Price list · Columbus, Ohio · July 2026
Most shops make you call.
Here are the numbers.
The reason nobody around here posts a price is that they want to hear you first — what you drive, how you ask, whether you sound like you’ll pay it. Then they quote you. We’d rather you knew before you dialled. Every number the shop has a real answer for is on this page. The ones we don’t have say call, and say why.
Why this page is unusual
A quote you can’t check isn’t a price. It’s a guess about you.
Call ten shops in this town and ask what tint costs. Ten times you get “depends on the car, bring it by.” And it does depend on the car — a Bronco with old purple film baked on the back glass is not a Civic. But that is not why they won’t give you a number. They won’t give you a number because a number can be compared, and because the number they say out loud can move once they’ve seen what you drove up in.
We are not going to pretend that is a service. If you have to drive across town to find out whether you can afford something, the shop has already taken an hour of your Saturday before it’s earned a dollar.
So here is everything. Some of it is an exact number. Some of it is a range, because a range is the truth for that job and a single number would be a lie with more confidence. Where a figure is our estimate and not the shop’s final word, it is marked Est.— we are not dressing an estimate up as a price.
And four things on our own service list have no price here at all. They’re at the bottom, with the reason. Call the shop and Ameer picks up — not a call centre, not a form that emails you back Tuesday. The man who runs the bay, telling you what your car costs.
Window tint
$300 puts ceramic on every window but the windshield.
| Film | All around | Heat | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon | $200Est. — confirm w/ shop | Cuts some | No purple, no bubbles. Cuts glare and holds its colour. |
| Ceramic Grade A | $300Our price | Cuts more | The one most people leave with. Real heat rejection, no signal interference. |
| Ceramic Grade A+ | $400Est. — confirm w/ shop | Cuts the most | The most heat we can block. Worth it if you park outside all summer. |
Dark costs nothing extra
Price hangs off the film, not the shade. A 5% and a 35% of the same film are the same $300 job — same roll, same hours, same glass. Darkness is not the hard part, so you don’t pay for it. Pick the shade you want to look at and let the film decide the money. If someone quotes you more for 5% than for 35%, ask what the extra hundred dollars buys. Then listen to the answer.
What “all around” means
All around means every window except the windshield.The windshield is its own job with its own number, and Ohio has its own rule up there — call for that one. Front doors have to let 50% of the light through in this state, whatever film you pick. That is the law, we say it before you pay, and no signature moves it. The actual law →
Colour-change wraps
From $2,000, and the range on each line is real — here is exactly what moves you inside it.
| Vehicle | Full wrap |
|---|---|
| Coupe | $2,000–$2,800 |
| Sedan | $2,200–$3,000 |
| SUV | $2,400–$3,400 |
| Truck | $2,600–$3,600 |
| Van | $2,800–$4,000 |
| Exotic / sportsQuoted per car — the curves decide the hours. | Call |
Every line confirmed by the shop
Exotic and sports cars say Call, and that is an answer, not a dodge. A car built out of curves takes the hours the curves demand. We are not going to print a number that is wrong for your car and then argue about it with you in the bay.
A colour change covers what you can see from outside the car — edges and returns included. Door jambs are not wrapped.Ask any shop quoting you whether the jambs and the hood shut are in their number. Usually they are not, including on the quote you got down the street — and if nobody told you that, you were going to find out with the door open in your own driveway.
Nothing on this page is a stock photo of somebody else’s work. When a wrap comes out of our bay, it goes here.
Why two identical cars quote differently
- The carBigger panels, more film, more hours. A sedan and an SUV are not the same job.
- The filmGloss, satin, matte, carbon, colour-shift — they cost different money and they behave differently on a curve.
- How far the colour movesThis is the one nobody tells you. Wrapping a white car black means covering every edge and every return, or you see white at the gaps. Wrapping a black car grey hides its own edges. Same car, same film, more work.
That last one is worth another minute, because we have never seen anyone explain it. Take two identical sedans, same film, same installer, same week. One is white going black. One is black going grey. The white car has to be covered everywhere a person can see — every edge, every return, the lip inside the door, the strip under the trunk lid — because anywhere the film stops, white shows up at the gap and your eye finds it instantly. The black car hides its own edges. Miss a millimetre and nobody will ever know. Same car, same film, materially more work on one of them. That is why the shop asks what colour your car is before it says a number, and it is the only reason.
Paint protection film
Four packages, four numbers. Almost everybody takes the full front.
| Package | Price | What gets film | Straight talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partial front | $1,400 | Bumper, the leading strip of the hood and fenders, mirrors. | The cheap way to stop chips. It leaves a line across your hood where the film ends. |
| Full front | $1,999 | Whole bumper, whole hood, whole fenders, mirrors, headlights. | The one most people take. No line across the hood, and it covers the panels that actually get hit. |
| Extended front | $2,350 | Full front, plus A-pillars, the leading edge of the roof, rockers and door cups. | For people who put real miles on it. The rockers are where the sandblasting happens. |
| Full vehicle | $5,000 | Every painted panel on the car. | Usually a lease return, a garage car, or a colour that would be a nightmare to match. |
Everything that chips your paint came off a tire in front of you at seventy. It lands on the bumper, the front foot of the hood, the mirrors and the lights — behind the front axle, almost nothing happens. That is why the full front is the one people take: the six hundred dollars over the partial buys the rest of the hood and no cut line across the middle of it. A Rivian is not a Civic, though. Bigger car, more film, more hours — these are the starting numbers, so call with your year and model and get the number for your car instead of for a category. The long version →
Interior detailing
Two numbers, and which one is yours depends on what’s living in the car.
- Interior detail$200
- Interior detail$320
Published price · confirm w/ shop
A commuter sedan that needs a wipe-down and an extraction is the $200 car. A three-row with a dog, two kids and four summers of crumbs welded into the seat rails is the $320 car. Seats and carpet get shampooed and hot-water extracted, not sprayed and wiped. Door jambs count as interior, because you look at them every time you get in.
Call, describe the car honestly, and you’ll know which number it is before you drive across town. And two things we’ll say straight: a stain baked into carpet for four summers may lighten and not leave, and smoke smell lives in the headliner and the cabin filter. Anyone promising to remove that with a $40 bomb is guessing. Detailing, in full →
Four things we won’t put a number on
We do all four. We just don’t have an honest price to print, so we’re not going to print one.
- Chrome deleteCallIt depends on how much chrome your car left the factory with and where it hides. Window surrounds, mirror caps, badges, grille, bumper trim, the strip along the rocker — a loaded truck is a different afternoon than blacking out two badges. Tell us the year and the trim level and you get a number on the phone.
- Ceramic coatingCallThe coating, the prep and the paint decide the price, and the prep is most of it. Putting a coating over swirls locks the swirls in under something that is meant to last years. So the honest quote on a used car usually has correction hours in it, and nobody can count those without standing in front of the paint.
- Paint correctionCallThis is the one that cannot be priced over the internet by anyone, including the shops that pretend to. It is hours under a light. How many depends on how deep the scratches go, how much clear coat is left to work with, and how far you actually want to take it. That is a conversation in front of the car, not a package.
- Rim & caliper paintingCallDepends on the wheel, whether the tires come off, whether the calipers come off the car, and what shape the finish is in. Curb rash is not the same job as a straight colour change, and a five-spoke is not the same job as a mesh.
We could invent numbers for those four this afternoon. Every shop posting “starting at $199” knows the real one arrives later, at the counter, after you’ve already driven over and handed over the keys. That is not a price list, it’s bait. If we can’t stand behind a number on the phone, the number doesn’t go on the website.
Now you know. Bring the car.
Have the year, make, model and colour ready — that’s everything Ameer needs to turn a range on this page into your number.
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