The moment Ford said the 2015 PP beats the Boss 302 on the track I knew this would happen. I'd still trade my 2015 with 2,000 miles on it for a 2014 Boss 302 with under 10,000 miles.
That has been a big question and you just answered it. I had the 3M and holy crap you better not get the back wet. If yours can do a wet install with the tape across the middle then that's the way to go. Sounds like your kits are better than 3M.
Advantages to both, but if my PP was offered in an auto I would have bought it. Traffic sucks with a stick shift!!! For a daily driver I'd get an auto, for a weekend car definitely get the stick.
My guess is it's a PIA even for the experts. Just finding the center of the car is a PIA. For the $400 labor and to know it's done right, it's worth letting them do it. I just wanted to say I tried and was hoping I'd be good at it. If I did 10 of these installs I'd be good at it.
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A clean, wind free, well lit environment is important. Doing by yourself is too hard dealing with the long hood pieces. I did a wet install on the front stripes and a dry install on the rear stripes. You'd think the wet install would allow the stripes to slide around while getting positioned...
It's actually good I screwed up where I did because the stripes are designed to have a 1 inch gap and not a 2 inch gap. The kit would not have fit properly on the back pieces.
So I tried striping the car myself. I started with the little splitter pieces and they went on fine. Next was the front bumper and quickly wrinkled those and realized I was way over my head with this job. After that I knew I'd have to pay a pro to install these, but decided to put the hood...