I get there yesterday to pick up my car, and he’s not done when I get there. He is fitting the rear glass film before installing it. They do this on the outside, and spend a fair amount of time heat shrinking it with its backing still on until they get it to fit right. Then they remove it, put it on a vertical surface, peel the backing away, wet the film down, re-apply the backing, roll the whole thing up, and take the rolled up tube into the car and unroll it onto the back glass.
This was after he had to get in there, and scrub the glass with one cleaner, then squeegee that dry, then wet it down with something else, and squeegee that dry too. Then finally, they wet it down and roll out that film, while separating the backing one side at a time. And that is followed up with more squeegee action, until the thing becomes one with the glass it’s attached to…..all while laying on his back, arched over the rear seat delete and LJK.
Then he still got in there with a heat gun, and again with a razor knife to trim the excess.
You couldn’t pay me to do that sht.
But as with all horror stories that come from leaving your car with a shop,…I got mine too. ( Mine’s just not as bad as some others)
When I get there, dude tells me the battery‘s dead. But not to worry, he has a jump box. I open the trunk for him. In casual conversation after that, He asks me How much I had in my audio system. The hood is up, but the trunk was closed, it was obvious that Dude had been looking for the battery, and he couldn’t find my hidden trunk release to open the trunk.
Why do ya spose my battery was dead when the only reason he needed the battery was to crack the front windows down?
Why Dude was letting the LJK do his thing while he was working,…and that battery went dead on him.
There we’re SO many things I coulda told dude NOT to do with this car, but I didn’t think about it after I put the car in his work bay and left him the key.
I coulda told him:
Do not leave the key in the run position for a long period of time as you will run the risk of overheating jy ignition driver circuit.
Be careful how many times you “ key on” the switch, as each time you do, you’ll dump fuel into the engine.
The LJK is a power hungry little SOB. Running the car audio system without a battery charger, or running engine will drain that battery to dead fairly quick.
If you open the trunk, it has to be closed carefully, as just letting the lid fall will cause a chip when the gasket compresses too far.
I didn’t tell him none of that, because I figured that all he’d need to do with the key, was switch it on once to roll the windows down once, and roll them up once. And because I didn’t,……
I get 3 outta 5 windows tinted, a dead battery, probably some fouled oil and a paint chip. I watched as he let the trunk lid fall, but by the time he let it go, it was too late to say anything.
My fault though,…I shoulda spent a minute talking to the guy yestready.
But since the hood was open when I got there….
The final add-on to add even more confusion..