window tint software

[Mike.Smith]

guarded secret i rekon 🙂

[David Arch]

To be honest, if you are any good at tinting you could do a car in half the time by hand than by messing about with sometimes inaccurate computer cut shapes.

Each car can vary slightly from year to year and this is not reflected in the software, as an example I was tinting a corsa rear window but it had a big spoiler in the way and getting in to shrink it was a nightmare. So I got another corsa in from a friend same style but a year older, shrunk the film on that window and then tried to fit it to the other car, it wouldn’t go, tried 3 times with no luck, spent 2 hours slowly messing about on the car with the spoiler to get it on.

This sort of problem will not be shown on the software.

Dave

[Henry Barker]

I’ve been tinting cars a few years been on a couple of courses…never heard of software to help…but I too would be sceptical. Do a few vehicles it goes really fast, buy a 30m roll and work out what you make per roll?

The only tools you need are a “good” adjustable hotair gun, stainless steel snapblades, a good silikon plough type squeegee, and a lamp to have in the car (not halogen) unless you like the smell of melting plastic. something like a Goliath (4x 9w lowenergy builderslamp) and your away.

Learn how to dry shrink and back windows are done even quicker.

Most film suppliers run courses, which pay for themselves over and over, we use Johnson Films.

[Mike.Smith]

not to give away my business plan 😆 but i was not thinking about fitting the films. only selling them.
but if they are not cut well..
lots of returns i fear 🙄

[Henry Barker]

Not sure how it is in the UK..

Here we buy a roll of good quality Johnson Film 610mm or 508mm wide for around £200, you can do an average of 6 vehicles from a 30m roll at a minimum here of £250 + vat per vehicle, once you know what you are doing it goes fast, and you make money.

I would much rather have rolls here of 5-6%, 13%, 22% and 43%, that I can sell and use on most vehicles than cut to fit and have stuff sitting here waiting for the customer with the right vehicle or a model I don’t yet have in my software.

Car accessory shops sell ready made kits here for popular makes here like Volvo 🙂 but the film quality is crap and changes colour after a couple of years.

I do it as a little extra service to my customers, lots of vans and estate cars.

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi Mike

Here a couple websites, could not see any prices?

http://www.computercut.com/main.php/pro … ow_tinting

http://www.tinttek.com

hope this helps

Patrick

[Mike.Smith]

cool