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 probably intended as a tear off.

Make sure you have a freshly snapped stainless steel blade, or a new razor blade.

I'd cut it right at the point the film is raised off the glass as it meets the sticker. As long as your cuts are clean and all the way through, tearing the film shouldn't be an issue. I'd be worried how badly the sticker is stuck and if you can get that off without using a blade.

 If you are getting debris visible from the outside while installing something is wrong. Perhaps better lighting in the shop because you can usually tell right away unless it's very small. Plus since there is some degree of contamination in every job, it should be inspected and any dust pressed down to make it invisible before it leaves the shop.

32 minutes ago, stacy36 said:

How do you get a  illegal tint inspected around here.

Have it redone legally I suppose.

Great idea dude. 

There really isn't anything we do normally that would cause scratches like that.

Once glass has tint on it, stuff like scratches we didn't notice before stand out.

Tuna boat. Surprised any are still on the road.

Yep, it's doable.

Sure it can. 

Well, if you are determined, the best way to start is buy some inexpensive film to practice with. Tint your own car, your friends and family etc and get an idea what it's like. Maybe you'll have a knack for it, and practice more until you are confident enough to start charging. Maybe you wont have a knack for it and tear up some cars along the way and realized you dodged a bullet.

You should really get some experience under your belt before just opening a tint shop.

This is a difficult trade and good tinters rarely make good businessmen and visa versa. There's a lot to learn about this trade and you don't want to be learning on customers' cars as you can do plenty of damage as you go.

I'd suggest getting a job as a helper in a tint shop and develop your skills for a long while before even thinking about going out on your own. Just my opinion.

By the way, it's nice to see you, hope you've been well.  

Whenever asked to match, I'd tell them it will not match. You can't even match if you knew the film since it varies from roll to roll and even from side to side on the same piece of film. Just say you can get the shade close but there will always be a slight color difference. 

As far as the dual pane, I'm probably wrong, but I think they are so small the risk of thermal fracture is low. 

That diamond plate is sick. How long did it take?

Exactly. This is really complicated by their non functional website. Started with trying to fix my email after they changed the way their email thing works. Finally got a reply from tech support that was as if they didn't even read what I said. Tried to clarify and no response at all.

Fine. I'm going with another company.

Now a whole new set of problems come.

Gotta tell you working on this stuff is unnerving. It's not something I have to do often, so I'm no expert.

You get ominous warnings like, This will take around 96 hours to reflect update etc. 

I wont know if I screwed up for 4 days.  

This should happen in a few days, there's a chance some posts that happen during the transfer may be lost, I'm not sure.

Hey guys, we may or may not have the site be unreachable for a short time. Some settings have to be updated and it may affect the site, but hopefully not. 

31 minutes ago, Paragon said:

It was tinted in October and I noticed it shortly after that. I honestly can’t tell if they’re on the inside or out.

I'd show the tinter and ask if that's in the film.

The film is on the inside by the way, that could be the film's adhesive was marred during installation by pushing a bubble off to the side after it had set up a little.

33 minutes ago, Paragon said:

I had my windows ceramic coated and I thought maybe it was coating so I polished the windows really well just last week. I tried everything to get them off.

I don't know what you mean by ceramic coating. It may be a ceramic tint film you had installed.

Were you polishing on the outside? What did you use? You may have caused some light haze or scratching.

Don't use any polish on the inside, it's a polyester film and can be easily damaged.

Did you have it tinted recently or did it come like that?

Can you tell which surface they are on? 

The second set of pics I can't really tell what's going on there. It almost looks like some air was moved after the film had tacked up already. 

That looks like a metal rub. Before the windows were tinted, something metal that was riding in the car rubbed against the window, leaving a metallic stain on the glass. A lot of cars have them, but they aren't very noticeable until the windows get tinted.

More on metal rubs here: https://www.tintdude.com/care.html/

Welcome to the forum. Some might infer from the name that it is an American product and may be confused.

It is from Korea and named America?

Sounds legit.

It depends a lot on what kind of flat you are talking about. Is it mostly residential or big commercial jobs? Are you the one selling the work/giving estimates etc as well? Are you with anybody as a helper or the guy in charge?

1 hour ago, Whyme said:

But I need a 35 % in a lower end tint for regular customers .

Put your Johnson in there.