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Melbourne: temperature swing is the enemy, not heat
Melbourne rarely cooks vinyl the way the northern capitals do, but it does something harder on adhesive: a 15-degree swing inside a single day, repeatedly. Vinyl expands and contracts with the panel underneath it, and edges are where that shows first. Apply on a mild day rather than a cold morning — adhesive below about 10°C does not key properly and will lift at the corners within weeks. If a vehicle lives outside through a Melbourne winter, the UV laminate is less about sun and more about resisting the constant wet-dry cycle.
