No matter how tempting.. DO NOT poke the bubbles with a needle. They will start to show as dark spots very shortly afterwards as they collect dirt and start to show the body colour through the stripe. Some of my small ones took a full month to finally disappear, but as noted above by str12 they will go away.
My paint guy stated something similar to your guy... "I just put them down dry" and that's when I immediately decided to do it myself.
*** end of car cleaned with dish soap and water, then endlessly wiped down with Naptha (Coleman stove fuel) to be spotless. Same deal on the aluminum sheet I had the decals laid out on before install.
Here's the install of the trunk strip on my Bee. Not sure which I like the most showing the install or the fact that my Wife of 39 years is right there helping install it to the car we were married in in '82! :thumbsup:
