Mastering PPF - Full Hood Bulk Install - Mercedes GLE 350 Benz - Paint Protection Film How To DIY
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2023
- Learn how to bulk this Mercedes Benz GLE350 hood. On this hood we use a 4 corner tack. We bulk almost all of the hoods we install Paint Protection Film on. Bulking hoods is easier, faster, and very customizable. Follow along as I go over the full process, step by step from start to finish. Learn some new tricks, tips, and techniques on this Paint Protection Film installation. We'll cover stretching, how to deal with ridges, squeegeeing, tacking the edges, wrapping edges and corners, and heat sealing the edges. PPF How to Tutorial
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Best video on step by step install with a good explanation ive seen so far👍
Thank you. 👍 I really appreciate you taking the time to leave me some feedback. It's great to hear that the video is useful.
I think so too.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to make it
No problem. I appreciate you leaving a comment. It's nice to hear that the videos are helpful! 👍🏻😁
Still my favorite video for PPF. Learned a lot.
Awesome! It's great to hear that you found the v8deo helpful. That was my motivation for starting the channel! Thank you for taking the time to let me know. It helps keep me motivated. 😁👍🏻
Straight masterclass. PPF is my main struggle
I super appreciate the feedback. Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. How long have you been installing PPF? It definitely has a pricey learning curve. If you are a detailer that is a great start! It's super important to be detail orientated. You are probably your hardest critic! You'll get it, it just takes practice. Welcome to the channel!
Hello, I'm a person who washes his car as a hobby in Korea. I saw this first ppf video and succeeded at once. I subscribe to it
Awesome, I'm glad the video was helpful! Welcome to the channel. 👍😀
Great Video, Thank You !
I appreciate the feedback. Thank you for checking out the channel! 👍🏻
You did such an awesome job, and you made it look easy. Great video and thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much 😊 I appreciate you watching the video and leaving a comment! Do you work with PPF at all or did you just randomly come across this video?
Thank you for sharing!
Of course! Thanks for watching. 👀
Great content and great explanation thumb up
Your feedback is very helpful. Thank you! Knowing the content is good means a lot. Do you install PPF for a living, or are you just getting started? 🤔 😁
Nice job man thanks very much !!!
No problem. Thanks for the comment! 😁👍🏻
Great video thanks for sharing
Thank you for checking out the channel and the feedback! 😁 👍🏻
I have a 88 monte carlo scheduled to wrap the full body. The hood has serious ridges in it plus a raised scoop area. Thank you for the tips.😊
No Problem! That should be fun! I enjoy projects like that from time to time. How long have you been installing PPF? Do you mind saying what you are charging for the full body install on that one? info@encorewindowtinting.com if you don't what to leave the price in these comments.
I love your work
I really appreciate this feedback. It helps keep me motivated. 👍
Thank you so Mach brother
No problem! Thank you for checking out the channel. 👍🏻😁
Great job 👍
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback. 👍🏻
Very awesome explanation
Thank you! 😁
Brother good 👍
Thank you!
Great video. It will be pretty cool if you make a video on how different types film distortions are created and how to avoid them? Like dry spots, silvering work, work marks….
Thank you. This idea for a video is a good one. I have been working on a list of (and a few problems recorded already) problems like you are talking about. I'll add those to my list of issues/distortions. Great ideas 💡 👍🏻
Hey buddy, commented on a few videos now from the Uk. I tried that new ultra tack on an R8 I have in at the moment, bulked the rear spoiler and must say while it’s great, I can’t help but prefer the adhesive on the reaction film
I really appreciate the feedback on the reaction vs. ultratack. I'll order a roll of the reaction and see what I think. That was the next material I was thinking about ordering. I just installed the ultratack on the hood of a Porsche Macon. Very very tacky and made the install a bit more difficult. Pretacking was a big problem with all the work time required on that hood. 👍
@@EncorePPFtint yeah I used the ultra tack on the spoiler and the adhesive was too aggressive, I ended up changing it today to reaction. Works very well with hot water and a bit of iso in the tack. The ultra tack was too aggressive for that and like you say the pre tack is very annoying and time consuming
@@rickw8645 Great feedback. We're going to order a roll of the reaction on Monday.
This doesn’t look easy and that’s with this expert making it look a lot easier than it is. It’s like putting a screen protector on your phone, but this screen has the surface area of your car with all kinds of curves and bends too. Not to mention it’s not pre-fitted for your car. You have to precisely trim it without scratching your paint or leaving jagged edges when you cut.
Years of experience. Just like any trade, it takes a lot of time to get really good at it... 👍 Thank you for the comment! 😀
Sure doesn’t and yet I’m going to try it myself anyways because I refuse to pay 6k to plastic wrap my car. I’ve looked into the vinyl wrap/PPF business before out of curiosity because it’s a great business model, low overhead, high margins. As much skill and time that it takes is not worth 6k. 6k is a full paint job with primer, several coats of base and several coats of clear, a way more time consuming process, a far more difficult process and skill demand, more expensive materials and labor, everything. Idk how they’re getting away with charging 6k for full car PPF’s it’s literally insane. So I’m going to do it myself.
If you think this is difficult go see how difficult a full paint job is. Body work, Sanding, tacking, degreasing, primer, sanding, base, let the entire car dry, wet sand, base, let the entire car dry, wet sand, base, let the entire car dry, sand, clear coat the entire car several times over, letting each coat dry/cure, maybe a flow coat depending on the paint you’re going for, and then an insanely detailed polishing procedure that requires to you cut and polish the entire car with several different compounds. Every step of the process is more difficult than PPF/Vinyl, and your doing literally like 20 steps, all of which involve the entire car being sprayed, sanded, wiped, polished, etc. How can these 2 jobs cost the same? They can’t. When you look at it through the lens of what painting a car would cost vs what PPF costs, PPF looks like an insane rip off, and looks like child’s play in comparison to the difficulty of paint. I don’t get it to be honest, it makes no sense, I think maybe dealers installing it have ruined the market and made it crazy, but it should be like getting window tint installed, granted a little more expensive because it’s going to take more time because you’re doing more surface are but you get the just. It’s a lot closer to window tint than it is paint in terms of complexity, so how is something that’s as complex as window tint being charged like something that’s as complex and involved as paint?
im trying to Start this kind of bussiness and your technic and explanation plain and straight im gonna try this. so the tack solution is rub. alcohol. . .. i more thing i can do this wrapping if my car motor wa coated with Wax of Oilbase wax? or much better to wash it before?
You need to make sure that everything is very clean and washed before you start your installation. Here is a video that goes over all the steps: ua-cam.com/video/wWwMDXjHy2c/v-deo.html
Congratulations, you did a great job. Do you apply Primer to the corners before applying?
Thank you. We don't use any primers here at the shop. I don't recommend the use of primers. 👍🏻
What kind of squeeze are you using? Great video by the way🙏🏻
Thank you for the comment! This squeegee is my favorite PPF tool in all my 19 years of installing! I got this squeegee (the orange one) at SEMA (in Las Vegas) a couple years ago from a PPF manufacture based in China (named UPPF). While getting you the link I just found this set of 3 squeegees on Amazon today and ordered 3 of them. I think these are going to be exactly what I'm looking for!! They will be delivered Wednesday and I'll let you know how they feel. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BWHD4D7S
Very useful video. I'm wondering the heat 690 Fahrenheit or Celsius degrees? Did the hood wax before wrap? Thanks for your time to answer my questions.
The degrees are in Fahrenheit. I did not wax the hood. BUT I have heard the applying was to the tall parts (ridges) on the hood, which will help with pretacking during the installation. Thus giving you more work time.
may we know how to make those spray solution? Im so glad I found this video
Of course, I even made a video about it. 😁 Here is a link: ua-cam.com/video/xGjn2rwh-W4/v-deo.html
Very informative and great video! Maybe you can help me with a recommendation. I want to buy Xpel ppf and try this on the hood of my personal vehicle. Would you might know where to get ppf film if not a licensed installer?
What kind of vehicle are you looking to do the hood on? have you installed PPF before? Reach out to me by email (in the description) and I can give you some options for buying PPF. We have a few options on the material side that we offer to our viewers. Are you stuck on Xpel? There are plenty of great materials out there.
That's a lot of work for just wrapping the hood up, definitely worth the price I paid for my SUV full body PPF, costed me about 2700 bucks.
Do you know what brand PPF they used?
It's definitely a lot of work. I'm not sure where you are, but $2700 for a full vehicle is very inexpensive. Great deal and prob worth every penny. We charge double to triple that for a full vehicle Paint Protection Film. 👍
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I can easily say that they don't have same quality that you guys offer. besides, the market price average in our country is $3000, but not more than $3500.
My car was serviced about 10 days ago at V-KOOL which is more expensive than 3M dealers.
I live in Saudi Arabia btw.
2023 Kia telluride.
Yeah, I bet pricing is very different from country to country. Sounds like you've got some great coverage, and your vehicle is well protected. 👍 That's awesome. I'm a huge believer in PPF. It does it job! 😁
How would you heat seal areas that don’t have access like the hood? Like the bumper, roof, or quarter panels? Do you just use the tool that you used to pre seal them? Or do you run heat over the seams and then use that same tool?
I'm not sure exactly what tool you are talking about. With a hood, I just open it and hit all of those edges with a heat gun and my finger. If I can not get to the edge with my finger, I push the edge down with a Bondo card. If I can't reach the edge with heat I play it by ear. It's probably tucked in so far that I can't reach it (or see it) that heat sealing isn't needed
Thanks for the video! What is in the tact solution?
Here's a link to a video that goes over the slip solution. ua-cam.com/video/xGjn2rwh-W4/v-deo.html
It's Seventh generation dish soap. 7-12ml per gallon. 👍🏻
@@EncorePPFtint awesome, appreciate it!
@scmtkings4 definitely. Thank you for taking a look. Hope to see you around. 👍🏻
What tint slip product do you use? Might give it a try. I do a lot of Toyota’s and the Supra and tundra would be good candidates oh and the new Sequoia (which I hate the bumper) 😳
Currently we are using Joy dish soap with a lot more soap for our tint installs. I'll measure how much soap we use per gallon. It's 3 pumps. lol I've never measured it. We are working on the ratios for the same Seventh Generation dish soap with tint. I'd like to only use one soap if possible. Toyota makes some tough cars to put ppf on. All three that you mentioned are on the harder list. I hate installing PPF on truck bumpers. The bumpers have such rounded corners and that makes it more a difficult install. A lot of stretching or relief cuts are needed.
@@EncorePPFtint I too try to stay with one type of slip, but I have found 7th works best for ppf and I do a cross mix for my tint (tint slime mix onto the glass and j&j onto the tint)
Ya, Toyota’s do suck and that is what I work on mainly on a daily average. Like I did a Sequoia then a sxe rav 4 and now a Sienna. This does help my installs on other vehicles though. I mainly do hybrid installs with the ppf. I find it is much easier and better coverage.
I do appreciate your video’s for they give me other ideas that I have not thought of or confirm what I am doing!
@marcclayburn6669 interesting. The joy works great for tint. I'll measure out how much I use and get back to you.
Happy New Year! 🎉
The "milky" you talk about is mpst noticible in black paint jobs it seems. Scared me first time I saw it.
Yeah, Black shows everything. You can even see the drying process on a white car. It's does make you wonder the first time you notice it. Fortunately I came from window tinting. The same thing happens when It's drying. So I knew exactly what it was. :)
how did you cut that circle for the hood emblem without cutting into the paint?
Lots of practice. 😁 Did you watch this video yet? It's all about trimming PPF on the paint. ua-cam.com/video/W-VDh0mtssw/v-deo.html
What is that solution made of? Thx✌️
Hey, here's a video that I made about my installation solutions: ua-cam.com/video/xGjn2rwh-W4/v-deo.html
Hello, can you share link or name of protection film used ?
Definitely, here is link to the PPF that we install. tektonpf.com/our-brands/premiumshield/#:~:text=Our%20PremiumShield%20Elite%20Nexgen%20range,against%20staining%20from%20environmental%20elements.
What’s your type of slip and ratio in the tank? Thanks!
I just changed the soap I use in my slip solution yesterday. It's working great thus far. Big improvement over what I was using, in this summer heat.
Seventh generation is the brand and you want the dishwashing liquid. Available at Walmart, Amazon, target... thus far I'm mixing 5-7ml per gallon. 👍🏻a.co/d/eKxz9mC - link to product on Amazon.
can you plz provide the links for the materials? PPF roll, the blade, soap (or so) etc?
Check the descriptions of these videos for links to the products I use. Feel free to reach out by email to get a price on bulk PPF or a kit. Info@encorewindowtinting.com We do not use PPF that you can buy on the internet.
Here is all the info for the soap: ua-cam.com/video/xGjn2rwh-W4/v-deo.html
Here is all the info for the tools I use: ua-cam.com/video/oQlGzV0AAF0/v-deo.html
First! Hey have you seen Dustin’s new hair cut?????
I'm not sure that I have. What's he got going on? I'll have to go over and take a look.
@@EncorePPFtint hahahaha! With his hat on, he looks like he has no hair. His head is like a Q ball 🤣🤣🤣
Hi very good Video, I have done the front end of my Ferrari 458 Italia, my first time doing PPF so loads of waste ?? but in the end got it done not too bad, one of main problems is my Bonnet which does not look too bad but if you look very carefully at it it looks like creases and scraggily lines under the film, also when I did my bonnet I did not stretch the four corners like you did ??, as I thought as it was quite flat there was no need, what do you think, also wrapping my corners not very well as I have ended up with small fingers on several, and even ended up cutting some of the fingers out to try and improve the look, again any help or advice much appreciated, Regards Eddie
I can Definity understand a lot of waste. That happens to all of us at the beginning. As far as the bonnet goes it sounds like you might have a lot of work and stretch lines in the adhesive. depending on the year, I would try something like a 4 corner tack and see if that helps. Also for flatter hood take a look at my tesla hood video. That might be a much better approach. ua-cam.com/video/mc4XbS_5tQc/v-deo.html Here is another video that goes over different techniques for doing corners: ua-cam.com/video/ZTNeP_ptYDk/v-deo.html
Let me know if any of this turns out to be helpful! :)
Hi Brent, thanks for your reply and links, I will remove the PPF from my Bonnet and have another go after to watching your Vids several times, Regards Edie
Let me know how it goes! I hope my videos help make a difference. PPF definitely has a learning curve, but you can learn so much from videos like these. 👍🏻
that corner that you heatsealed was the shallower one towards the headlight or the sharper one towards the front grill?
All of the edges do get heat sealed. Once you are done with your install you go back and warm up every edge and then push it down. In this video the process of heat sealing the edges is mixed in with the wrapping of the edges because the edges need to be heated before they are wrapped under the hood. "Heat sealing" might not have been a good word to use in this video where every edge is getting wrapped. Heat sealing the edges is more on edges that are visible to while standing and looking at the car. You'd have more edges like that on bumpers, fenders, headlights, and mirrors. Any edges that isn't getting wrapped. Check out this video for more details about finishing edges (including heat sealing). ua-cam.com/video/64mex0Ps9uI/v-deo.html
Great question, by the way!
@@EncorePPFtint thank you. "Heatseal" might've been the wrong term because yes every edge needs to be carefully inspected and heated at the end. I was asking about these specific corners because one is shallower and easier to wrap around and push down and one is pointier and harder to nicely finish because all the bunching up on the back of the hood. I am now working on a gle 53amg and i have "drawn" some inspiration from your video 😁. Thank you for your work
@@texfromro Awesome, that is great to hear. The process of heating up the little bit of extra bunched up material I call "the melt method". I get the film very hot and then push on it with my finger. It causes the film to melt and stick to itself. Here is another video that I made about 6 different techniques I've used to wrap corners. I explain (what I call) the melt method. ua-cam.com/video/ZTNeP_ptYDk/v-deo.html
Hallo.nice job, what's the warrant for the ppf
Most name brand PPF comes with a 10 year warranty now. It covers parts and labor. 👍🏻
Which are one of the best brands
We use CovrGurd, PremiumShield, and SunTek. Are you looking to buy some bulk PPF?
Good job bud,what’s the best blades to trim ppf ? 🙏
Thank you! I only use OLFA blades. I've tried some aftermarket blades, and they have all sucked so far. When you are trimming on paint, you really need a nice consistency sharp blade. The other brands I've tried have not been as sharp and dull very quickly.
Ok thank you sir god bless
Another question sir if u don’t mind,which ppf do you think is the best? Xpel,suntek,3m,stek 🥶
The thing is that all of these brands have different PPF products. Anywhere from 2-6 different PPF products in their lineup. We use PremiumShield (NextGen), which is owned by Eastman. I really like this ppf. We're testing some SunTek right now.
I think they all make pretty good products.
Car you teach me how to do ppf
Yes, we offer training here at the shop. Let me know if you are intersected! :)
So what happens if you scratch it ? replace the whole section I assume ?
Do you have a time in the video of what I said or what I am working on? What happens if I scratch the PPF?
I just realized you probably weren't talking about the installation, but PPF in general. If you scratch it lightly, it is self-healing. If you scratch it bad, you can live with it (it is a sacrificial product) and then replace it when you are ready. The material can stand up to a lot. It's better to replace the ppf than repainting damaged paint.
how long would you recommend to keep the car covered, before regular use/driving?
People should be good to use their vehicle normally as soon as they pick it up. There should be no wait time for this to cure or whatever.
Is it hard or easier than wrapping?
I would say it's quite different. If I had to choose, I'd say installing PPF is harder. They can both be challenging, especially when you are learning. :)
hello dear, where can i find this much wider PPF ?
We do sell bulk PPF to our viewers in the USA. Other than that, you can reach out to manufacturers. There are plenty of them that ship ppf all over the world from China.
@@EncorePPFtint i live in Turkey and im just a person not a company, could you suggest me any link please?
Where can I buy the stuff?
Reach out to us by email, and we'll give you some options. We can ship full bulk rolls. Info@encorewindowtinting.com
What do you charge for a full front end xpel ppf on this kind of car?
Thank you for the question.🙂 There will be a few things that affect the pricing. This specific car should have come in right around $2000-2400. Our full front end package covers the full bumper, hood, and fenders. As well as the headlights, sideview mirrors and door cup handles. At this price we are not removing the fender flairs and the only part that isn't a kit is the hood (and maybe the mirrors).
@@EncorePPFtintwow, how much for a full car 😅
@@phatmiike Quite a bit more. Normally between 7-10K
So what’s the slip mix?
This hood was probably done with 10ml of soap.
ua-cam.com/video/xGjn2rwh-W4/v-deo.html That is a link to a short video that goes over my slip and tack solutions, products, and ratios. 👍🏻
@@EncorePPFtint I found that one after asking. We’ve steady gone up on ours, but we use Film On. It may require more. Great videos
I've tried the film-on in the past but never got the ratio dialed in. Definitely try adding more soap if you are finding that the film is tacking too quickly.
already messed up when it folded on itself
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This has to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen
I'm guessing you haven't seen much? Have you ever watched shorts?
@@EncorePPFtint only shorts I watch have a beautiful ass in them.