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Originally Posted by htp autoworks
Susan I guess I need to know a little more of what area you are talking about. The "lower side of the bottom grill piece" is a little confusing. If its the bottom of the front bumper... in the center yes there is a piece for that. Not sure why this wouldnt be covered. You got a VERY good price on that... in fact I am nto sure how he really made any money on your install. Well I am taking it that you got the hood and fenders done along with the lights.
By the way I am sure your installer meant he has been doing tint for 26 years. Paint protection film has not been out that long. The earliest I have heard of it being used was the mid 90s... this film was originally used by the millitary over in the Iraq for protecting helicopter rotors and aircraft from sand. It took a while but someone finally figured out it could be used on vehicles. So the mid 90s is when it was first being used and it was all custom cutting... which almost killed the industry since nearly all of the installers were cutting the paint up. Using plotters for cutting patterns started around 1999-2000.
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Thanks for responding htp
always have respected your opinion in this area
I recently learned that too about the military uses. Cool how the Military leads the way for commercial uses of different products that we take for granite. When I was talking to Sean at his shop, his wife overheard me relating my experience with what others had paid for their protective films on this site and she said
" see I told you! your charging too little!" with that he just looked at me smiled and said "told you I'd take care of ya"
Sean uses a protective film from LLumar and I truly can't tell where the protective film ends and the paint begins
I always have to run my finger across the line to feel it.
http://www.llumar.com/en/AutoPaintProtection.aspx
I don't know a thing concerning the different brands qualities so I'll leave that debate to folks in the know. I think he Guarantees his work for 5 years (I'll check that too tonight as well) His cad program didn't cover the "underside" of the front clip (closet to the road). (he was saying that as with the Camaro being new the manufacture should upgrade the Cad program at a later date)I hope that helps to explain it but I'll take a pic of the underside I'm referring to tonight when I get home. I did not want him to do the hood area as I really don't care for the line across it, so I had him follow the hood-top clip seam, so no I did not have the hood itself done just the top portion of the clip. Oh yea, I asked him how long he had been doing "this" (I asked him that question when he was in My garage tinting the windows) which I then said that amount of time would qualify him as a master craftsman.