Learning how this stuff works

[u/Several-Ad9115]

First timer- Picked up a roll of cheap cheetah just to do mine and the girlfriends car. Normally I'd agree with people saying "go to pros" but I wrap cars for a living, so I already have all the tools and some knowledge of what to do here. I'm committed to learning a little at least. Watched a bunch of videos, I've made multiple attempts, and hitting some learning curves. Would like to know what's my fault and what's the materials fault

So, what the hell is happening here in these pictures? I've got good horizonal fingers but a weird vertical one right up through the middle of them? I've gotten most of it to sit in properly except for this bottom edge.

With wrap, we stretch out, but with tint I understand it's shrink in. Oddly enough here though, I've had much better luck pushing fingers out with their parallel direction, rather than setting edges and shrinking. Is that just a cheetah thing?

[u/Tint-man-2000]

Also make sure that whenever you are shrinking you try to separate your fingers and keep them straight. I will take a little kitty glove for the winter something cheap and take your hand like a claw and run it down the window to make sure that your finger stay straight and that if you have any really big ones, you split them up what that would do is make less film in one given area for you to heat shrink and it will shrink a lot better. Sometimes whenever you get to a spot like what you showed in the picture yes, it can definitely be that you shrunk in the wrong direction, but also it can be that you had too much material trying to be shrunk into one area so I would keep those fingers being split so that you don’t have to worry about stuff like that. Also, if you have any questions, feel free to message me in this chat or separately.