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Turbo Tint franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Significant turnover Item 19 disclosed

Turbo Tint is an automotive franchise with an initial investment ranging from $299,510 to $432,600.

Everything below is free, read straight off Turbo Tint's registered filing, with where the numbers land against automotive peers. Weighing Turbo Tint against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Turbo Tint's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Minnesota Dept. of Commerce — CARDS franchise registrations · filing 36350-202604-08 — check it yourself. See every other Minnesota-registered franchise.

How much does a Turbo Tint franchise make?

Turbo Tint is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $556,849 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every automotive brand that discloses earnings in the Automotive franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Turbo Tint franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Turbo Tint's 7% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Turbo Tint franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Turbo Tint franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $556,849 of revenue, a 7% royalty alone is about $38,979 a year before any other cost.

Turbo Tint lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Turbo Tint's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Turbo Tint closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Turbo Tint will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Turbo Tint's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a automotive of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Turbo Tint's latest tables show significant franchisee turnover. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 17.4%, against a automotive median of 2.5% — worse than the category. Net franchised outlets moved +1 to 24 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Turbo Tint?

Turbo Tint's franchise is offered by Moran Family of Brands, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at MN CARDS; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it. The same franchisor files separate FDDs for other brands, which is worth knowing — sibling brands share a franchise-support organization but disclose their own numbers:

Automotive franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Turbo Tint is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

Turbo Tint franchise — frequently asked