Snapping door windows

nice tip, im not an auto guy but sounds like it would help.

that is EXACTLY the way i do it except for bugs

I am trying to picture this but don't think i understand, a vid would be awesome!!! Thanks for the tip though!!!

dude, please post a vid if you have it!!! i am curious but i stupid, i still don't understand!!!

Cool, i cant wait for the vid, sounds like an excelent tip!!!

He is just preshrinking the bottom of the film on his peeler. Nice tip BTY!

Great tip, I shall try it!!

i dont do many door glasses that need shrunk............but will give it a try...i just usually hit them with a carded paper towel and a little heat to help dry them but we do remove panels so that sounds like a super tip for tinters who dont pull....

only question i have is why is it called snapping

The "down under shrink" is another name for this method.

I made a video of this today i am uploading it to youtube right now

With this method you dont have to have the film on the car to shrink it.

What you want to do is pull the film back slightly and blow heat behind and along the leading edge of the pattern. When you do this you "curl" the film.

When you go to install it the curl of the film compensates for the fingers you would have normally had, you just squeege the film down and it basically snaps into place a log the bottom when you install it.

This method is alot faster than taking each pattern to its window and shrinking it on the car.

This method takes about 5 to 10 seconds to do when you get good at it.

Here is a small video of me curling the film, you can see how it curls away from the window, when i push it down it snaps back into place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFT6MlhY45I

Cool Vid dude

Cool,thanks for the vid, i'll give it a shot and see how much film i can screw up before i figure it out!!!!

I tried it today on a new audi A6 - worked like a champ!

Spoke too soon...works well for me with Llumar ATR but I seem to overshrink the Madico Onyx...have to have a play and waste some film practising.

ND

Thanks for the tip I'll try that out... I was trained to shrink the film on the window raised up about 3 inches from the bottom so you can hard card the bottom edge flat to the glass. It works ok it seems, but there is often a need to re-shrink a little bit. Your technique should definitely cut down on debris for sure

Awesome!!!! It really helps to see it being done!. I will try!

Nice Video!!

I do that same thing but rather than running the heat gun while its on the my cutting board i just run a little heat across the bottom edge before sizing up the window

EX

I make my vertical cuts and trim off any excess and leave an extra 1" or so on the bottom



Then run a little heat across the bottom edge you'll see it smooth out (stay about 2" from each end just heat the middle).



Then i cut the bottom edge at the gasket roll down the window cut the top transfer to my flat glass and trim up



Take note to the curling of the bottom edge. that with now snap to the glass when you squeege out the bottom. I prefer the term overshrinking. Dont know why

Also, in theory, that overshrinking causes the film to press against the bottom edge and will help the film bond to the glass and reduce the chance of getting a peeler.

Ive found the 75% of the cars I do you can roll down within 20 min of squeeging with little or no heating

i have done this om my last couple of honda's that i tinted and it works great!!...thanks for the info guys..

Tried this today for the first time on a Monte Carlo...

Worked like a charm. Great tip!

I've started shrinking all my side windows on the rear window now, no more walking to each window to shrink, stick em on the roll around right next to the window, peel each one off, shrink it, then lay it it's respective seat, (as I do a "free-air peel"),...it definitely over shrinks it, I like to say it sucks itself to the window, kinda like a camaro back window wants to do....I got this from 1peece a while back,.. no one else has tried this?, I love it...I think it's quicker
I tried "curling", didn't like it, doesn't always work, then you still gotta mess with it....
And, when you shrink it on the rear window, it seems like the tint curls inward more naturally, keeping it off the sides.....
I don't know, but I've cut my time down to about an hour and fifteen minutes on most cars here as of late,(07 RL, couple of new camrys, 01 Lesabre, just a couple examples), and they're coming out clean, all the reasons I'd started removing panels are gone, just by overshrinking it....and I'm not trying to brag, just trying to help, it's all about making more money, but still put out an exceptional product.....

oh yeah.... I also got a bulldozer last week, that might have something do with time as well, ya think?... I'm such an idiot

I want to bone my bulldozer.

Curling?!? isnt that some reallyboring sport that they have in the olympics..i ant remember i always changed the channel

thanks for the video tm thanks for the tip never heard of till now but look like it will save me some time

hey hey hey.....i have a betta way to do that it works mint cut out ur window and set it up like u normally would set it for a hard card shrink ...then just pull up the bottom edge across the whole bottom edge of the window and curl the edge under when u lay it back down it should look like a smile then its shrunk ...never had a finger pop up since i been shrinkin like that and it take about a min to shrink out all 4 doors and quaters ps i started to shrink the rears like that also and no stress marks on lexus and so on

Post some pics of this. please

I still don't really get it, but then, I'm kind of an idiot. Maybe I'm just overthinking it, but how do you know that you're not overshrinking, or undershrinking, or burning the edged or... (this line of thinking, BTW, is part of the reason my installs are soooo slooooow.

Spontaneous illiteracy?

I just invented another way to do it... It's pretty much the same tip as 237's, but with blue Times New Roman font:

You are the p-chop master.

Can you talk me through the free-air peeling please?

ND

we timed shrinking the 4 windows and 2 quarters this way it took about 1min 10 sec to shrink the whole car its so much faster and never a finger or crease this way its the best man...