Film at 11

I spent Sunday basically doing 2 things:

1) cleaning my orangey orange wheels (after a short but very dirty surprise rainstorm)

2) putting the Tankslapper full 3M kit on the Honda.

Top tips for a successful install:

- make a crap ton of the "solution." They said 8 oz is enough - bullshit. I ended up making 8 then another 12 on top of that. Its 2 drops of J&J Baby Shampoo per 8 oz of fluid.

- spray the solution on the bike, then on the sticky side of the film, place it, then spray the top layer of film. WHEN you have to pull it back off to reapply, go after it with the solution again. You can't possibly use too much.

- if the sticky side gets dry you'll leave fingerprints which sucks. More solution please.

- go ahead and buy the "turbo squeegee" from the site when you get the film. It rocks.

- install it on a warm day. You need to be able to stretch it.

- I found that if I stretched it, shoved it down, and let it "shrink back" it did way better in terms of following the contours than if I tried to just smooth it like saran wrap.

- once you get the hang of the "stretch" method, you will probably find that the pieces are actually a bit too large. Strategic trimming is OK but only as a last resort, and once you've gotten all the bubbles out of the edge.

- speaking of which, be patient and keep stroking out those bubbles (and be sure to keep wetting the top of the film!) eventually they'll stop coming back up but it takes a while.