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If you have bought a pre cut kit you will not need to follow the steps to cut

the films this will already be done

All preparation work is done on the outside of the glass the film is fitted

internally

Important

All information provided is as in depth as possible, car window tinting is askilled art involving in depth training. Some cars are relatively easy to tint

whilst others are extremely difficult. This shows you steps to tinting a car,

not all cars are the same and will require you to amend the instructions to

suit the car.

These instructions are designed as a guide only, they will in no way give you

the skills to tint vehicles, the only thing that will help you to become skilled

at car window tinting is this guide combined with a lot of practice and some

tinkering for different cars. As they say practice makes perfect!

Notes about the filmCar window tint is designed to be thinner than flat glass films to allow easier

shrinking, please do not mistake this as thinner means lower quality. All our

tints come with 1 year, 5 year or lifetime warranty depending on the film.

You will require:

A sharp knife with a snap off blade, a hard card squeegee, a scrubbie pad

and a spray bottle filled with water and a mix of approx 1tsp of Johnsons

baby shampoo per pint of water (known as slip solution), it may also help

you to have a bone gasket jammer and a gasket shield (all of these areavailable in our car window tinting installation kits).

You will also require some lint free cloth. You may also need some talc, a

bright light and a hot air gun for the rear window and some side windows

if the window is curved horizontally and vertically. It will also help to have a

clean dust free area inside, a cutting table and a clean window large enough

to put each piece of film on.

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Some windows are completely flat and will not require to be heat

shrunk (heat shrinking is needed when the contour of the glass

curves horizontally and vertically.

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Measure the window

and make a note.

Cut down the film, make it between 1-2 longer than required.

TIP: The film needs to be fitted with the factory straight edges ofthe film at the top and bottom of the glass so that the grain is the

correct way for heat shrinking.

Clean the window first and make sure it is completely dry.

TIP: The film has to be completely dry, and water left on the

window may cause the film to crease when being heat shrunk.

Place a small amount of talc on thewindow, then using a dry cloth rub

the talc over the window leaving a

thin film all over the glass.


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Wet a cloth and ring out so damp but not dripping.

Put a line of water horizontally

across the centre of the window.

Check which side the backing

liner is on, this can be done bygrinding a corner between your

teeth or using a piece of sticky

tape at either side of a corner.

TIP: If you are having problems heat

shrinking the top but not the bottom or vice

versa try moving the centre line up or down

slightly so that it is closer to the area you are

having problems heat shrinking.

Put the film on the window withthe backing liner facing you,

the line of water will hold the

film in place.


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Cut around any obstacles.

Put the film in place.

Run the squeegee over the line

of water so the film is flat to

this line.


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Cut round the film so it fits nicely onto the

glass, the film should still be left over sized

to allow for shrinkage, we will cut it closer

once the film has been heat shrunk.

The film should look like this.


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Start with the bottom section; heat the film

with a hot air gun on a high setting andholding it about 25cm (10)s away from the

glass so that it is moulded to the window.

Start at the centre of the window and run the

heat gun from the line to the bottom of the

glass slowly (about 1 second from the top to

the bottom) then back up, in a flowing

movement, continue this moving away from

the centre to the end of the glass and again

to the other end of the glass. As you go over

it more you can start to move the heat gun

closer to the film. The film should be starting

to crinkle and follow the contour of the glass.

Continue doing this until the film seems to fit to

the glass (dont worry about the appearance of

the film at this point, it will look crinkled but we

will sort that out in a moment (see illustration).

The film will not naturally be able to fit to the

contour of the glass as its curved horizontally

and vertically, arrange the film so that there

are fingers running from the middle to thebottom and to the top of the glass (please

see illustration).

TIP: You can not heat shrink fingers out

horizontally, they must be made to run

vertically.

HEAT SHRINKING


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Smooth the film down with your hand.

When its smoothed out a little, carefully

squeegee out with the hard card squeegee.

Use quite a bit of pressure.

TIP: Be extremely careful here not to crease

the film as its easily done, work slowly and

methodically.

Lift up the bottom of the film where youve

heat shrunk and spray generously with water.

HEAT SHRINKING


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When the film is flat to the glass you may be

left with some small fingers, make sure these

fingers are at the bottom of the film, not the

side, if they are on the side you will need tomanipulate them to the bottom (you cant heat

shrink horizontally). These can be heated

quickly with a heat gun and pushed out with

the hard card squeegee. Heat the finger

starting at the peak and work to the bottom,

do this quickly and then run the hard card

squeegee over it, if it comes back do the

process again. Do this until all the fingers

are removed.

TIP: Be careful here not to put too much heat

near the edge of the film as it can cause the

film to burn.

HEAT SHRINKING


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When all the film is flat to the glass we will

need to trim the film, if you have a dark film

such as 20% or darker you will probably needto put a light inside the boot so that you can

see through the film to see the dot matrix or

the edge of the glass. (not required with

pre cuts).

TIP: some cars allow you to be less precise if theres a large area

of dot matrix it can be overlapped.

Cut the film down to 1-2mm over the size of the dot matrix (notrequired with pre cuts).

Do this process again for the top section of the window.

The film should be clean and flat to the glass.


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Remove the film and clean down the outside

of the glass.

Spray the film and clean down completely witha soft cloth.

If you have a clean window free, spray this with water and put the film

on with the backing liner facing away from you. The water will hold

the film on the glass. If you havent use the outside window of the car.


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Spray the inside of the window and clean

down with a scrubbie pad (if you dont use

our scrubbie pads be careful that the one

you use wont damage the heated rear

window elements).

Dry the edges with a lint free cloth, make sureits completely clean.

Use the blue max squeegee or hard card

squeegee to squeegee all the water off the

window.

TIP: Make sure to remove any stickers and

residue, pay particular attention to the dot

matrix as silicone can sometimes sit inside

the dots which will stop the film from sitting

down on the dot matrix as well as it could do.


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Spray the window completely with a fine mist

of the slip solution.

Spray the adhesive with the slip solution.

Go to the piece of film weve already heat

shrunk and make sure the backing liner is

facing you, remove the backing liner if youare unable to remove it try using a piece of

sellotape at either side of a corner).


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Put the film with the adhesive side you

sprayed onto the inside of the glass.

Now squeegee vertically in the centre of thewindow.

When its in place spray the slip solution over

the film and run the squeegee horizontally

across the centre of the glass to hold the filmin place.


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Youll now be left with 4 corners that havent

been squeegeed. Carefully squeegee out

these 4 corners.

If any small fingers pop up these can be left

for an hour to let the film dry a little and then re

squeegee. If the fingers are over approximately2.5cm (1) these are too big to leave and will

need to be heat shrunk.

Hopefully if everything has been done well

before hand it will be perfectly flat to the glass

so just wipe round the edges of the window

to prevent water dripping behind the film.

TIP: Be careful here as its can sometimes be

a common place to crease the film.

TIP: Be careful here as too much heat will

cause the film to dry out too fast and crease.

Just use small bursts of heat and then run a

hard card squeegee over.


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Job done!


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Cut the film down slightly over sized.

Measure the window.

TIP: Make sure you allow for the angles that

the window rolls down and that the film mayneed to be slightly bigger than you first think.

All preparation work is done on the outside of the glass

- the film is fitted internally.

Clean the outside of the glass.


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Place the film over the glass with the backing

liner facing you.

Spray the solution onto the outside of

the window.

The film should overhang each side apart from the bottom which

should be set so that the film will overhang the inside gasket by a cm

so it will go under the gasket.

Squeegee the centre of the film so it doesntmove to easily.


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Some cars have a convex window so it curves horizontally and

vertically and so this will need to be heat shrunk. Have a look at the

heat shrinking section on the rear window installation guide for tips

on how to do this.

Wind down the window slightly, making sure the film doesnt move

or crease.

TIP: Be extra careful here, if it moves slightly it can mess the

whole window up and it can easily crease at the bottom if you

dont hold it away from the glass.

Use a sharp knife and cut along the top of the

glass removing any excess.

Wind the window Back up being careful not to crease the film.

TIP: Be careful again not to crease the film, youll need to pull the

top of the film off slightly so that the film sits over the top of the

outer gasket, keep an eye that the film doesnt move.


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Before starting the next section check the window to make sure

that when you cut the left and right section then open the window it

doesnt leave any big gaps when the windows open, if the window

opens and will leave gaps you will need to make sure you cut the film

appropriately which will be more tricky.

Cut the left edge along the gasket.

Now move the whole film left 5mm so its

overlapping the left gasket that you just cut.


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Cut down the film tight to the right gasket.

Take the film off the window and place on

a cutting surface, wet the surface first and

then squeegee the film onto the surface so

its flat (dont remove the backing liner).


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Using a straight edge tidy up the cuts so that

they are all neat and tidy.

Round any corners that arent visible to

reduce the chance of the film catching

under the gaskets.


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Spray the solution on the inside of the glass

and clean thoroughly using a scrubbie pad

and blue max squeegee or hard card

squeegee making sure to remove any

stickers and residue (a glass scraper can

come in handy here).

Dry the edges with a lint free cloth so that

no dirty water drips down, make sure to

clean around the gaskets too to make sure

that there isnt any cross contamination.


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Spray a mist of slip solution all over the inside

of the glass.

Place the gasket shield down the inner

bottom gasket on the inside of the window.

Wind the window down slightly so that you can get the film onto

the top of the window (dont worry about the bottom of the window

at this time.

Remove the backing liner from the film spraying the adhesive as

you remove.

Place the film on the glass with the adhesive side on the glass.


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Place the top edge so that it is 1-2mm below the top of the window

(this will stop it catching when its wound up, tuck the left and right

edge behind the gasket.

Using the blue max or hard card squeegee,

squeegee all the water out starting fromthe top of the window working down.

Go around the edges with a conqueror

squeegee if you have one or a hard card

squeegee.

Wind the window up slowly making surethat the film doesnt crease or come away

from the glass.

TIP: it can help to push on the glass very gently

when winding up, if you push too hard on an

electric window it sometimes triggers a safety

mechanism and the window automatically

opens which will damage the film.


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Push the bottom down into the gasket and

squeegee the rest of the window.

Go around all the edges with a conqueror if

you have one to makes sure that the film is

squeegeed behind the gasket perfectly.

Dry around the window so that no water

drips behind the film.


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If theres any small fingers go around with a

hard card squeegee, leave till dry if they dont

go straight down (a small finger is anything

less than about 2.5cm (1), if theyre bigger

than this then youll need to make sure you

get the fingers down before it drys.

Put masking tape over the window wind

down handle or electric window button anddont wind the window down for 7 days to

allow to fully dry.

TIP: You may be able to use a heat gun to

get down these small fingers, it will need

very small bursts of heat as the film can dry

quickly, if it dries too quickly it may crease.


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These can be filmed using the same techniques that have been

used in the previous information on rear and side windows. If

the windows dont have a dot matrix we recommend using the

backing liner from a piece of film youve already installed and

spraying the outside of the quarter panel with water. Squeegee

the backing liner to the window. This will allow you to easily cutthe backing liner to fit the window and use this as a template.

Simply spray your cutting surface with water and squeegee a

piece of film, big enough to cover the quarter panel (without

removing the backing liner). Now spray the film and squeegee

the clear backing liner onto the film. You will be left with the

backing liner flat over the top of the film so you can then cut the

film out carefully, save the template to be reversed for the

other side.

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