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[Dirt VX]

Hi all, Anyone had their cars fully wrapped? Thinking about having it done instead of a respray. Chrome? Carbon fibre?, somethin abit different. Any thoughts?? Cheers

[aron916]

Hi all,
Anyone had their cars fully wrapped? Thinking about having it done instead of a respray. Chrome? Carbon fibre?, somethin abit different. Any thoughts??

Cheers

A few people have done it, full carbon wrap here!
And this, which i think is stunning!

[mscall]

A few people have had full wraps. SteveA and fiveoclockhero's both look great (Matt black and green respectively) and there will be pics in the gallery of both. There is also a carbon vx thread with a full cf effect wrap as well. One of the things that is on my radar to get done eventually Edit: I was too slow

Edited by mscall, 29 July 2010 - 08:01 PM.

[slindborg]

I was gonna wrap mine, but cant be arsed now so will just paint the sodding thing and add vinyl to some areas I want to two tone

[G-Bob]

I was gonna wrap mine, but cant be arsed now so will just paint the sodding thing and add vinyl to some areas I want to two tone

Are you going to two-tone it like a micra colette?

[southpaw]

Chrome?

very shiny but very

Tiger stripes like the 9ff 911 in this month's evo

[Opel-Gt]

The wraps I have seen look nice when new but scratch very easy and look like the car has been washed with a brillo pad in a very short time.

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[Opel-Gt]

This is the "brillo" effect I mean.

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[vx220soon]

^^ That purple looks brilliant!

[MAXR]

I had my 2-Eleven Wrapped, It did do the job it was intended to do which was to protect the paintwork. I wouldn't do it if you just want a nice looking car as it does scratch, show marks if petrol, bird poo or tar gets on your car and stone chips will split the surface.

[siztenboots]

sub zero temperatures make it shrink and go brittle

[Ouchie]

sub zero temperatures make it shrink and go brittle

Global warming FTW!!11!



I remember looking at Godzilla at the show and thinking it was either and old wrap or a poor wrap or a really bad respray. Maybe that is as good as it gets. From a distance it looks good but up close you see the imperfections too clearly.

Edited by Ouchie, 30 July 2010 - 12:28 PM.

[Steve B]

Fiveoclocks green looks good close up, no stractches or stone chips. I've enquired about getting mine done in the mclaren\vodafone day glow orange, quote was £1200 only thing stopping me is the Mrs strongly objects to me "ruining" the car and its not something I can do anyway and hide..

[fiveoclock]

[color=#000000;][font="Calibri;"]One of my friends also has full carbon vehicle wraps on his car. It looks absolutely nice. I am also going to get the matte black vinyl wrap on my new car. Just want to protect the paint of it so wrapping is the best way to do that.[/color][/font]

Due to the inferior way VXs are painted when you remove the wrap it removes the paint

[pete-r]

Wrap does scratch easy but it'll lot look a lot better if you you a good quality wrap which is fully coloured (lots are a coloured top coat over a grey/white substrate. I've had my windscreen surround on now maybe 5 years and it's still ok. Mark is right on the paint too, you have to be very careful not to take chunks of paint off the car when removing. I unwrapped a hard top for TurboLuca a few years back and it took longer to do than the other wrap would have taken

Edited by pete-r, 13 June 2017 - 01:38 PM.

[fezzasus]

You realise you're replying to spam, right?

[fiveoclock]

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[Nev]

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[fiveoclock]

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