Ideas for my roof and hood?
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Ok. here is Blazer carbon fiber vinyl, take 2. Learned a lot from take 1!
If you get the vinyl I did ($30 for 5x10 ft) there are some challenges.
Prep work, I had lots of scratches from 150 grit sanding that never came through, I bet I could have gone rougher, maybe even 80 grit.
Recommend wet sanding with real wetsanding paper and a board. At times I also used a DA sander.
What did come through was a circular area that was sanded down to the metal. If you have one of those, consider some kind of filler. Otherwise, sand & go. If you use a primer use plenty of newspaper masking, including the ww wipers and the grill.
Detach the ww nozzles and then squeeze them from underneath and push them up to reduce chance of breaking the plastic "spring." Rem the antenna unscrews.
Recommend you cut vinyl to size and then remove all the backing and lay in one go.
You need two people minimum.
One person pulls while the other sweeps. Keep the pull low, almost touching the hood. Don't rush the sweep, get just a couple inches at a time.
Don't get ahead of yourself in one section, try to keep the front line a smooth-ish semicircle
Keep a water spritzer on hand and use it.
Get two squeegies, maybe two heat guns. Probably a hair dryer would work ok.
Sweep out all the air bubbles before securing the edges.
The edges are done by heating, then pulling/stretching while sweeping (2 people)
If you get a crease you have to lift and heat and sweep.
If you get a bubble you can't sweep out, use a needle and rub it out with the flat side of a felt squeegie.
Do not leave your heat gun absent-mindedly pointing at the vinyl.
If you get the vinyl I did ($30 for 5x10 ft) there are some challenges.
Prep work, I had lots of scratches from 150 grit sanding that never came through, I bet I could have gone rougher, maybe even 80 grit.
Recommend wet sanding with real wetsanding paper and a board. At times I also used a DA sander.
What did come through was a circular area that was sanded down to the metal. If you have one of those, consider some kind of filler. Otherwise, sand & go. If you use a primer use plenty of newspaper masking, including the ww wipers and the grill.
Detach the ww nozzles and then squeeze them from underneath and push them up to reduce chance of breaking the plastic "spring." Rem the antenna unscrews.
Recommend you cut vinyl to size and then remove all the backing and lay in one go.
You need two people minimum.
One person pulls while the other sweeps. Keep the pull low, almost touching the hood. Don't rush the sweep, get just a couple inches at a time.
Don't get ahead of yourself in one section, try to keep the front line a smooth-ish semicircle
Keep a water spritzer on hand and use it.
Get two squeegies, maybe two heat guns. Probably a hair dryer would work ok.
Sweep out all the air bubbles before securing the edges.
The edges are done by heating, then pulling/stretching while sweeping (2 people)
If you get a crease you have to lift and heat and sweep.
If you get a bubble you can't sweep out, use a needle and rub it out with the flat side of a felt squeegie.
Do not leave your heat gun absent-mindedly pointing at the vinyl.
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Second roll came. It is horrible. Brittle. I had to give up and rip it off, taking pieces of primer and paint with it! If you order this brand (60"x120" 4d sold by TC bunny) hope you get the kind where the vinyl is wrapped around the tube, not inside it. Whoever manufactures the latter version needs to go to a re-education camp.
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