Anyone had their car wrapped

[whitecrook]

Thinking about getting new model 3 wrapped vinyl to protect paint and change the colour . My 140i is pretty chipped on front and has a few scuffs and things after 3 yrs.

Going vinyl rather than ppf as its lighter can cover whole car

Has anyone done this / is their anything i should consider

 

[Biz.Kid09]

I haven't but definitely do some research before you go for it, a lot of places popped up recently from the hype of Yiannamize etc etc. Checking local car club pages on facebook or something could lead you to a good place. If done properly it can look great but ive seen so many awful ones its scary.

I think it would help to do some research also into the actual material itself, so if you do go for a quote you are a bit more informed and can question the quality of material they are using and so forth.

 

[whitecrook]

I haven't but definitely do some research before you go for it, a lot of places popped up recently from the hype of Yiannamize etc etc. Checking local car club pages on facebook or something could lead you to a good place. If done properly it can look great but ive seen so many awful ones its scary.

I think it would help to do some research also into the actual material itself, so if you do go for a quote you are a bit more informed and can question the quality of material they are using and so forth.

Sure. Theres a place near me that quoted 5 days nearly 2K£ use Avery films they take all the bits off to get the best finish. Ill check out place in person course.

Has anyone wrapped their motor and then had it unwrapped? How is the paint? Ive seen vinyl signwriting removed from vehicles and the paint underneath usually looks nee

 

[sovietspybob]

I've not had one myself but it seems they're quite like resprays, there's a huge spectrum of quality out there. Some cars i've seen in car parks etc have looked really terrible but done well they can look really good.

Bear in mind if its a lease or PCP which you're planning on handing back it'll probably need to be removed before hand so budget for that too as they're not the sort of thing you can just peel off in 15mins on the side of the road.

 

[kaiowas]

A wrap can protect from very light abrasion or sun damage, swirls etc but it won’t give you anywhere near the same protection as PPF. It’s so thin* that a stone chip or decent scuff could easily still damage the underlying paint.

*Different use case to you but I wrapped my own track car using Avery Supreme and it’s so thin that if you know where to look you can see colour differences due to variation in the underlying panels. My car has panels with a least 2 different factory colours on them, filler and fluorescent orange in areas that had either faded to white or been protected by other stickers - My wrap is hiding a multitude of sins! Where the differences were really obvious I started giving the panels a quick and dirty rattle can job to even out the variation before wrapping

 

[whitecrook]

I've not had one myself but it seems they're quite like resprays, there's a huge spectrum of quality out there. Some cars i've seen in car parks etc have looked really terrible but done well they can look really good.

Bear in mind if its a lease or PCP which you're planning on handing back it'll probably need to be removed before hand so budget for that too as they're not the sort of thing you can just peel off in 15mins on the side of the road.

yeah no lease that would be a waste i will purchase car outright and look for the wrap to mainly protect the exterior and would hope to remove it in a few years either replace or sell the car

 

[whitecrook]

A wrap can protect from very light abrasion or sun damage, swirls etc but it won’t give you anywhere near the same protection as PPF. It’s so thin* that a stone chip or decent scuff could easily still damage the underlying paint.

*Different use case to you but I wrapped my own track car using Avery Supreme and it’s so thin that if you know where to look you can see colour differences due to variation in the underlying panels. My car has panels with a least 2 different factory colours on them, filler and fluorescent orange in areas that had either faded to white or been protected by other stickers - My wrap is hiding a multitude of sins! Where the differences were really obvious I started giving the panels a quick and dirty rattle can job to even out the variation before wrapping

it would stop chips in the paint on the bonnet though?

i need to find someone who’s ran a wrap for 3+ years removed it and is there any evidence of paint damage from chips etc

is the vinyl much thinner than standard sign livery vinyl?

 

[AWPC]

TBH it never ever looks as good as a proper paintjob in direct sunlight especially looks flat & dull! Wrapping a vehicle costs about £2.5K respraying body panels costs about £400-500 per panel! Our roads are in such bad condition its very hard to keep any car looking perfect all the time.

Plastidip is an alternative its liquid peelable rubber paint but is fairly strong (although flat & dull finish not as bad as vinyl though). Costs about £5K for a pro to do but you can DIY just time consuming (plastidip paint is very cheap to buy around £12-15 a can masking the car & the labour to do this is where all the money goes if you pay someone to do it otherwise patience & DIY!).
Check fonzis channel out some stunning dip jobs there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J6rRj98A5s&pp=sAQA

 

[Temujin]

I've not heard of a vinyl wrap that doesn't damage the underlying paint, though much of that will be due to the quality of the paint job in the first place.
Be prepared for the possibility of remedial work should you ever want to remove it!