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One of my customers called me today and told me they have an issue with a job I did six weeks ago. When he sent me the picture, I was stumped. I've never seen anything like this before...
Notice the brown discoloration on the white striping on the rear cab door. He said the exact same discoloration and pattern is also on the other back door on the other side of the truck. He didn't have a daytime picture, but he said it isn't nearly as noticeable during the day. It doesn't appear brown, but he said if you get it in the right light the rear door striping looks to be more of a matte or "pearl" finish than the bright glossy white. The following are pictures I took right after installation:
It may just be my eyes playing tricks on me, but now that I look at my night time pictures it looks like the back cab door striping may be slightly more dull. Everything on this truck came from one roll of 3M 680CR, the striping was cut and the lettering and upper striping was printed, laminated with 8518 and then cut. The truck was washed and then prepped with alcohol before installation, and it was done inside. This is the layout of how the striping was cut from the 30" roll:
This was the white striping but I changed it to black so it would be visible on here, and for whatever reason the jpeg saved as red and black, but you get the idea. There were two of these cut to make up all of the striping on the whole truck. The two longer horizontal sections are the same length, and are either back cab doors or front cab doors. So it is possible that the two sections of striping on each rear cab door were cut beside each other on the roll, but its possible they were 4' apart on two different sections also. The other smaller piece at the bottom, which was for the forward section of the bed, is fine on both sides of the truck.
My Grimco rep is contacting 3M to see if they have any ideas, but I thought I would ask here too. I am going to replace the striping for them no matter what happened or who is at fault, I would just like to know what the cause of this is.
Notice the brown discoloration on the white striping on the rear cab door. He said the exact same discoloration and pattern is also on the other back door on the other side of the truck. He didn't have a daytime picture, but he said it isn't nearly as noticeable during the day. It doesn't appear brown, but he said if you get it in the right light the rear door striping looks to be more of a matte or "pearl" finish than the bright glossy white. The following are pictures I took right after installation:
It may just be my eyes playing tricks on me, but now that I look at my night time pictures it looks like the back cab door striping may be slightly more dull. Everything on this truck came from one roll of 3M 680CR, the striping was cut and the lettering and upper striping was printed, laminated with 8518 and then cut. The truck was washed and then prepped with alcohol before installation, and it was done inside. This is the layout of how the striping was cut from the 30" roll:
This was the white striping but I changed it to black so it would be visible on here, and for whatever reason the jpeg saved as red and black, but you get the idea. There were two of these cut to make up all of the striping on the whole truck. The two longer horizontal sections are the same length, and are either back cab doors or front cab doors. So it is possible that the two sections of striping on each rear cab door were cut beside each other on the roll, but its possible they were 4' apart on two different sections also. The other smaller piece at the bottom, which was for the forward section of the bed, is fine on both sides of the truck.
My Grimco rep is contacting 3M to see if they have any ideas, but I thought I would ask here too. I am going to replace the striping for them no matter what happened or who is at fault, I would just like to know what the cause of this is.
