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Hi all, I have both these cars this week any tips on the door panels and back glass to make it alot smoother would be great. cheers
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The doors are very similar to mk5 golf,only higher, still can do them with a 20" roll. identical rear quater glass, door trims come off easy with 4 torx screws, 10 minutes to take all panels off, rear screen easy too, looks hard, but when you lay the film on its not a problem.
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Any one ever seen one of these? I can't find anything on it.
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Hi, I did Tinted one today. Removed the front door panels, all went good. Then at 7pm got a call from the customer. He said, when driving the car all the doors lock themself automaticaly. Also, when locking the doors with the remote, all doors lock except the driver door. Any ideas? Thank's.
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MK4 golf 2 door rear side windows
by Guest fogged306- 2 replies
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Just bought one and went to tint the back two side windows and the headliner and pillars are tight and extend into the matrix. What do you guys do about this? I'm kind of glad I ran into it on my car before I did one for a customer. Short of pulling the panels and dropping the headliner, I don't know how to approach this one. I can't even slide the tint up into the matrix because the headliner is pressed on the glass so tight.
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2012 VW Golf TSI
by Guest tinta- 4 replies
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I got a brand new Golf to tint - I can get the rear passenger door trims off no worries but the rubber is jammed tight. I can get the rubber off the front 2 doors without taking the trims off and can do the rear window no worries. Has anyone ever had rubbers jammed on a Golf and any suggestions on getting it off? I've broken a few tools trying to pry it off - have tried soapy water my fingers are killing - as I try and pull it, the whole car lifts up its jammed that tight. I tinted the same model a week ago and got the rubbers out easy.. not sure why this car is giving me grief. Damn VWs.
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For those that remove door trims on new Golfs and Polos for example, make sure you "reset" the plugs that go into the door otherwise if they are not separated to open up, they will not go back into the door properly and will not seat the door trim. Devil
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Volkswagen Jetta TDI
by Guest StreetSmartFX- 2 replies
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Anyone done one? Cant seem to find any info on this forum regarding them. Custy has a 2012 I think the coupe and I dont do too many VWs so im curious. Any info (felt) would be appreciated - THANKS!
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golf mk4 rear doors 1 2
by Guest tint325i- 10 replies
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someone pm'd me a week or so ago asking how to remove quarters on the 5 door mk4 golf not often i see these these days but one appeared the other day
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2012 Vw Touareg
by Guest tinta- 6 replies
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Has anyone recently tinted a 2012 VW Touareg and have any suggestions in to how to get the door trims off?
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vw golf 3dr 2005 mk 5
by Guest cooltintsmobile- 9 replies
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my next car is as stated, anything to look out for guys? I'm guessing the side quarters will want shrinking a little, whats the back window like? this is my 4th car so please excuse the lame questions, I want this to be perfect. thanks people
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Hello iv been tinting only for a few months, i thought i was getting on fine until the back windows, when i shrink the fingers they keep coming down the window a spreading apart,but not going away, im using sun tek sp 35% i havnt had this problem on other cars iv done, can anyone give me some advice, would be much appreciated
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wooo!!! just did my first successful one pieced BG on a beatle. used global and the soap method. came out great on the first try. figured id share
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Any advice / tips on the new sharan rear sliding doors, anytime I've done these types of doors I struggle abit getting a nice clean install. Thanks in advance Bob
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Vw Jetta Side Lights
by Guest just scotty- 6 replies
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front windows on 2012 jetta just automatically rolling down when completing application, why?
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2012 VW TIGUAN DOOR PANEL REMOVAL!!
by Guest ORIGINAL- 8 replies
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I CAN T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO REMOVE THE DOOR PANEL... I took off the two bottom screws and still holds on pretty tight... other than that i dont see anything.... anyone some one please.......
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okay..so tinting an amarok tomorrow...any body got any ideas????? what should i look for and how to pull the trims? any help would be great
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Golf Mk5 gti
by Guest visualtints- 5 replies
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Was wondering my last mk6 golf was alot easier than the golf mk5 I did today has any 1 any tips on shrinking this glass done few before but today was caught off guard lol. Any tips on how ur duin this glass wud be helpful.. Was having more problems on top corners rather than bottom. Any 1 do owt dfrnt on top corners.thanks
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Did a EOs this week . On the convertibles i usually open the top half and do the back window standing out side the car . I do this on all convertibles but i havent done a EOS . When i go to put the top down it says to take vehicle into service and the roof was dead. Luckily it was under warranty but VW said not to stop the roof half way because of some security feature. VW just had to reset some thing . So i dont advice opening the top on those .
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2011 GTI sides
by Guest deanjones- 6 replies
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Anyone done the 2011? The door panels appear to be different. The fronts seem as if they could pull back at the top, but the rears are tough. Anyone tried removing them?
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They just rolled into the dealerships. How are they to tint? They looked like frameless rollups. Rear glass still looks like a competition piece.
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2011 GTI 1 2
by dsilversey- 10 replies
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Anyone do one? It looks like the BG is easier?
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02 Beetle
by Guest dagrinderrr@yahoo.com- 3 replies
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Hi guys new here and have been searching for the best technique to heat shrink a beetle back window. From what i can tell the pull and heat seems to work the best. I have deffinitly taken some time to look for video's and have only found a few that actually show it being done but figured i would get some input on it since i have one coming into the shop on Monday. Thanks again.
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2004 Vw Passat
by Guest jcoe- 0 replies
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Hey guys I have been tinting for a few months n ow and I have a 04 vw passat here. i read some other posts about it and the mentioned the felt trim around the windows being tight. I just pop the top of te door panel back and peeled the trim away to make it tighter and I plan on tucking the bottom edge behind the gasket . Do you all think that will work pretty well?
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Anyone done a new toureag yet? looks like the rear door panels have to come off but just seeing if anyone has done this yet?
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'New' T2 Camper Sliders
by Guest dagz- 4 replies
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Who's done the new T2's? You know, the Brazilian ones. I did one the other day, took all the windows out but didn't take the sliders apart as they were bonded. Couldn't get a good job on them - I don't like gaps/film edges! If I do another one I definitely want to take the sliders apart. Anyone done this?
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please help me 1 2
by Guest tint whisperer- 19 replies
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struggling here.... those damn bottom corners, and the tops are no fun either, WTF? any tips would be greatly appreciated 4 x fail
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Any info and tips would be great guys... old car.. never had the chance to do one? Thanks
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Got one of these In the shop today.... Should be fun!
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2006 Jetta 1 2
by Guest ridiculous- 13 replies
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got one comin up. anything i need to know? i prefer to pull panels if possible. its my first VW so i don't even know what to expect...
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Passat CC 1 2
by Ideal Tints- 13 replies
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I've got a Passat CC to do on monday, just wondered if anyone has any tips for them? Looks like the back glass install is gonna be tight? Cheers Matt
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Just got done tinting my Jetta and It was the first tint job that I did. Anyone remove door panels because of the double gasket on this car? What are some things that you guys did to make the process go by quicker and easier? I spent like 2 hours on just the back glass, but just remember... I just started. I did it with 5% Lumar on the 4 Side windows and 15% on the back window so I can see backing up at night
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just had a customer complain about his dot matrix boarder on a jetta. "well i saw it perfect on another jetta in a parking lot somewhere." right right everybody does.... i guess i would be unhappy to if i was driving a jetta.
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2011 VW Jetta
by Guest tintpro2007- 7 replies
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Did this 2011 VW Jetta this afternoon at a dealership, haven't done one of the 2011's till this one. It's not like the previous 2010 - below model years. As you can tell the quaters are different, as far as install goes, the gasket's don't come out on these, or if they do I couldn't figure out how to get them out, so I tucked them instead. Older model's I always took front 2 gasket's out, tucked rear rolldowns. The gasket's are pretty tight, and the glass pretty much stops right after the side channel, so I would suggest not pulling the pattern's long anywhere, and it works just fine. Back glass is easy, no more third brakelight at top to pull out to get behind, just one …
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2011 volkswagen golf
by Guest autotint- 3 replies
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well just tinted one today,very easy and straight forward!!!!!!!!
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Anyone ever done this car,does window need to come out. Any info would be great.Thanks in advance.
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Despite the back window being easy, these doors give me such a freaking hard time, namely the front 2 doors. I just tinted a 2010 last night and tried pushing out on the glass to slide the tint tight against the back edge but no matter what I did, I still had a slight gap because the tint would not slide back far enough. Would taping the felts aid in sliding it in or what can I do on these to make it easier? No problems with the panels or gasket, just that darn backside edge.
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2011 Jetta
by Guest drew675- 1 reply
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not bad, pop off covers on door panel near top (very tight i had to use chizler instead of bone gasket jammer) . One torx screw, pull gasket out. Tape up felt and away you go. Driver and passenger door are a little tight on the side just push out on the glass while you drop the film in. Quater window is revised and now has a black painted gap no more gutting rubbers! Rear window was cake and you dont have to pop out the 3rd brake light anymore they moved it to the bottom of the deck.
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mk4 quarter windows
by Guest bav- 3 replies
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anyone out there kind enough to tell me how to remove quarter windows to tint or any tip on how to get a neat job done on them without removing them cheers in advance
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first car of the day! tons of felt but nothing a little tape couldnt take car of.lol
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