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Just finished a 2018 Panamera and it took forever after removing the doorpanels/seals. I only know how to bottom load and when I finished the window, I realized the films bottom edge sits above the seal on the front windows. Is that acceptable and if not, what is your approach to this car (top loading, gasket wizard, pull panels but use an extra long pattern?) 

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It’s a horrible design, right? I always prefer bottom loading also. I have to tint 3-5 of these Pieces of S#*! A week and still haven’t found a great way to go about it. I don’t worry about going below the seal on it either, as long as there’s no gap! The seal is quite a bit down there. The biggest concern is that the windows will all be scratched in a couple months. I do not offer warranty on these cars! This morning, I R&R the 2 front on one I did 3 weeks ago. It was scratched really bad already. Just make sure the customer knows that, and be willing to pay you to redo it later. Porsche’s recommendation is not to put tint on the Panamera, as far as I know they do not plan to fix this problem. The last body style also scratched, but these are much worse! 

Who the heck needs 11 windows on a sedan anyway, 6 of them you can’t even see out of when your driving.

Rant over, 

sorry just really hate this car

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This is one car that pulling the panel, doesn’t really help you get a better install or speed up the process.

i just pop the top of the panels back after removal of the torx. It’s just takes a little pressure off this bottom corners, so u can get the film in there without handling creases there

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4 hours ago, Super Dave said:

It’s a horrible design, right? I always prefer bottom loading also. I have to tint 3-5 of these Pieces of S#*! A week and still haven’t found a great way to go about it. I don’t worry about going below the seal on it either, as long as there’s no gap! The seal is quite a bit down there. The biggest concern is that the windows will all be scratched in a couple months. I do not offer warranty on these cars! This morning, I R&R the 2 front on one I did 3 weeks ago. It was scratched really bad already. Just make sure the customer knows that, and be willing to pay you to redo it later. Porsche’s recommendation is not to put tint on the Panamera, as far as I know they do not plan to fix this problem. The last body style also scratched, but these are much worse! 

Who the heck needs 11 windows on a sedan anyway, 6 of them you can’t even see out of when your driving.

Rant over, 

sorry just really hate this car

I work for a Porsche dealership and told them a while back to send out all of the tint on all the panameras cause I hate doing them so much. 11 windows right, like why do you need to see out of all these baby windows. So do you think I can still bottom load without pulling the panels and just leave the edge above the seal?

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Yea Ive tried pulling just the top and getting the seal out or taking the whole panel off but to get the seal out, you need to pull that plastic trim that holds the seal in which is a PITA and takes more time to remove than id care to admit. That's why I was thinking of doing a bottom load without pulling the seal and just leaving the edge above the seal.

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2 hours ago, Super Dave said:

I haven’t found a good way to tint that car yet. But there will be a new tool coming out soon. It’s for bottom loading with the seal in. I’ll let you know how it works on that car as soon as I use it.

Is it from rick wfr???

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