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Sun strip advice
I have been asked to produce a sun strip for a car windscreen, is this a speciality vinyl or would MD3 200 printed and laminated be ok. And application wise this is going to be fitted by the customer so am thinking of advising wet apply. Does this sound reasonable
Thanks
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MD3 with lam will be fine but I would apply dry on a screen, the lam make it easy to work with and the bond on glass is not very strong at first so gives you a bit of time to work with it, just remember the screen has a curve any any text unless designed for will look wrong unless you design with the correct arc in the text. Rich
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And it’ll more than likely fail the MOT……… 😕
Best point this out first.
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Yeah, make sure they know it won’t pass the MOT and that they could be made to take it off at any time (assuming the rules are similar to over here).
I haven’t done one in well over a year.
Application would be fine dry if it’s laminated. Otherwise I always done them wet. No speciality vinyl required
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Just a pointer on the MOT issue
A sun strip WILL fail if the windscreen wipers touch it while on. Usually a 4" strip is ok.
Matt
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I had a website on a colleagues car and it failed MOT – so we changed the size so did not touch the wipers and all passed next day 😀
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not sure if you are trying to colour match exactly but ide certainly not go over board for a one off sun strip unless they are paying plenty for it.
cut vinyl rectangle, cut at 7 inches deep i think the standard is. "from memory" you need this because the roof drops in at the centre due to the shape of the window so you are only about 4-5inches in the middle. the ends are further away though… but that wraps round. so you have plenty overlap/excess to trim away.
always fit dry "if you can". that’s goes for anything vinyl… 😉
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Aren’t there markers on the windscreen indicating how much of the screen you can cover? Most cars here have them atleast.
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if MOT is an issue do them on the inside although you need to make a template for rear view mirror or any rain sensor units.
Do loads of these and just use any decent polymeric vinyl – its usually matt black with the tuning guys !!
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Great, thanks for the replies, it will be the customer fitting these so thats why i thought of him doing it wet,
Thanks
Mart
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