A couple weeks ago I did a simple hood stripe on a new Mustang. It was one fat stripe then a void and a smaller 2 inch pinstripe on either side. Its somewhat of a standard stripe for the Mustang. The material was Oracal 970 RA Graphite Metallic.
Because of the stripe being in several pieces, I had used a paper premask. I cleaned the hood several times, clay barred it, tack cloth, cleaned again etc. All of this right in front of the customer, as he was standing there watching me go through the whole process.
So I put it on like I have done almost every other graphic. Went on pretty much flawless. Once it was done it looked real glassy smooth. I gave the whole hood another quick clean off with isopropyl and a microfiber cloth, the customer was real happy and he went on his way.
2 weeks after the install, the customer called back saying there were lines all through the stripe. I told him to leave it out in the sun for a couple days to see if it just needed to cure out. Unfortunately, that didn't do it He came in with the car and sure enough all the way through the graphic were horizontal lines. The kind of lines that I have seen on other wrap jobs where the film was heated and overstretched and then laid back down. I didn't heat or stretch this at all as it was a pretty straight forward install.
So am I doing something wrong? Are these lines from where I squeegeed? Is it the material?
Some of the lines are super close together (almost 1/8th inch at spots) and almost exactly straight across the graphic, more close together and more straight than what I had squeegeed
What is baffling me is I did two other Mustang hood graphics later in the week, one with Oracal 970 Matte Black and one with 970 Gloss Black. They were almost identical graphics and were done the exact same way and Haven't heard anything about this issue on those two cars.
Any help would be great as I now have to re-do this customers hood and I am worried that it will happen again.
I tried taking pictures, but it was one of those things where you couldn't even see the lines from certain angles and my phone just couldn't get that close without being blurry.
Because of the stripe being in several pieces, I had used a paper premask. I cleaned the hood several times, clay barred it, tack cloth, cleaned again etc. All of this right in front of the customer, as he was standing there watching me go through the whole process.
So I put it on like I have done almost every other graphic. Went on pretty much flawless. Once it was done it looked real glassy smooth. I gave the whole hood another quick clean off with isopropyl and a microfiber cloth, the customer was real happy and he went on his way.
2 weeks after the install, the customer called back saying there were lines all through the stripe. I told him to leave it out in the sun for a couple days to see if it just needed to cure out. Unfortunately, that didn't do it He came in with the car and sure enough all the way through the graphic were horizontal lines. The kind of lines that I have seen on other wrap jobs where the film was heated and overstretched and then laid back down. I didn't heat or stretch this at all as it was a pretty straight forward install.
So am I doing something wrong? Are these lines from where I squeegeed? Is it the material?
Some of the lines are super close together (almost 1/8th inch at spots) and almost exactly straight across the graphic, more close together and more straight than what I had squeegeed
What is baffling me is I did two other Mustang hood graphics later in the week, one with Oracal 970 Matte Black and one with 970 Gloss Black. They were almost identical graphics and were done the exact same way and Haven't heard anything about this issue on those two cars.
Any help would be great as I now have to re-do this customers hood and I am worried that it will happen again.
I tried taking pictures, but it was one of those things where you couldn't even see the lines from certain angles and my phone just couldn't get that close without being blurry.
