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Originally Posted by Andythanh
Hi WT, love the film. I myself really wanted the film installed professionally. I really don't know how difficult it is to install by myself. Don't even try to ask me to TINT a window myself. I'll let the pros do that. lol. But where I live, in boondock counties like Montgomery, TX, I'm really gonna be needing that bra film. I've MURDERED so many flies at night driving on county roads at night. It's crazy how many flies you've killed when you drive for hours in the middle of nowhere late at night.
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Like I said its not to hard to do yourself but mines not 100% perfect but for the saving, I think it looks good, well for what you can see of it. I will say if your planning on doing this yourself set the center of the hood first and then stretch the material to each side of the hood to line things up before pushing all the water out, you will have to stretch it a bit at the curves parts to get it to conform to shape but let it sot a while to let some of the solution dry out and it stick better when you use your squegee(sp). The good part is worst case pull it up and do it again since it take a day or more to set completely. Use small pin to pop large air pockets after the first day or so and push out the air and left over solution (Baby sampoo and water). I may try the tint next since our front windows are rather flat so it should be a little easier and for what they charge for pre-cut tint it may be worth a try too even if I mess that up.
I also gotten a few PM's of removing the large 5.7 emblem and how I did it, I will say my way may not be the best but it worked for me so here goes.
I got some painters tape around the emblem and then got out the hair dryer heated it up (Hot to the touch). Once it was hot enough I twisted the edged with a hard plastic scraper I had and worked it under one end of the emblem. Once you get it under there push it in slowly and lift and this will lift the emblem off (should be able to grab with you fingers and pull it off). Next clean up the extra glue material, I used some WD-40 on a rag after getting as much off with my thumb and fingers. Next I just put some wax back down on the area after removing the painters tape.
The other questions I have been getting was, were I got the door sill protectors. I got them from Sparks too since I had the grill coming from them and was reasonable price and shipping costs.
Oh forgot to mention the pre cleaning process before applying the film, I used claybar to clean up the front end and smooth it all out prior to install. IT did a great job of getting off the rail dust I could feel on the hood and other places.