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To make things worse, your mirror cap pulls forward off the car, but mine pulls up. I broke all the small clips inside the cap and a few of the big clips while removing them the first time, and looking under the mirror cap, I still have no idea how it's supposed to come off without damage Couldn't find anything on forums either. |
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Thanks a lot for those answers!! They're very helpful.
For the bumper, do you have a picture of how the parking sensors look when you wrap over them? I envision the deep recesses to be very difficult and will take a lot of pieces to get done. If you have a diagram of which separate pieces you use it might help the rest of us a lot For the door handle insert, I'm actually talking about the silver piece. Maybe I didn't give it enough heat for the corners to go in, I'm not sure... Sick wrap on the Subaru! I really like the CF details you put in [/QUOTE] Glad I was able to help. Thank you for the kind words on the Subaru. That car was not an easy task. Lol - the silver on the door handle insert. That's easy. Lay a piece on top. Smooth it out, the heat it and let it shrink into the curves. Push and get it in the cracks and cut it out the excess. - I don't have a pic of where the parking sensors are. If you zoom in on my pics. You won't be able to tell where the sensors are I let it cover it and just didn't press into inane let the sun bake into it and conform to the area. I like. It seeing those dots. - on the front bumper recesses, I learned from another guy. Make a pattern using painters tape. I would take painters tape and tape those inside recesses. Then peel it off as a whole. Lay that tape the back side of the vinyl them cut the pattern out and lay it in the recesses. I hope what I said made sense. If not let me know I'll try and explain better. |
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One more question came up while looking over my car. How did you wrap the roof rails? I notice you wrapped over the pop-up pieces which is fine, but if I remember right there's a very thin black plastic piece attached to the roof rails. Does that come off for wrapping under it?
Also, how far did you wrap into the door frame? I'm receiving my vinyl today so I'm pretty excited to get started |
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I'm really tempted to try this over the winter as my car hibernates.
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Let me design something for it! hahaha
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that would be AWESOME!
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Alright so I started my wrap project (I'll start a separate thread on that so I don't derail your thread ), and I ran into a few things already...
1. How do you wrap the headlight portion of the front fenders? The concave part near the headlights keep ripping when I try to tuck it under the headlights. Looking at guides for removing the headlight it seems like too much work. Is there a way to easily loosen the fender or the headlights a little bit? 2. How do you tuck under the doors' window trims? Is there an easy way to remove those? I'm very quickly starting to realize that removing parts or loosening them is a lot more difficult than the wrapping itself |
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1. With or without removing the headlight on that concave area. You can get it to conform into the area and under. Just lightly heat it and push it in little by little. When you heat the vinyl you'll be able to tuck it in easily in that area. 2. I didn't remove my window trim to tuck the vinyl in. If your squeegee is thin enough on the edge. You should be able use that and push the vinyl under it for a nice tuck. Or use a credit card or something and gently push it under. That should give it a nice tuck. If you use a credit card or some sort. Too much pressure will rip the vinyl pretty easily. Be careful with that. Then I use an exacto knife and slide the blade underneath to make the cut. You shouldn't need to remove too many parts at all for the f10. Door handles (easy), tail lights (easy), headlights, (if bumper is off should be easy. I would highly recommend removing the headlights. Then put bumper back on to wrap). Grill, emblems, reflectors (if needed) |
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The bottom of the headlight is very tight to the quarter panel and I wan't able to get it tucked in without ripping ... what am I doing wrong here? |
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There’s a way to loosen the fender so you can bring it away from the headlight. Highly recommend looking into this, when I had mine wrapped, that part kept lifting up over time because you need to clean/prep that area properly.
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Any idea how to do this easily? I think there's a few bolts at the top under the hood, but I'm not sure if that's sufficient to loosen the fender...
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Bottom side: You first have to take off 3 bolts holding the wheel well liner (easy), and then with one hand peel back the liner, and with the other hand undo 3 bolts holding the bumper to the fender. The bolts are hard to reach and the fender is hard to hold in place even with the wheel turned. Two of them are 8mm bolts and the last one is a 10mm. Top: Remove the 8 or 10 clips holding the weather molding under the hood, and then remove the first 3 or 4 bolts (10mm) holding the fender After all of this is done, there's one more "U" shaped clip attaching the fender to the headlight assembly.. you need to push the fender inwards a little bit to undo that clip, and it will release from the headlight |
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seeing those wrinkles i would think when you heat you need to pull in opposite direction. i know this from wrapping my mirrors. also like mentioned above it could be still dirty or not clean and thus the wrap isn't holding?
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Man I'm not sure why that area is causing such a headache for you. I don't understand it. I tucked and sealed that area pretty quickly with no problems.
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1. my headlights being tighter to the fender (I can barely fit a squeegee in there, even when loosened) 2. the KPMF film I bought being less flexible/forgiving, therefore ripping easily 3. slightly colder environment and cheaper squeegee with more friction, leading to rips Anyways I'm done that portion for now and finished the rear quarter panel before I went on vacation. Will continue in a week! |
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