Tint installers, please help! Is this damage from the installer?

[oneshot]

Hello professional tint installers and everyone else, I need your upmost help in solving this problem. I just got my brand new car tinted and after a few days I noticed this on my driver side door panel. Is this damage caused by the tint installer? Heat damage? I had ceramic tint installed. I should’ve done a better job looking at every little detail on my car after the work but I was preoccupied. What could this be? Please help! The cars only 2 weeks old.

 

 

Edited yesterday at 06:40 AM by oneshot

[Bham]

If that is a piece of plastic, it really looks like heat gun damage.   

Edited yesterday at 12:39 PM by Bham

[pbalentine]

Looks like the side was heated up to fix imperfections. You really only want to heat 2-3 seconds at time, not 30 seconds like above.

[Dano]

Was that a new car?

[doctor4766]

What vehicle is it?

 

Surely heat damage would be apparent immediately after seeing the car, I mean that looks like it would be obvious and not exactly hideable? 

Can we get a picture from a little further back?

Edited 18 hours ago by doctor4766

[Dano]

The applique looks spent,but the rubber doesn't look melted and I can't see any deep tooling marks in the film. So far I'm with Doc, leaning towards prior damage. 

[Dano]

On 9/27/2024 at 6:39 AM, Bham said:

If that is a piece of plastic, it really looks like heat gun damage.   

That looks like a vinyl applique, like on an old Mazda style econo car.