Devil with bad attitude

G'day all.

Very long time no speak but If I had my time again,(retired) I'd drop auto and only do flat glass.

The whole ball game has shifted substantially where cars once were so simplistic it isn't funny.

What the OP is referring to is spot on and as JC mentioned, it's sad that we an industry have to cover our arses just in case.

FG is always going to be more lucrative and it can take many years before the current crop of window tinters find this out.

Cheers,

Devil

Never do it as it is illegal and jeopardises our car tinting business.

I pick up one next week as my own personal daily driver.

Anything Kia......lovely.

On 25/09/2017 at 1:29 PM, TQtinting said:

There's a shop 30 mins north from me that is known for regularly letting customers watch as he tints their vehicle. A lot of people comment on social media about how cool they thought it was because they had never seen it done before. 

 

Does anyone on here purposely do that? I've had people watch me tint before, I'm not fond of it, but it wasn't that bad. With as many ppl that mention it it almost seems like a selling point on his end. Kind of a way to "enhance" the experience they had and a way to win them over. 

 

Anyone else do this? Idk how much I would like it. Even if it did win over a die hard customer.

Do it all the time and encourage it.

Devil

More the reason to be super selective in what you film these days.

Wtf........ Who designed that?

Who knows but I certainly won't be doing one when there are thousands of other cars out there like Kia that are as easy as pie.

Devil

No neighbours.....50 hectare racing stud high on the hill.

Virtually no west glass at the rear.

Devil

Yes and in some certain light the ULVDS 40 looks like there is nothing there at all.

The glass here was Viridian grey tinted to start with and double glazed but the heat load in the corner master bedroom facing east and south was unreal.

Devil

That's Suntek's Ultravision 40 Tikka......my favourite non shiny film without making the rooms too dark.

I eat tons of it and despite a few recent negative reports on it here on TD, I cast a very critical eye over it yesterday and the film was perfect.

No banding, easy to install with CDF, no curl, dried whilst watching it but only one small niggle.....backing sheet on the 1224 mm wide roll was a little more hard to separate.

915mm wide roll similar but still easy to reverse roll down.

You would not be able to flick it down to the floor from the top, you have to physically unwide it.

Customer loves it and I've just done his home with it in Melbourne's more prestige belt of the city.

Great windows to film, hard rubber to trim to, no dirt, aluminium frames, the Shug panes were a little more demanding as you have to take some time to custom cut the clear silicone blocks out to lift the windows up and down with.

Devil

Finished yesterday a farm house which took a day and a half.

-Devil

WARNING....the heater demister grid is very lightly attached.

God help if any of us have to remove a rear screen that has film on it.....it would be imperative to have a disclaimer written.

Devil

If you wanted to be very harsh, tell him to prove it....he can't.

Bit like a neighbour I've got that whinged to us on our front door that our builder had cracked his concrete drive way....it was tish in actual fact but this guy just wanted to ping some innocent with this.

My builder told him to go jump and nothing further happened.

But the ironic thing was that his very neighbour regularly backed out of his drive and did a pivot turn to drive out of our court using his drive and he owned a big 4wd.

It's just a try on mate....the guy's a dick.

Devil

$450 plus $300 for the roof.

Devil

Cut around the bastard then.

Devil

Got the same car coming in again on Friday.....I'm up for a challenge to see if I can drop this one.

Cheers,

Devil

 

i bet it was the clip that holds the gasket in ? Done it before use magnetic wand to get it out

 

Spot on Tikka.....as I went to pull the gasket up, I could see it was coming with it and as I lifted it out completely, it fell back and down inside.

Devil

Dropped a bloody clip today in the back door of another X5 15 model and I had to remove the entire door trim....what a pain in the arse.

Only saving grace was that I got plentiiiii for the job which made me feel a lot, lot better.

Devil

Cheers T.

What's involved Tikka?

The latest also has spoiler flanks on the sides of the rear screen.

Devil

Who in their right mind would want window tinting there in your climate?

I can't fathom that out!

Devil

Lovely side windows, typical BMW gasket attachment but the front door hides a small screw under the little plastic cover plate where the door lock plunger goes up and down that should be removed.

Just take note carefully where it sits in the home position that this screw marries into.

Rear screen is a dog with an overhanging spoiler which doesn't make your day.

Big vehicle, lots of film, charge plentiiii.

Devil

I would much rather be the tinter who's customer says great job, best tint job I have ever got over wow that was quick.

Me too mate!

I've been recently interviewing some of the so called "better tinters" (they tell me) and every one has come up fail and not come back for a second appraisal.  

One guy told me he was employed to solely do the mob he worked for warranty problems all over town as he was their best.

Well if he was their best, I'd hate to see their worst and yes he claimed he could do umpteen cars a day.

Devil

If there's a way to do them that fast, and that perfect, I'd sure love to know about it.

Me too UT.

Devil

So are all you big number installing guys (by yourself) say you never have a call back for a hair or a bit of dirt or a lift here or there or a finger that has popped up after the job or anything?

I find that hard to believe the full and real story as this tale has 2 sides of which one we never ever hear of the true dark side.

Devil