new back window on my 93 vert looks nice (pics inside)L@@K

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itsallstock93vert
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nachos hooked it up


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where/howd you get that?

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looks like the one I did on mine out of clear vinyl... wrinkles are the suck.

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wrinlkes will go away in 7 to 10 days its still fresh it will stretch nachos upolts ry is the bomb

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Where'd you have it done? How much it set you back if you dont mind me askin? I

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window looks good man...do not see many like it +1 to you boy!!!

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160 installed and fix all edges that were hanging off nachos in north hollywood are top notch they did my impala a few years back AAAAAA+++++

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itsallstock93vert wrote:160 installed and fix all edges that were hanging off nachos in north hollywood are top notch they did my impala a few years back AAAAAA+++++
$160 installed!?! you get all the hookups!

only quote I ever got was in the $300-400 installed range. Granted the part alone online is $140 (although someone said it was going up).

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itsallstock93vert wrote:160 installed and fix all edges that were hanging off nachos in north hollywood are top notch they did my impala a few years back AAAAAA+++++
You might want to give me some details([email protected]).

Im picking up a vert this friday and the rear windows are teh suck

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nachos auto upolstery 818 985 5825- 985 9344 12443 victory blvdnorth hollywood 91606 they have been around for ever

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No offense but if someone handed me my vert back with a window like that and took $160 from me in return I would have kicked them in the teeth. The upper right side and/or lower left is pulled too tight. If its quality vinyl its not going to stretch enough to remove those wrinkles and if it does stretch enough you will be replacing it by end of summer because it is cheap.

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hey all work is guaranteed and that was just hours after it was done they said any thing wrong and they would fix it im not worried they said about ten days and it will fix itself

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every forum has its haters

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Whoa back up kemosabe, I'm not hating on anything or anyone, but I do hate seeing people get ripped off by shops that hack their jobs. To me, that window does not look good. I have installed 3 myself and the first 2 had wrinkles, and decent vinyl isnt going to stretch enough to let wrinkles that big simply stretch themselves out and stay that way. I used a premium u/v protected marine-grade vinyl, it was .020 thinner than what ASC used but it was super strong. Before I used it, I tested it out by cutting a few 1 inch wide strips and nailed each end to a board, then I stretched it as far as I could (which wasnt far). Within about 1 minute it shrunk right back to its normal size. Heating it first let me stretch if farther, but it shrunk right back too. Decent clear vinyl doesnt stretch much. When the sun heats it up it will soften and some of the wrinkles might fall out for as long as its warm, but as it cools it will go back to where it was.

It doesnt take much error in sewing the vinyl in to make big ripples. The first one I did was only sewed about 1/8 inch off or so on one side (one of the upper corners) and the wrinkles were as large as what yours are, and after about 3 weeks they hadnt flattened one bit. I even tried a heat gun, a low temperature iron, manually stretching it in other areas, etc. On the second one I was able to adjust the top and lower frames to smooth everything out. I hope I'm wrong and yours flattens out, but if your experience is anything like mine, you'll be going back to that shop in a couple weeks. Sorry if you dont want to hear this but I'm really just trying to give you a heads up.

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thats cool but they have been around and have all the experience they need they are a repuatable shop and have had my whole 62 ss implala done there .... not in your garage thats cool that you did it yourself but took you three times to get it right ....maybe like i said no sweat off my nuts

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come on guys...lets get along


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