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Summary: Do not pressure wash a vehicle that has graphics and decals. Learn how to apply vehicle decals and graphics from a professional in this free automotive video.
Seth Sullivan is the owner/operator of Sullivan Productions and Firehouse Graphix in Arab, AL. Seth began professionally applying automotive graphics in 1994. His company creates and...read more
"In this clip, we'll be covering how to apply vehicle graphics. After all the vehicle graphics are applied, there's a few things you want to remember. First of all, you want to make sure everything is cleaned up. Wipe down the car. With a new car, you really want it to look especially clean when you give it back with their new graphics. As in this case, it's a black car so you have a lot of fingerprints and everything. Get it spotless. Give it back to the customer. Be sure to tell your customer thought that with the graphics, you don't want to pressure wash. You want to wait until about 2 or 3 weeks before you pressure wash. Otherwise, the graphics will blow right off. Same thing with a brush. A lot of departments will take brushes and brush their vinyl. That's fine after a couple of weeks. Let the vehicle sit in the sun. Let the vinyl bake onto the vehicle, because then it'll be really hard to remove. You can hand wash it, but be very careful with the points and corners. Make sure before you deliver it you take one last hand, go over everything on it, make sure all the points are crossed. Everything is smooth to the touch on the vehicle and you'll be good to go. Make sure to throw a nice little coat of wax on in about a month. It should be good. All of the graphics applied, everything is done. We're good, so it's time to go drive the car. Have a good day. "
eHow Article: Applying Vehicle Graphics: Post-application Care
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evuser16910 said
on 8/2/2008 your great at that!