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Pre-Cut Window Tint Kit Installation Tips: |
Although Rvinyl provides a
comprehensive installation brochure with your kit, below are some of the
procedures you can expect to follow to properly install this product.
Please take the time to read them and understand the procedure prior to
purchasing your kit as we do not accept returns on this product line.
Step 1: Front and Back Window Preparation
You will need to remove any parts of your vehicle which are in contact
with the glass surface area to aid in the installation procedure.
You may need to remove inner plastic pillars, tape back the felt window
draft guard or even remove the door panel trim to have good clear access
to your window. If you want professional results, you will need to take
the time to prepare your vehicle.
Step 2: Rear Windshield Window Preparation
You may need to remove the rear deck trim or third brake light housing
to have good clear access to the rear window and allow for proper heat
shrinking and excess water removal. The rear window is the most
difficult window to tint. Take the time to prepare this area as this is
where most mistakes will occur.
Step 3: Clean your windows
Simple, the cleaner the window the cleaner the installation. Most
vehicles have a felt edge which helps align the glass as it is rolled up
and down. When wet, this felt will leave hairs on the glass which will
be highly visible when the installed precut film dries. To reduce these
hairs, roll the window all the way down and cover the felt with tape.
Masking tape works, duct tape is even better as it tends to be water
repellant. Roll the window up about 1/2 inch from the top.
Spray the window with a soapy water solution, 10 drops of quality dish
soap per pint. With a new razor (old razors may scratch the glass) and
well soaked glass clean glass with a razor as if it were a squeegee.
Spray the glass again and with a shop towel in one continuous stroke
wipe the glass edge and frame. With your clean window squeegee, squeegee
from one side to the other side of the window. Clean the squeegee
with a new shop towel and repeat to the bottom. Your window should now
be clean and dry. Flush the window from the top down, keep the edge of
the glass dry as the squeegee can not clean the top portion. Flush the
middle and finish by flushing the sides.
Step 4: Preparing the soapy slip solution:
Using distilled water, a spray bottle and baby shampoo
Step 5: Preparing, Positioning and applying the precut front and back
window tint:
Roll down your glass about 1/2 inch from the window felt. With the
window down and the soapy slip solution applied. Remove the liner from
the precut window tint, apply the soapy slip solution to the film. Be
sure there is enough solution on the film and the glass to insure the
film will not adhere prematurely before it is positioned. Lay the film
near the bottom of the wet glass and slide it down into position as you
lay the top of the precut film kit into position. Squeegee from the
anchor point, this will keep the film from sliding while you work from
the middle out. You may now roll up the window and squeegee the bottom
out. Blot away and excess water with a paper towel (we recommend
wrapping the hard card with a paper towel for this procedure).
As you are squeegeeing, (on roll up windows) do the top first, work down
avoiding the edges until last, stroke downward. Spray the film and
squeegee it again, more firmly this time, to remove more water from
under the film.
Note: Shifting roll down windows make it difficult to properly
position the film during installation, often leading to gaps in
coverage. This can be easily avoided by marking the edges of the glass
on the outside with a dry erase marker and using the marks as a guide
during installation. Just roll the window all the way up, and make a 1
or 2 inch mark on each side of the roll down where the felt meets the
glass. Often the shifting window will erase one of your marks, or cover
it completely, so just align the film using the surviving mark
Step 6: Preparing, Positioning and applying the precut rear
windshield window tint:
Spray the inside of the glass with soapy water and scrub it with a
white abrasive dish sponge. Please pay particular attention to the edges
and the dotted matrix areas. Squeegee the glass dry and wipe the dotted
edge with a paper towel to lift up the black residue the ceramic edge
gives off, (This will help the film to stick to the dots.) and spray the
window again, this time squeegee very carefully to get all of the water
off. Now flush the window from the top down, avoiding the very top and
the dots, if the window has them, to prevent dirt from bleeding down.
To lay in the precut tint, roll it up and reverse the liner and roll it
out onto the prepared inner surface. Squeegee it out, etc. Fingers or
creases at the top and bottom will appear. Use the below technique to
remove fingers.
You must use a heat gun
on high setting, a hair dryer will not work. You are only shrinking the
finger itself, just pass the heat gun over the finger quickly until you
see it distort slightly, then smooth it out. If you spend just a moment
too long over the finger it will burn, or shrink unevenly. The trick is
not to crease the film when you smooth it, so the first time use a
rolled up paper towel to smooth the finger down to keep the film wet
against the glass, otherwise larger fingers will bind and crease if you
use the application card first, repeat the process with a grey
application card.
Note: the film will only shrink properly if the
fingers are aligned with the grain of the film. As you unroll film from
side to side the proper grain direction is up and down, i.e. If you have
a window 45" wide horizontally and 18" vertically, using a 20" roll, the
fingers need to point up and down toward the straight factory cut edge.
Fingers always need to be moved toward the factory edge. Squeegee a
horizontal anchor onto the glass to anchor the middle and sides moving
all the excess to vertical fingers.
Step 7: My car has matrix dots, what to do?
Most newer cars have a black ceramic trimming the edge of the rear
window. Sometimes this ceramic has a straight edge and sometimes it has
a dotted edge. Usually this dotted edge is only 1/4 inch wide or so. The
window film usually wont stick to these dots flush, so there will be a
pocket of air trimming the glass. On most cars this isn't very
noticeable. The problem is that some cars have a six inch wide band of
dots on the upper edge of the back window. If that is the case, the
pocket of air created is so large and uneven, that it is very
unattractive.
Some ways to deal with this are to apply vinyl to the dotted area or
leave the wide band of dots untinted, then after the film has dried for
3 days, mask off the dotted area with masking tape and paper, then paint
the area with flat black enamel spray paint. Let the paint dry for a
while and then remove the masking. |
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