It takes time, it takes some skill, but quite doable. Pretty much need a heat gun and a credit card more or less. Maybe a few pointy fine tools for edges, an exacto knife, youtube it… plenty people who wrap a whole car. Doesn’t have to be the 3m carbon fiber, could be flat/matte, any color doesn’t have to be even black. Etc…
Considering most of us are DIY, some even have shops or access to shops… its a perfectly viable option.
The 3M stuff is high quality but more pricey due to brand, when it comes to the carbon wraps, other brands are shitty but cheaper… 3m is the best period, but for other wraps there’s cheap wraps for sure.
About Peeling- The vinyl should not peal if it was applied correctly the material is very adhesive. If you are worried about peeling you can use edge tape on the edges to help secure down any edges you could see giving any problems.
About Scratching- The material is very protective, paint scratches easier than the vinyl. If you ran into any scratch you could also have a panel repainted and applied. That is by far the nicest part about the vinyl, the ease to replace it.
The material leaves NO residue. Trust me it doesn’t its one of the property’s of the material. Ordinary vinyl well but the vinyl we use for vehicle wraps is 3m Control Tac, and it was created specifically for vehicles.
LogosPrint.com (Not sure about the rules on posting links but I will take it down if I need to.) Check out our photo album of the vehicle wraps. No 240 or imports even but gives you an idea what you can do with the material.
Actually I know what I’m talking about and I guess both of you idiots shouldn’t do it at all because you are just plain ol’ fashion idiots? It seems like you kiddies can’t let go off the fact that my fenders cracked having already been cracked/bondo’d by the previous owner/body shop and the fact they are rusted 20 year old fenders. They were already cracked/fucked that my roller couldn’t do shit for it, had to do what I had to do to fit 17x9.5+15 with 255s on an s13 (hello?). Your hate is laughable at best considering the kind of crap that’s considered ‘hot’. Again I never say my car looks good, but it drives good and I love it Hmm maybe I need to make zipties stick out, flat paint it canadian tire style! NOT!
Anyways back on the subject, it’s not as hard or expensive as some of you make it sound. Plenty youtube DIY. As long as you have a nice clean surface and a quality vynl it’s good to go.
Watching a DIY video on youtube will not help you succeed in vinyl. Vinyl is a first hand thing, and to properly wrap a vehicle it takes skill. Why do you think myself and the companies I work for charge 1000+ to do a proper vinyl job?
Again, I’m not even going to begin to get into detail. You do the exact same thing with this subject as you do with “amazing paint jobs” that you see in PICTURES with zero first hand experience.
Not to defend him or anything, but just because a shop charges $1000+ doesn’t mean it’s hard, it just means its probably time consuming. Replacing your braking system would run you 200-500$+ if you took it to a shop… or you could buy the rotors, pads and install the shit yourself for 100$ or less. We all know shops charge a fuck load to do anything, which is why most of us are DIY’ers… and TBH… if I could buy (as stated in this post, I don’t know the actual cost of them, never looked it up.) them for 150$… I could try 13 times to get it right for the price to pay you (or whereever you work, or any other shop that would apply vinyl)… I personally have quite a bit of faith in myself to try 13 times and get it right… and I’m sure after all that experience of trying 13 times, I’d be able to do it perfectly the next time. lol.
No thats completely true, however with vinyl…it’s not as easy as he seems to think. Especially if he wants that “perfect” look he’s trying to portray.
Some of the top vinyl companies in Ontario charge even more then a paint job, but when they’re done, you can’t even tell it’s vinyl. There’s things you have to learn within the vinyl that will either turn out horribly bad or look “ok” until you perfect it.
It’s like someone learning to snowboard. They may be good at it but you can still see they suck and unless they’ve had years of practice and experience they’ll continue to show everyone how much they suck. Until you can properly do vinyl it will come out shitty and it will show, regardless of the higher grade material you buy.
EDIT: Also, vinyl does scratch upon installation unless it has a uv coated laminate or the laminate has been built in on a custom order. As well as proper tools…not “just a credit card”
I never knew about vinyling a car until now, I always figured it was like the fast and the furious type vinyls…, on a serious note though I love flat/matte black, and if you can get it vinyl’d like that I might seriously consider it. It looks fucking mint. Least something useful came out of this thread, somehow I managed to learn something.
It’s time consuming and labor costs, but anyone can learn to do it.
If some grandma can do it her walls, so can you3M has a few ‘fan sites’ including one bigger one that’s kind of like a blog for the carbon stuff. The ones in question are basically architectural finishes. People have done toilette seats, car interior pieces, iphones, computer/other electrical gadgets, parts of cars, whole cars, you name it. It’s quality stuff but more costly. There are knock offs for cheap but are not as good. The point is you can do it and just need some practice. Martino just likes to talk shit to me as usual. If I built a space shuttle he’d still knit pick about some bullshit to try to attack me. Bottom line. Time consuming and labor costs.
Considering alot of the guys here wana be ‘different’, and ‘unqiue’ or DIY, or whatever, this is a perfectly viable option. I mean if you can fuck up spray painting, at least fuck up a few times with vynl and learn from it. No one can do it right from the first time that’s kind of common sense. We fall, we get up, we try again.
There’s plenty information on the net whether you google it or youtube it on how to do this stuff. Don’t make it holier than thou as if it’s impossible just because you do it.
The good thing about the 3m stuff is that even if you mangle it up, when you heat it back up it straightens out like nothing happened. You can also purchase samples for like 10 bux to toy with. Get a heat gun, a few fine tools, something like a credit card for flat surfaces and start with small items and go after with larger items.
Of course in the end you get what you pay for. So it’s always either money or time. And yes it’ll cost more than 5 bux in canadian tire for spray bobming a car.
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Well sorry but I will back whatever I say by quoting you whenever you attack me
You’re a loser and just love to attack me, you are probably a low life in real life and therefore get a better feeling for yourself by attacking others. I would never attack you unless you attack me first. Which you did as always. Believe me I don’t think of you or keep you in my thoughts every day.
I just said that anyone can do vynl with enough practice and that it’s the labor that costs. It’s either time or money.
Put it like this, if you guys put as much effort into the vinyl as some of you do into spray canning, wet sanding, and clear coating your cars then im sure the outcome would be a lot smoother and overall more appealing considering there are thousands of colors to choose from.
EDIT: Really the only issue to purchasing vinyl is finding somewhere that will sell by the yard, bigger than 48" width. Until you find that…its very expensive.
It seems like you kiddies can’t let go off the fact that my fenders cracked having already been cracked/bondo’d by the previous owner/body shop and the fact they are rusted 20 year old fenders. They were already cracked/fucked that my roller couldn’t do shit for it, had to do what I had to do to fit 17x9.5+15 with 255s on an s13 (hello?). Your hate is laughable at best considering the kind of crap that’s considered ‘hot’. Again I never say my car looks good, but it drives good and I love it 