to thirty-five minutes. Tint books at 10:00 AM or 12:00 PM. Ask for Nick.
Marina del Rey is 14.9 miles from the Avalon pin. Admiralty Way or Lincoln Boulevard toward the 405 south, then Avalon through the South Bay. Thirty to thirty-five minutes. The alternate is Washington east to the 405 south. Either slot works from here. Maps pin 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.
The Marina has a glare problem that inland cities do not: light comes off the water in the basins as well as out of the sky, which means it arrives from below and from the side at angles a visor simply does not cover. Admiralty Way rings the water and you get it all the way round. Salt is the other constant and it is not a figure of speech here — it reaches into door cavities and finds any film edge that was trimmed short. Most cars live in subterranean structures, which helps with heat and does nothing about either of those.
The locked sedan special is a four-door — four doors plus the back window, no windshield, installed: Solar $249 or Solar Ceramic $329. Convertibles and three-row SUVs are quoted per vehicle. The windshield is its own sale, and with glare coming off the water it is worth real consideration here rather than being treated as an add-on. 3M Ceramic IR and Color Stable stay counter quotes. Fronts stay at California 70% VLT.
3M Authorized Dealer, every piece hand-cut on a glass board then fitted to your glass — never cut on the car. This close to salt water the edge is the entire question: film trimmed short of the gasket leaves a margin that salt works into, and once it starts the film lifts. Our micro edge sits to the gasket. On a convertible the rear glass and quarter windows are their own job and get treated that way rather than as sedan work.
From Marina del Rey: convertibles of every kind, leased German and Japanese luxury, boat-tow trucks and large SUVs, and a heavy Tesla presence. Convertibles are the distinctive job and the rear glass on a soft top is a genuinely different problem from a fixed rear window. Tesla glass has its own per-model pricing on a separate site, which is usually the better starting point.
The thing shops get wrong in coastal cities is the edge, and it is worth asking about directly. A perfectly good film, trimmed short of the gasket, will fail here in two years and the shop will tell you it was the salt. It was the trim. The second point is the windshield: glare off the water arrives from below, which is the one angle a visor cannot help with, and that makes a windshield film genuinely more useful here than it is inland.
An edge still sealed at the gasket after two winters of salt air. Glare off the basins that is manageable rather than constant on Admiralty. A cabin that is comfortable even though the car parks underground and the sun is only getting it while you drive. Fronts legal at 70%, and on a convertible a rear window treated as the separate job it is.
Admiralty or Lincoln to the 405 south, then Avalon — 14.9 miles, thirty to thirty-five minutes. Solar $249 or Solar Ceramic $329 on a four-door. Convertibles and three-row SUVs quoted per vehicle. Windshield worth real consideration for glare off the water. Book 10:00 AM or 12:00 PM.
Same bay. Car audio is LA Car Beats at lacarbeats.com — convertibles tuned with the top down and terminals sealed against salt. Vehicle security is LA Car Alarm at lacaralarm.com — subterranean structures and dock parking are both specific risks, and glass-break sensing is the relevant answer. Tesla glass and its pricing live at teslatintla.com.
Tint runs at 10:00 AM or 12:00 PM only. Monday through Saturday, 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM, Sunday closed. On a convertible, call first — the rear glass affects how long the slot needs to be. A Payment Plan is at the counter once the film is quoted. Google shows 4.8 from 654 reviews.
If you are in Marina del Rey, ask where the film edge sits and do not accept salt as an explanation for a failure that was really a trim. Call (310) 513-8800, ask for Nick, and book 10:00 or 12:00. 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.
Marina del Rey is a drive-in. One physical shop at 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A · CA 90745. Call (310) 513-8800.
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Google shows 4.8 from 654 reviews. Yelp shows 4.7 from 777. Real quotes on the Reviews page — we do not invent a "from Marina del Rey" attribution.
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No. There is no Marina del Rey tint shop. LA Car Tint is the film desk inside Audio MotorSports at 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745 — 14.9 miles away, and all film is cut and applied in that bay.
The locked sedan special is four doors plus the back window, no windshield, installed: Solar $249 or Solar Ceramic $329. Convertibles and three-row SUVs are quoted per vehicle.
The salt is the mechanism but the trim is the cause. A perfectly good film cut short of the gasket leaves a margin salt works into, and then it lifts. Ask any shop where the edge sits.
More than it is inland. Glare off the water arrives from below, which is the one angle a visor cannot help with, and that is specifically what a windshield film addresses.
Yes — a soft-top rear window is a genuinely different job from a fixed rear window and gets treated as such rather than as sedan work with different measurements.
The structure helps with heat while parked. It does nothing about glare off the water or about UV while you are driving, which is when the exposure actually happens.
Admiralty Way or Lincoln Boulevard toward the 405 south, then Avalon through the South Bay — thirty to thirty-five minutes. Washington east to the 405 is the alternate.
Tesla glass has its own site with per-model pricing at teslatintla.com, which is usually the better starting point.
Yes. A Payment Plan is available at the counter once the film is quoted. Price first, then decide. Payment Plan is the only name for it.
Car audio, window tint, and vehicle security — plus Harley bagger audio on the AMS Pods side. Body work, wraps, paint protection film, and auto glass are other trades; we'll point you to someone good rather than guess.
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