Our Story

Colton Vayda has been working since he was 8 years old. Literally. He ran the mop and broom at his dad's CrossFit gym in Peoria, rode his bike to his first “real job” at Ace Hardware at 15, and picked up every shift he could find. Work ethic wasn't something he was taught. It was just who he was.

When Colton turned 16, his parents gave him an old BMW. He wanted the windows tinted. His mom said no. So he learned to do it himself.

He started with YouTube videos, then tracked down a mentor — a family member who owned a tint shop — and got to work. His first real tints were on his own car and his friends' cars, out of the family garage in Verrado. He was a senior in high school.

The work was good. Word got around. What started as a side hustle quietly became a real business called White Tanks Window Tint. When the Verrado HOA had other ideas about a tint operation running out of a residential garage, Colton didn't slow down. He bought a trailer and built out a mobile tint shop so he could keep serving customers.

When Colton moved to ASU, he kept driving back to Buckeye several times a week to take care of customers. He couldn't walk away from something he had built with his own hands.

Then came auto glass. Colton enrolled at the Auto Glass Technical Institute in Atascadero, California, one of the most respected programs in the industry. The school's owner, Lee, became his mentor and shaped the way Colton approaches every install to this day.

He left ASU and bought a home in Waddell with a 1,200 square foot RV garage purpose-built for his growing business. White Tanks Window Tint became White Tanks Auto Glass, a full service shop handling everything from rock chip repairs to full windshield replacements and premium ceramic tinting.

Then he went further. Colton invested in professional ADAS calibration equipment, the kind most small shops never bother with because of the cost. He did it because he wanted to be able to help everyone, and because he refuses to send a customer somewhere else when he can do the job better himself. That investment is now becoming its own business: Copper State Calibrations, a B2B calibration service for other auto glass shops in the Valley.