So now about a week into having tinted lights and I found out a couple things:
1. When I did my headlights I went about it two ways, first full wrap with heat and no relief cuts on the drivers side. This has not held up well. I am sure it was my fault as the drivers was the first light I did ever.
2. A relief cut may be needed for the longevity of the tint.
My drivers side has started to release on the top outer corner where the most tension is as there are multiple angles to navigate. On the pass side I decided to make a small cut about half way of the complex angle on the outer HL top where it is a different angle than the top of the light/face of the HL.
When I do this with the lighter tint I will be making a cut along that outer angle as the tint stayed in place better and the lap of the cut is really rather invisible unless up close.
First two are the Drivers side upper corner
Next two are the passenger side with the relief cut.
As you can see the drivers side is a mess, not sure if it was me trying to do too much or me not doing it right.
The passenger side relief cut was made on the upper/outer corner as it wrapped toward the rear of the vehicle. if you look closely you can just see where the wrap is doubled up at that corner. The face of the wrap was not cut, just where the corner which protrudes out was going toward the back on that upper corner, if that makes sense. The material seals or "heals" better than it stretches so take that into consideration. And I had made up a felt wrapped tool, so maybe buy the right tools for the job is another lesson I learned, which I did order some tools for the next version, after removal, state inspection and applying the lighter tint.
Also I wrapped the little running side lights while they were in place, I found out later that these pop out quite easily so next time I will remove them and simply heat up the wrap and do it that way.
Lessons learned, and soon I will let you know how easily tint is removed from our lights, with a heat gun.
