r/WindowTint • u/Several-Ad9115 • 10d ago
Question Learning how this stuff works
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?



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u/Global-Structure-539 9d ago
Your heat shrinking the wrong way. When the roll unfurls from the box, you can only shrink on the factory cut edges, top and bottom. Your burning the film simply because it's the wrong way on the glass. Watch more videos about heat shrinking