need help

January 8, 2004

I got a customer come in today with his ford taurus and the film is peeling from around the edge of the back glass. I fixed the top but I cant seem to do get the bottom. what do you think I should and what do you guys usually do about it?

January 8, 2004

sounds like you'll have to redo it to fix the bottom! I don't think theres an easier way!

January 8, 2004

this is his third time coming back. how can I prevent it from unticking again. could it be the film, we use llumar

January 8, 2004

when you cut your final pattern before install how much film are you leaning outside the black borders?

January 8, 2004

what year is the car?

pierce8468 · January 8, 2004

take some fine gritt sand paper.and sand the dot matrix at the bottom just a little. just be sure not to scratch the glass

January 8, 2004

QUOTE (MDOG @ Dec 31 2003, 06:48 AM)

its normal. you can run your finger around the area on the inside after a couple days and that will make it lay down better. those dots are raised off the glass and the film doesnt like to lay down inbetween the dots.

ford vehicles are the WORST cars with this problem. ask any tinter and they will tell you fords SUCK to tint. mustang, taurus, ford f150, f250 15 passenger van, they all have the dot surround on the glass.

QUOTE (metint the same thread)

and to add to what MD said: the science behind the application of the matrix coating is no more precise than using spray paint; the coating is always uneven from a depth or thickness of coating standpoint. This leads to the film on one side sticking between the dots and the other side does not.

Further exacerbating the issue is the fact that there are dozens of different chemistry's to the matrix coating and at least a dozen players in the business of coating glass, making it absolutely impossible for the coating to be perfect all around and the installer of window film to succeed in a perfect install of film over this coating.

The cutomer needs to understand this...

And just

Live and let live...

January 8, 2004

well its a 2001 ford taurus the real easy back glass im cutting the film right after the dots. I tried adding a little excess but that didnt work. I have tried sanding it but I was thinking about.