skills? steady hand and some agility.
tools? soapy water in spray can. set of plastic squegees, precision craft knife (or RM2 one with new blades ready) and plenty of cloths. Well lighted and clean enviroment. Patience (lots of it)
I tinted my home windows myself.. the results are good but the fact that my home windows are over 20+ years old means that there was some residual dirt which couldn't come off.. so too bad. bumpy here n there but nothing I can do about it. I learnt by spending days sitting at a friend's shop watching him tint car after car...
Anyways,
I would suggest you buy cheap tint (AKA brothers black tint) and practice on your home windows. or some glass lar.
Firstly, buy autosol. use it on the interior glass and grab some newspaper and rub briskly (especially if you had have previous tint on the windows) to remove the adhesive.. Very crucial. You dont' want dust all over, do you? Clean till smooth, use razor blade edge on the window to remove any excess sediment or substrate.
Place tint on the outside glass (you tint inside though) with the removable plastic layer facing you. Soap up the window so that the tint will hold, and then cut to size. Leave some leeway for "accidents" though :)
Then... practice removing and readjusting the tint. Now you're just playing with surface tension and soap.. no adhesive contact yet.
When you're ready, go inside, soap up the window. with the tint still on the windo outside, pick at the tint till you remove the plastic layer.. AS you remove it have someone spray the soap solution IN THE MIDDLE to help remove the plastic painlessly. DO NOT TOUCH this now.. the adhesive goes onto the window and nowhere else. You don't want oil from ur skin on it.
Transfer the tint to the inside window, with the adhesive facing forward...
place as uniformly as you can. readjust till the layer seems in position, and grab you squegee set. Start with the biggest, brush the middle areas out..uniformly and not roughly. Bear in mind if you're rough with it the squegee might wear out and turn into a scratching pad. Remove all visible water bubbles with the squegee. IN the corners, use the thinner squegees to even out the bubbles...continue till done.
When finally done, leave to dry. Do not wind windows down for 2 weeks.
Also, be careful not to scratch your rear defroster lines. Once broken they're gone.............