Any ideas on what happened?

[duggan]

I had a customer come in today to discuss a new wrap for his vehicle. It's a radio station. The last wrap was done 3 years ago. He said he only had one issue with the last wrap, and showed me this. I’ve included the pictures. We used Oracal3651 and a 210 Laminate. Any ideas on what could have caused this? If you can't tell, this is the hood of the vehicle, it has cracked/split. Thanks for the help!

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

First off a center seam is unacceptable even in my cheap book. Second it's a horizontal surface. I'd guess a combination of heat/uv and inferior/incorrect product. Non cast vinyl/permanent adhesive.... How long has that cup of joe been sitting there? Removal should be fun.

 

[Signed Out]

if it's just on the hood and not the roof then it was most like caused by the heat put off by the engine

 

[Signed Out]

next time use 3951

 

[Signed Out]

with 290 lam

 

[HulkSmash]

why the hell would you seam a hood.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

why the hell would you seam a hood.

Small printer is my guess

 

[Sign Works]

Can you believe that someone actually has to ask why? Absoloutly fricken amazing.

 

[GraphixUnlimited]

wrong choice of vinyl for this job.. use a cast vinyl next time and everytime for vehicle graphics..

 

[HulkSmash]

cast vinyl, cast lam.

 

[BigfishDM]

cast vinyl, cast lam.

X2!

 

[AceHigh]

There is a guy in my area that seams every hood and it drives me CRAZY! I don't know why they think it is easier or?? I only have a 54" Roland and I have never had to seam a hood. You just have to know how to measure I guess??
And CAST, CAST for everything on a vehicle.

 

[duggan]

Honestly, I do not know why they seamed the hood. I did not realize they had did that! Very unprofessional!
Thankfully we don't have to remove the vinyl - the wrecked the vehicle!
Cast Vinyl! I'll mark that down! Thanks for the tips!

 

[cdiesel]

3 years on a hood is pretty good. Round here, there are no warranties from the manufacturers on horizontal surfaces.. except 8528.

 

[njshorts]

with those materials... amazed it lasted that long.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

3 years on a hood is pretty good. Round here, there are no warranties from the manufacturers on horizontal surfaces.. except 8528.

Yeah, the same warranties with other 3M materials right? Pissing up a rope I believe is the correct terminology.

Just sayin...

 

[MikePro]

you should have laminated that calendared vinyl with duct tape.

 

[SightLine]

you should have laminated that calendared vinyl with duct tape.

:ROFLMAO:

heh - no need to restate what everyone else has already said....