Got a piece of my dash wrapped in vinyl...

[RussZS]

So, I've never really been happy with the silver centre section of my dash - it has always been covered in a weird coating which refused to be cleaned up fully.

My 'mate' had a go at doing it too, which resulted in this lovely black mark!!

Not good! So, it's either buy a new one £300!! Or get it wrapped! I opted for the wrap, which cost me £80 all in (took about 90 mins). The job isn't as 'perfect' as I'd like/expect, but it's very good!

However, I'm not totally sure it looks right with the surrounding mundane black plastics?? Thoughts?

Also, I added the F1 decals (a delete option on the car from new) to the front and rear bumpers. Please excuse the state of my car - no tyre dressing!! :newbie:

I kind of like them, makes it look a bit less bland

Thanks,

Russ

 

[Janesy B]

I think that's a marked improvement

 

[Michael Myers]

I think that now looks awesome, good idea!

 

[paradigm]

You paid someone to do that?

Could have done it yourself for £15~

I've done wing mirrors, dash trim peices, allsorts.

 

[RussZS]

Yeah I know it's a bit lazy, but the piece itself is a right pain to get off.

I've bought some 3M stuff from eBay which I'll use to practice on smaller pieces with

 

[TaKeN]

Looks cracking

 

[Lopéz]

Vast improvement, but I'd have done it myself with some 3M DI-NOC

 

[[TW]Fox]

You paid 80 quid for somebody to do that and its not even perfect?!

 

[RussZS]

Correct. It's very, very good, but not quite perfect. Much better than I could have done myself, I'm sure!

 

[stockhausen]

For £80, yew could have bought a half-descent (well, actually a rubbish) BMW

 

[paradigm]

Correct. It's very, very good, but not quite perfect. Much better than I could have done myself, I'm sure!

You say that, but it's really not that difficult. Granted to do wing mirrors it took me a few attempts, but I've only ever bought one sheet of the stuff, so its still cost me less than £20 to (in effect) do it 4 times.

 

[RussZS]

I'll stick to my unreliable but fun, French tat, thanks

 

[RussZS]

The fact that Renault want £350 (retail price) for a replacement piece of plastic is even more shocking! I cannot see how they can justify that at all.

 

[iaind]

For £80, yew could have bought a half-descent (well, actually a rubbish) BMW

WTF?

Looks good I reckon, if you weren't confident about doing it then 80 quid ain't too bad

 

[TS7]

Looks better than before.

 

[[TW]Fox]

For £80, yew could have bought a half-descent (well, actually a rubbish) BMW

 

[Wicksta]

It looks much better, but for £80 I'd want a perfect job!

For £80, yew could have bought a half-descent (well, actually a rubbish) BMW

How much does a fully descended one cost cockhausen? And why would a tree buy a car anyway?

 

[iaind]

I don't think he's familiar with fully descended things

 

[Sukh]

You say that, but it's really not that difficult. Granted to do wing mirrors it took me a few attempts, but I've only ever bought one sheet of the stuff, so its still cost me less than £20 to (in effect) do it 4 times.

Where did you get your big piece of DI-NOC? I did my the back of my phone today and it is amazing stuff, with a bit of heat it really adheres/stretches over curves.

I have crappy plain plastic wing mirrors on my fiesta and want to DI-NOC them for added chav factor.

 

[loltim]

Looks great IMO