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Wrap and tint: same vehicle, same visit.

People assume it's one or the other. It isn't — they cover different surfaces, and doing both at once is cheaper than doing either one twice.

They don't overlap

A vehicle wrap goes on painted body panels. Window tint goes on the inside of the glass. A full wrap doesn't touch your windows, and film doesn't touch your paint — so there's no conflict, no compromise, and no reason to choose.

In fact, they finish each other. A branded vehicle with mismatched glass — factory privacy glass in the back, clear glass up front — looks half-done. Uniform tint pulls the whole thing together.

Why one visit costs less

Split across two shops, you pay twice for the same overhead: two drop-offs, two rounds of scheduling, two bays, two full prep cycles, and two trips out of your week. Bundled, the vehicle is already in the shop and already prepped. That's a real saving on the production side, which is why the tint is discounted when you book it with a wrap.

For a fleet, multiply that by every vehicle. Fleet rollouts usually go a few vehicles at a time anyway — each batch gets wrapped and tinted in the same pass.

The one thing to plan around: perforated graphics

Some wrap designs put see-through perforated vinyl on the rear glass — the graphic reads from outside while the driver can still see out. If your design does that, that pane gets graphics instead of film. Perf and tint on the same window means paying for film you're about to cover and cutting visibility twice over.

So the plan gets made before anything is cut: which windows get film, which get graphics, and which stay clear. It's a five-minute conversation at quoting time that saves an awkward one later.

Order of operations

Wrap first, then tint, is the usual sequence — the body work is the messier, longer job, and the glass gets its final clean before film goes on. Either way it happens in one stay, and you pick the vehicle up finished.

Doing them at different times?

That's fine too. The discount follows the vehicle: if we wrapped it, come back for tint and it still applies; if we tinted it and you're ready to brand it, same deal. One visit is cheapest and easiest, but a split schedule is better than skipping the tint.

Ready? Ask for a quote on both and you'll see the wrap, the tint, and the bundle discount itemized on one sheet.

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