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<blockquote data-quote="paintless302" data-source="post: 15617219" data-attributes="member: 74264"><p>Home stretch.</p><p></p><p>Selecting and cutting templates for the film. The car is getting;</p><p></p><p>Full hood</p><p>Headlights</p><p>Mirrors</p><p>A-Pillars</p><p>Partial Roof</p><p>Rear brake inlets</p><p></p><p>The original film (which is in good shape) on the front bumper, side sills, and rear bumper is getting a polish to give it back some optics.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98915[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Making a few passes on the hood before the new film is laid;</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98916[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>New film going on;</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98917[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]98918[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98919[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98920[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98921[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98922[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98923[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Film is laid, and curing. It takes hours and hours for all of the moisture to evaporate from underneath the film, before any coatings can be applied. Curt did the film in 3 pieces on the hood as before, except where's before the 3 pieces were equal size in strips, his method was to lay a large center flanked by thinner outside pieces meeting at the vent recess. This makes the seam all but invisible when viewing off angle.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98924[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98925[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>You can see the seam here running from the bottom right corner of the vent;</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98926[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>On the opposite side, the outer film is not yet laid, making seam pronounced and easy to see;</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98927[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>While waiting on the film to set, the center caps were finished up and re-installed. The center caps turned out to be a giant PITA. Try as we might, we could not get the inlay color to match the GTS blue with any sort of accuracy as we had to lay a base coat first and it was bleeding through and mixing with the blue and clear under bake-out. Masking and doing this process multiple times was ridiculously time intensive, so after a few attempts we decided to change directions. At first I thought about just installing them with the first satin coat;</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]98928[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That seemed a bit uninspired, so Curt suggested we clear just the in-lay to give it some contrast and pop. The end result was perfect, pictures don't really do it justice. Its very subtle, but from a distance the in-lay catches light and reflects, helping the centers not be "lost" on the wheels. It looks very oem+, which is how I like things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paintless302, post: 15617219, member: 74264"] Home stretch. Selecting and cutting templates for the film. The car is getting; Full hood Headlights Mirrors A-Pillars Partial Roof Rear brake inlets The original film (which is in good shape) on the front bumper, side sills, and rear bumper is getting a polish to give it back some optics. [ATTACH=full]98915[/ATTACH] Making a few passes on the hood before the new film is laid; [ATTACH=full]98916[/ATTACH] New film going on; [ATTACH=full]98917[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]98918[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]98919[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]98920[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]98921[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]98922[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]98923[/ATTACH] Film is laid, and curing. It takes hours and hours for all of the moisture to evaporate from underneath the film, before any coatings can be applied. Curt did the film in 3 pieces on the hood as before, except where's before the 3 pieces were equal size in strips, his method was to lay a large center flanked by thinner outside pieces meeting at the vent recess. This makes the seam all but invisible when viewing off angle. [ATTACH=full]98924[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]98925[/ATTACH] You can see the seam here running from the bottom right corner of the vent; [ATTACH=full]98926[/ATTACH] On the opposite side, the outer film is not yet laid, making seam pronounced and easy to see; [ATTACH=full]98927[/ATTACH] While waiting on the film to set, the center caps were finished up and re-installed. The center caps turned out to be a giant PITA. Try as we might, we could not get the inlay color to match the GTS blue with any sort of accuracy as we had to lay a base coat first and it was bleeding through and mixing with the blue and clear under bake-out. Masking and doing this process multiple times was ridiculously time intensive, so after a few attempts we decided to change directions. At first I thought about just installing them with the first satin coat; [ATTACH=full]98928[/ATTACH] That seemed a bit uninspired, so Curt suggested we clear just the in-lay to give it some contrast and pop. The end result was perfect, pictures don't really do it justice. Its very subtle, but from a distance the in-lay catches light and reflects, helping the centers not be "lost" on the wheels. It looks very oem+, which is how I like things. [/QUOTE]
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