I worked at Auto Tint for about 4 years. it was a pretty neat job. i had gotten my truck tinted, wrecked it 5 days later, brought in my new one and the owner thought my girlfriend was hot. he offered me a job.

Couple things about window tinting.
- the stuff from the auto parts store is complete crap. it is too thin, creases too easy, and will not last but a fortnight.
- Even though you think you are good, you will do a horrible job. It is way trickier that you would think.
- you will get what you pay for. Quality tint costs a fricking ton. you are looking at $200-400 wholsale for a 100 ft roll. The good stuff is thick, has good pressure sensitive adhesive, will not break down or turn purple in one year. Plus usually you will get a lifetime or pert long warranty, it is well worth it. Plus it will not look like a epileptic monkey put it on the car.
- It is an art. It takes a good amount of skill and mostly experience to put it on correctly.

This is where I found out that American cars are complete pieces of shit, at least interior wise. Stupid plastic fasteners, having to remove the rear seats just to get the back deck out, piece of shit rear window triangle lights that melt, crappy screws, C clips, etc…. In a honda you needed a 10mm and a 5/16 socket to get everything out, simple.

The trick to keeping the tint from peeling on windows that roll up and down was to make sure the film went under the weatherstripping. Sometimes you could just fold it down, on American cars you sometimes had to remove the door panel, what a nightmare.

Rear windows is what it all comes down to. The sleek curves and convexes are tough. Film is not stretchy at all. back in the day you had to cut strips along the defroster lines, now they heat shrink the film. It takes bunches of practice with a paint stripping gun. One little messup that creases the film can set you back an hour worth of work.

You must make sure the glass is clean, but not only the glass, the surrounding window gaskets, fluffy upholstery and such. So think about doing a 95 monte carlo that has seen nothing but dirt roads? We soaked the crap out of the insides of cars flushing the crap out with water.

So here is the dirty info. The tinter is gonna be all over your car, in the back seat, trunk, front seat, moving seats forward and such. We get to see every dirty little bit and what you are trying to hide. I wave been waist deep in dog hair, fast food wrappers, child seats, and all sorts of unmentionables. Found a bunch of incest porn in a truck, dildoes, joints, french fries, you get the picture. Clean your car out if you don’t want us to know you are a peterast or slob.