Car Tinting Help

[Neil Davey]

First you need tint which can be bought from a motor factors such as Halfords or an independant (usually better) 1 make is called Defender. We use an American tint and buy in rolls 150′ x 60″.

Cut a piece of tint roughly the size of the window and spray the outside of the glass with soapy water and place the tint on it ensuring you have tint right way round. Spray SW on front of tint and squeegie out then trim the tint to fit, be precise, if it helps put a small inspection light inside car to help you see where to trim. Use a stainless steel blade as they won’t mark the glass.

If the window has a dot matrix around the edge cut to just overlap it.

Clean, clean and clean again the inside of the window to be tinted and
peel off the clear liner from the tint while spraying with soapy water.

Spray your fingers with water and without touching the adhesive side too much pick the tint off the outside and apply inside and squeegie the water out.

You need to cut it oversize at the bottom so it goes below the door rubber so it doesn’t get caught winding window up and down.

We usually file the top edge flush with window edge and usually remove door panels etc.

And thats it. Tell customer not to open the window for 3 / 4 days to allow it to cure.

Back windows a little more tricky as we heat shrink to fit the curve to allow a 1 piece with no joins but you may find it easier to use 2 / 3 strips and hide the joins on the heater lines.

Happy tinting

Neil 😀

[Nathan]

Thanks Neil. So when cutting the oversize part of the tint are you pulling the tint away from the bodywork of the car.

Thanks
Nathan

[graficxpress]

Could someone point me in the right direction of where to buy the right tools for tinting with, I quite fancy having a go. I have spoken to Johnsons window films but all they wanted to do was flog me a course for £1000+ and said that they wouldn’t sell the tools or film to anyone who hadn’t done a course with them 😕

Cheers

James

[DARREN]

Hi there,

Hexis will sell the tools for about £200.00, they do good window film too.

Darren

[graficxpress]

what tools do you get for £200, have you got a phone number for them please?

Cheers

James

[David Rowland]

hi. Sunstrips and front drivers window, always have stayed clear of mucking around with that window as the legality.

Anyone else think it is wrong to put tints on window?

[L J.]

quote graficxpress:

Could someone point me in the right direction of where to buy the right tools for tinting with, I quite fancy having a go. I have spoken to Johnsons window films but all they wanted to do was flog me a course for £1000+ and said that they wouldn’t sell the tools or film to anyone who hadn’t done a course with them 😕

Cheers

James

They won’t get many customers at that rate then!
L J

[Neil Davey]

You only need basic tools to start with. Squeegees, knife, plenty of lint free paper, spray bottle from B&Q (£8.99), hot air gun.

Warn customers about sun strips that the car may fail the MoT as by law your not supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off (sorry couldn’t resist saying that) you can’t have anything in the drivers line of vision.

Also, you cannot tint front door glass, if you do it could lead to the owner getting a £30 fine and having to remove the tint.

Cheers Neil 😀