Sarasota Automotive

For more than two decades, Tint and Audio Express’s staffers have rolled up to driveways throughout the Fort Myers area to help vehicles hide what’s stashed in their back seats with tinted windows. In addition to the UV-ray-blocking film, which staffers can apply to windows on cars, boats, houses, and zeppelins, the mobile shop applies films to home windows to protect them during hurricanes. They can also affix front bumpers with a clear film, which invisibly wards off dings and scratches. Car audio equipment including satellite radios, iPod equipment, and subwoofers ensures that no one will be able to perform an a cappella rendition of Cats on your next road trip, and the techs can head indoors to install custom home-theater systems for enhanced movie nights.

At King’s Auto Spa, technicians use soft cloths, steam cleaners, and Meguiar’s Gold Wax to restore cars to showroom shine. Water thrums against grubby vehicular underbodies, and vacuums purr across carpets in the shop. The teams use hot wax and triple-foam polish on tired paint jobs, leaving rides looking good even on grainy security-camera footage of them driving over the town’s most popular sandcastles. Since air quality in the cab can be one of the most important elements of any trip, the technicians also wield air fresheners and ozone-treatment units designed to kill mold and mildew.