niagaratinting

If you got to look at some thing for decades......

Those blue ones are for flat glass i believe, use a black and white or similar for first pass to get the film flat, then use the soft black rubber cut like a wedge for final pass (contours to glass). Use bulldozer for bottom of back glasses.

I soak the window with castle glass cleaner trapped between the film and old liner material over night, almost always peels of clean.

3m color stable film removes clean at room temperature.

I also use red, blue and crape colored elastics to color code the shades of film, blue for light, crape for med and red for dark. Also slit to varying widths to limit waste.

Had some spare time on my hands. Here is a pic of how I store my rolls of film, there in wooden cabinets (keep dust out) standing on the core plugs which are screwed onto plywood. I also store the patterns of all the model of cars I have tinted (the rolls of used liners can be seen up top, I have approx 1500). Was just wondering what others do.

I would vote the '18 style vw gulf as being the most awkward to get at, very small space to get the film through.

Being a one man show, many years ago I standardized my prices instead of trying to keep track of the window configuration of each car. A pair of doors was $---, as well as, all two door cars had a set price and and all 4 four door cars had a set price. Trucks varied based upon the model configuration. Even though some model are more difficult then others, now a days you can get a 4dr 5 window vehicle up to a 4dr 11 window vehicle it still feels easier to just say "all four door cars are $---". I think customers feel better knowing that they are all paying the same. After 30 years of tinting nothing is really difficult anymore, some vehicles just take a little longer, its really not that much in the grand scale of a career.