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Very Nice !!! Do you know any place in Southern Cal LA area or Northern Cal bay area? I know LA is much cheaper than Northern Cal.
My bro just got his m4 and Range Rover dome at premium auto styling, they did an awesome job, price was about at market. I got mine done for about $1500 in North Carolina. And he did a great job
I actually just ordered some samoles and was on the fence about ordering a 3M gloss yellow sample, too... just trying to pick the color. Both the blue and the yellow look amazing! Job well done.
I actually just ordered some samoles and was on the fence about ordering a 3M gloss yellow sample, too... just trying to pick the color. Both the blue and the yellow look amazing! Job well done.
These are what I'm sampling:
The wrap places have sample cards might be easier than ordering, also A lot of people advise not to go matte go satin or gloss.
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Yeh I actually have a few friends with good wrap shops that let me borrow their sample cards, but I want to get bigger samples (1ft x 5ft) so I can wrap a whole fender and truly get a feel for it. I'm going to be wrapping the whole thing myself so just taking my time to make sure it's right before I drop 600 on vinyl 😊
I wasn't a fan of Grabber Blue (Mustang color) which is similar to Miami Blue and a few other colors available from Porsche, but I stumbled onto this Panamera and damnit it, it actually looks really good!
Overall I mean like the stance, and the deep dish wheels. However I actually really dislike the trend where you stretch the tire so much with the intention of having your fender tucking between the tire and the lip of the wheel. That has to be one of the dumbest trends I've ever seen.
Welp. I spent 5hrs wrapping the roof on my GTS. Being a complete novice having only wrapped a Mazda3 roof (so much smaller) one other time, it probably would've been a really good idea to ask a friend for help, but I wanted to try and do it myself so it took FOREVER! There was no chance I was taking out the headliner to remove the antenna, I even considered buying a black one on eBay but, again not tackling the headliner.
So that meant wrapping the roof by myself and trying to do so around the antenna and tucking the film, so long as I didn't fu#$ up trimming it. Which surprisingly wasn't as tough as I though.
However the one thing that absolutely kicked my ***, was the damn windshield rubber gasket as it's only 1/16th of an inch and practically impossible to get a card/squeegee between it and the roof, to tuck the vinyl. That alone took me 2+ hours.
Everything else was pretty straight forward after watching numerous well detailed technique videos on YouTube, I was even able to wrap the full edge on the sunroof to prevent the glass from catching the film. Now I still need to wrap the actual antenna but I'll do that tomorrow, and I do plan on wrapping the roof trim to make the roof appear wider.
With that said I present to you my back breaking work...
Dude that looks great! Nice work. How did you do inside the sunroof area?
Thank man I appreciate it.
I opened the sunroof all the way, then had to use something to hold down the spring loaded wind deflector at the front of the opening. Once that was done I focused on doing exactly what the pros do by "glassing" the film before ever even using a squeegee. Put on a wrap glove (seems to be a woven cotton glove nothing too special) and used a heat gun to slowly heat the entire area over the opening and ran my thumb along the edge applying firm pressure. I made the appropriate relief cuts in the center and corners, ensured the film was secure against the edge and made my final cut leaving about a quarter inch that could be fully tucked up and under.
The Avery Dennison vinyl is relatively easy to work with and quite forgiving since it's thin, easy to stretch and manage. However the easy nature is a double edged sword if you're a newb like myself; it's so thin it moves so easily it'll get stuck to itself. I wish I took a picture around the time I started, it was literally a bunched up wod sitting on the roof of my car and I thought to myself wtf have I done!
Results are good, by no means pro level but I'm happy with it. If I need to do it again I'm absolutely asking for help as that will surely decrease the amount of time it takes and cut down on the little mistakes I made here and there.
