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17 minutes ago, DynamicATL said:

I don't know how successful polishing will be but the right answer is for them to replace the glass and tint the new. If they do, make sure they get the OEM glass not some cheap replacement.

That was my original thought, and if he goes that route it might even cost him more to get someone to try to attempt to polish it...

Also thank you for the heads up, I will make sure if he replaces the windshield that it gets replaced with an OEM replacement, btw how can I tell OEM? Ask for receipts or something?

Also as you can tell half the glass is cut it’s not even a small cut...I think the only way to fix this is to get a brand new rear window. I just have a hard time believing polishing will fix this.

Am I being too anal about this matter? I’m sure if we go that route the guy will be losing money.

So I went to get my dads brand new car tinted today. It’s and Outback XT 2020.

The guy that did the tint wasn’t there when we went to pick up the car.

Took pictures while we were there and contacted the guy about my rear window getting cut.

He said it should be able to polished out. I am going to give him the chance to make it right by fixing it but I highly doubt it will be able to polish it since my nails get caught in it.

I am also worried that polishing a rear glass could make the glass weaker and make it more vulnerable to cracks?

Also when you cut a window don’t you notice it right away and tell your client immediately?

46 minutes ago, DynamicATL said:

 

You can't install window tint on that windshield.  It messes with the Subaru system and can be a several thousand fix.  Subaru actually released information stating not to tint it.

Bummer :/

I wish the eyesight would be enclosed to the windows so this way it would have been nice to tint it around it.

But safety first, I guess I will need to start wearing sunglasses with contacts.

Have any of you installed the Stratus 70 on a Subaru equipped with eyesight?

I want to have my windshield tinted...

Do these savages live in their damn cars? Even homeless people are cleaner than some of these cars!

Sounds like they worked something out for OP. I’m glad that worked out. 

Honestly I’d leave a terrible review on yelp unless they fix everything 100%!

for the amount of money you spent you deserve better!

I’ve seen people pay $3500 here for just a full front hood wrap. 

Thats a pretty decent price, but dirt imo is unacceptable, especially black stuff and stretch marks.

For how much clear bra cost to install might need to install it at nasa in a dust free chamber, I’m kidding. 

I’ll leave it be, can’t really see it when the car it Unless the car is clean and you are up close. Once you see something your eyes always turn towards it, my best bet is to forget about it lol. But yeah, the install came out pretty good, all edges wrapped including the back edge, the film cured well.

7 minutes ago, highplains said:

I would say so. Just taking a guess at the size of that piece of lint judging it against the metallic in the paint, if that's the only issue in a complete hood you're doing pretty good. If you were to have them lift the film to try and remove it you're going to be left with a lift line in the film and there's no guarantee that it wouldn't pick up some other defect or contamination in the process. Unfortunately we don't get to apply these films in 100% sterile environments to 100% sterile surfaces and they're applied by hand by a human so there's always a chance of there being at least a small defect. The larger the piece of film being applied and the more complex the shape of the surface it's being applied to, the higher the odds of an issue arising either from contamination or other defect(silvering, application mark, lift line, etc.). Going back to your original question as to whether it's going to damage the paint if left, I don't think you have anything to worry about there. Hope that helps you.

Thanks for the detailed reply, the installer told me he could try to use steam to bring up the edge since its not too far from the edge of the car. But doing so it may damage the film and he may have to redo the whole thing. Other than the very small lint, the rest of the car surface is flawless, and I totally understand lint can get in there unless you are working in one of those car paint rooms where everything is white and there is 0 dust.

Also thank you for telling me that if he were to lift it that it would leave a lift line. I just wish I would have caught it the same day it was done, but the last 3-4 weeks I didn't see it until today. we had had some bad weather and not much sun, over the last week now the sun shines I can see it.

But yeah, I've inspected the rest of the film and everything seems to be fine.

I was going to ask him if I could just poke it with a needle and get it out, he said do not do that because it would compromise the film and it would make things worse since its on the hood.

He did tell me he will look into it next week and see what can be done, but I would hate to have him redo the hood a 3rd time for something minuscule. 

I have OCD, so it kinda drives me nuts when the car is clean and that little white particle shows up...

I see, it’s been 5 weeks, so wouldn’t it be a bad idea to pull it apart on the side to clean it up?

the clear bra has been edge wrapped and sealed under the hood.

Hi there I had xpel installed and noticed there is a small lint under it, it’s been about 5 weeks after install. The rest of the hood is flawless, this was a Full hood clear bra. Only problem is there is a small lint, very tiny and it’s white so it sticks out a bit on a darker car.

My installer told me at this point if he tries to poke any holes it would compromise the clear bra. Is that correct? My main concern is, will overtime this piece of lint cause any damage to the paint under?

the hood has been redone before because there was a bigger hair, so I don’t want to cause any hassle to have it redone. 

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