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Anyone have issues with trash in Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo? Just installed tint on my super clean peel board to make sure it wasn't a process error, and I have random patterned trash all over the film. Using Ice Mountain purified water in a gallon jug to mix with. Any help would be appreciated!

2nd update:

I had to do another 2010 Avenger, and I pulled the panel and gaskets. OMFG. Why was I ever against this? Super easy. Screw not pulling gaskets. I don't think I'm ever gonna screw around with tucking ever again.

'10 Dodge Avenger

Update: I finally got a clean install without pulling the panel. Used double snap, top load technique. Seems the culprit was my slip solution. I was using too much Johnson's Baby Shampoo. I cut it way back to just one pump per liter. Made things much easier to manage.

I appreciate the advice. I suppose I'll give panel pulling a go.

Do you feel a gasket wizard would allow me to do clean, bottom-load installs without pulling panels?

Well, I suppose that would be because it looks like Ralph Van Pelt gets clean installs without doing it. I wanna minimize risk of damaging the cars. I also am a perfectionist and I know that perfection is expected of me, albeit eventually. If you and everyone else truly feels that's the only way to get a premium install done, then that's what I'll do. I was under the impression it's possible to do premium work without pulling panels. Given my skill set (perfectionist attitude, lack of experience working on cars) that seemed like the path of least resistance.

I'm fresh to the game, but I've been practicing, reading these forums, and watching youtube tutorials like crazy (Window Tinting Business and Ralph Van Pelt, mostly). I even have training scheduled through 3M in Chicago, but that isn't until February. I understand contamination prevention pretty well. I've even remodeled my bay, sealed the floor, and have a dedicated pressure washer that I use to clean the floor after every car. 

My problem is I'm still getting contamination through over-handling the tint on side doors on cars with deep gaskets. This causes finger bubbles, which in turn creates a vacuum which sucks trash out of the gaskets into the film. I've double-snapped preshrunk and two-staged, but I can't tuck the tint into the side gaskets without bending the tint somewhere and creating a vacuum and sucking in trash. I know the answer is likely that I need to pull panels and gaskets, but I just really don't want to do that. I've never worked on cars before this job, and I can foresee headaches.

I've ordered the gasket wizard and will attempt to bottom load when it arrives to reduce install time and over-handling, but in the meantime, can anyone offer a theory of targeting and squeegee pattern? I'd like to not just know WHAT your routine is, but WHY you do it so I can fully understand the mechanics and help develop my own skills. As you may have guessed, I'm an over-thinker, and I'm sick of wasting tint and beating my head against the wall while I trial and error my way through this admittedly steep learning curve.

Appreciate any help, dudes and dudettes!