TQtinting

I’ve got 5% on my windshield and honestly it’s great. I drop my kids off for school in the morning and no one can even tell I just got done slamming down a dirty 30 for breakfast. With or without little billy, whatever. 

I try and do everything in steps and in line.

get all the film on the vehicle, cut it all, shrink it all, then ill lay everything on my board then pop panels, clean glass, then do my installs but it either takes forever or something happens. Light gaps, creases.... I just run into stupid things non stop. dog hair or something else. some sort of learning curve struggle. Also I've tried to get more organized but still find myself looking for misplaced tools or running laps around the car for whatever reason.

IDK if the guy has an account on here but a shop 40 miles north of me (very popular) is named Ace of Shades and in my opinion that's probably one of the best names I've ever seen for a shop. Of course uses an ace of spades or just the spade symbol on all of his advertising and what not.

I think that's my whole problem... I get to stressed out trying to move fast and it just doesn't work out for me. I just see guys complain about it take 4 hours to do a car and im over here taking almost 8 on every car. 

I've never got anyone that wants to hang out but if I had a dollar for everytime I heard  "I already got the tint"

And not once have I ever scored any of those jobs lol.  " I'm only allowed to use film supplied from my distributor."

If you can comment on there I would just explain what JH said that it meters differently and give a simple apology. That way if people see that review they'll see it was a misunderstanding. People like that are just out to cry and complain anyways.

How many times have you almost threw in the towel on tinting or what certain situations have made you want to quit doing it? I haven't touched anything in 2 months because it was kicking my ass so bad. I was actually getting pretty damn good at it! but the simplest car would take me 8 hours to complete. I just cannot get faster at it.... I've tried nailing down an exact routine like people say. got pretty fast at doing things like shrinking roll ups and what not.... Yet still struggle. I personally struggle with getting stressed out and worked up but even on good days took forever. What almost made you guys quit? how long until you started getting faster?

I just became an electrical apprentice so tinting will prob never be full time for me. But its been a bad ass good money making side hustle I'd rather not give up. Our "professional" shop in town is so horrible I get their old customers all the time because they've heard of my work. But is it worth it if it stresses you to the max and takes all day when I should be spending time with my family instead?

Sorry to rant but who else has been here? I'm assuming almost everyone.

Hopefully I get some more texts from this number but so far this what’s happened lol. I get a text atleast once a week from this number and it says the same name and cars every time. 

Just got done trying dotrix for the first time..... Now that I know what I’m doing it’ll be a lot easier next time  

Thanks for all the input guys! Got all my patterns cuts just have to shrink and install tomorrow morning. 

Im ready for war... bring it on ya damn nazi! Lol

1 minute ago, jh812 said:

I'll pray for ya homey.

 it’s the wife’s dads car and he knows it’s gonna prob be a super challenge since I’ve never done one. So on the bright side no pressure at all. I however would really like to kick this things ass. 

 one like = one prayer. Help me baby Jesus. 

Took the weekend off and still somehow managed to tint something.

my own truck full windshield 35% and did the flip out windows as well 

Just for fun.....

these are a couple of the trucks I use to run. 

Some guy fell asleep at the wheel about 6am and drove thru the front wall of the local donut shop

semi roll over we worked driver walked away barely scratched fully loaded with iPods and all kinds of crazy electronics. 

2 hours ago, jh812 said:

Not much to show we did 80% all the way around on it. F**k those curved windows

 

Oh yeah that looks like a pain! Those are good trucks tho. 

20 minutes ago, jh812 said:

Off to do a wrecker

Post a pic if you get the chance! Miss my wreckin’ days sometimes. See a lot of crazy chit running one of those for a living. 

Ya know those horrible old pop out/wing windows you hear about on the older Chevy trucks? If you’re gonna do it might as well do it right.

had to drill the screws out and get new hardware worth it though.  

I use to hate the bulldozer but it’s one of my favorite tools for squeegee on BG anymore. Super quick. 

Spent the evening tearing apart the 4x4 system on the truck.... New transfer case motor it is.

Got about 2 hours of sleep.  glad it’s a short week. 

I see a lot of guys mention their projects on here.... this is mine.

6 minutes ago, TintDude said:

 

 

Sounds too much like work.  

I know  getting ready to give the entire truck a complete overhaul. Great old truck, low miles, but needs some serious tlc. Going to be awesome when it’s done though

Just got done fighting a set of brake drums on a 98’ K2500. They were so corroded idk how I even got them off by far the worst set of  drums I’ve ever pulled. Got my workout in for the day! 

Passenger side started taking the entire brake setup along with it. 

5 hours ago, Jerrybigbird said:

Boilermaker for 12 years once upon a time

Cool! Bryan Steam located in Peru, Indiana where I’m at. Use to be family owned but is now owned by Burnham Holdings.  Units that we build are pretty nice. Not a bad get up, but our specific facility and everything that comes with it it’s def not a place I want to make a life long career. But it’s been good for the past couple of years.