Well, any normal paint or clear coat will require a period for curing and strinking, and yeah its about 3 months but because nowadays, painters use oven baking, and right after oven baking for at least 4 hours, they sun it for a few days which also speeds up the process of the 3 months of fully curing the paint.Wow the difference in the paint tone differs a lot. The edge of the film makes the car looks weird. Sorry cannot accept this. I think it's a wiser choice to do whole panel instead of half panel to avoid seeing that obvious film boundary.
Surprise to know that Opti Coat 2.0 is that lousy. So far only hear good thing about it, maybe because those comments are from consumer level user, not professional detailer like you. But have you ever wonder it is because of the application phase that causes this yellowing? I was planning to do it on the wheel sometime in future by myself some more, as I have no way to buy Optimum Pro coating since I am not a professional detailer.
Talk about this Oracle, actually the name is Orafol is it? The product they created for car wrap is called Oraguard. I found this from internet, I believe is the brand you talking about:
Product details ORAGUARD 283 Stone Guard Film - Graphic Products
Can you tell me where you had your car installed the Orafol film? I am interest to visit the shop and ask them how much they quote for paint protection film installation.
Mention about you painted your car with Glasurit, did you go to the paint shop that uses exclusively Glasurit only or the shop usually use other brand of paint, only use Glasurit upon request by customer? If it was the later, is the paint shop technician use the same spray gun that he has been using to spray other brand paint to spray the Glasurit paint? They cant be so generous change a new spray gun whenever a customer requests for a brand that he never sprayed before in his shop, right?
I have been informed by many that 30 days of waiting period before waxing (or any kind of process) on newly spray paint is usually the minimum. Some 60 days, even 90 days. 2 weeks really sounds short to me. Is that what current paint technology has becomes?
The reason I am staying up late because I want to reply to you all la! LOL
I need to read carefully every word and digest what you guys mean. And then google a bit before asking, not the kind of person who don't do own homework first before asking.
I repainted my car with Glasurit clear coat and their paint. I chose the colour black, to be exact its Nero Aldebaran Black from the Lamborghini Aventadoor. It took them about 30days for just the paint job to be completed. After completed i brought the car home and did not wash it for another 3 weeks, then i did a full correction and leveling to make the paint look like a big big big black mirror.
this was after leveling, i wanted to keep a minimum amount of orange peel so i can still work on it in the future.
and of course sending your car to a paint shop, will never be as perfect as how i finish the paint. This is how the paint looked like after it left the shop and reach my hands
This is how it looked like after i corrected it.
and this is just after 30 days+3 weeks of the paint job. So i dont think it requires 90 days of waiting period. If it did, I would have screwed up the paint on the spot.
As for how the painters use the spray gun, no they dont require a new spray gun for Glasurit paint simply because all automotive paints are solvent and thinner based, they would just soak the metal canisters into a big barrel of thinner to wash it. Its a normal thing and procedure after a car had been painted. Oh btw, I requested the use of the paint and clear, they just bought the paint for my car's usage.
As for the film, i didnt install the film, but i know shops that does it, I would recommend this shop call Getto sticker and vinyl, their workmanship is good and the price is reasonable.