Easy, no. It's also not easy to line up a fender, 2 doors, and a quarter panel all on a car that got hit hard in the side and had to have the uniside replaced. But taking it to a bodyshop is where it should be done right since they should have the training, experience, and most importantly care enough to get it done. All this would be a lot better discussion if we had a picture so that we knew what we were talking about.

As far as baking it on - give me a lesson here - does the heat help the double sided tape material hold better? I'd be concerned about the heat from the booth expanding the ducktail if it's a plastic based material. That's why a lot of emblems use a foam adhesive rather than just regual tape. The emblems expand in the heat from the sun, then cool, and when that all happens the adhesive can give way since the plastic emblems expand and contract differently than the sheetmetal. The foam adhesive tapes act as a barrier to keep this from happening.

I too have the CDC DT, and since it's glass it may react differently than what the others.

 

Well it sounds like your body shop used the stock adhesive stuff, my body shop put extra stuff on there, thats prolly why he doesn't want to remove it.
He said, the ducktail is like a soft pretzel when you put it on there and its a one shot deal. You have to start from the middle and he said he's perfectly centered on the brake light so.. i dunno, like i said, he did work on it, and got it to look better my doing some **** so i'm gonna leave it.

it doesn't look bad anymore.

 

thats what happened with mine. the center section expands and contracts with temperature so at times it looks lined up and other times it looks off. maybe i'm too picky but imo even a really nice product thats misaligned doesnt look as good as one thats nice & straight. this is the main reason i'm looking at the 3d 1 piece ducktail. even though they are almost identical the 3 piece looks better to me but may not be worth the hassle. i'm still debating.

dont ya just luv mods

 

yeah i love them alright, i just got my credit card bill, umm all i can say is i'm Done for now! I haven't even touched the engine yet.

 

I was very skeptical of having a body shop installing my CDC spoiler and aligning all 3 peices perfectly. I've seen some mis-aligned spoilers at car shows and so I can imagine (w/o pix) what you went through. After debating the issue, I went ahead and installed the spoiler myself. I took my time and made measurements many, many times, before and during the install including drilling 10 holes into the back. I'm quite happy with the alignment, and its too bad that some body shop installers are not perfectionists who take their work to heart.

 

I did my 3D Carbon 3 pc myself and it took about an hour to line everything up and put it on. Quite a nerve-wracking experience but in the end it did line up perfectly and I've had nothing but good compliments. I haven't seen the expansion/contraction issue myself, the gap between the parts seems to hide it well!!

 

I also did mine on my own, CDC. The templates the provide SUCK! It took time to line it up, but it came out perfect, I'm very happy I did it myself, I don't trust other, they don't care how it looks, as long as they get their money.

 

Looks great!