Looking good! well done mate
As above, I'm guessing you did the wrap yourself? Any prior experience and what sort of procedure is involved?
I'm almost tempted to have a go (with some help from my paint/body work finishing guy) as most of the quotes I'm getting to wrap my car are almost as much as a respray!!
Also where did you get your suede from for the dash?
Thanks mate.
Me and my brother both done the wrap. My brother has a lot of experience with vinyl wrap and tinting film as he does them both as homers. So really without him my car would probably still be black.
The procedure its self consisted of a 5 day project doing a single panel at a time.
What you need to do is first decide on what panel you want to start on (would recommend leaving the bumpers till last and small trim and boot lid to near the end) Then cut out a piece of vinyl leaving a couple of inches bigger than the panel to play with as the vinyl might shrink once you use heat. You will need to make sure that the panel you are working on is immaculate and completely degreased or the vinyl will start to react and bubble. Once you have this done you will definitely need another pair of hands as your going to need someone to hold the vinyl straight as you un peel the backing off.
With the backing off you will need to hold the vinyl just in front of the panel (best to get the person helping to do this as your going to be busy) but not touching the panel. Start applying a low heat on the centre of the vinyl and slowly get the centre of the vinyl to touch the centre of the panel. Once touching work out wards creating a smooth straight line across the centre of the vinyl (this is your starting line) once you are happy with how this looks use the squeedgie and start working your way upwards to cover the top of the panels make sure your heat gun is is in front of the vinyl and pointing to wards the direction you are applying. In some cases you will have to get the person holding the vinyl to pull slightly just so you can get it round or over curves. Once you have covered from the centre up your helper can now let go of the vinyl as it all should be completely stuck down. to make sure just keep applying a low heat with the heat gun all over the just applied area. Now you have another free set of hands again. when you are working downwards its basically the same procedure but have the person helping holding the heat gun because if there are any curves or bumps on the way down you will have t pull the film down gently and round them.
Once you are happy and the panel is covered simply cut round the edge of the panel to get rid of the excess. Then use the side of your squeedgy and flaten the vinyl round the edge of the panel so its wrapped round and you dont see it between the panel gaps.
Now for the the rear quarter panel that as you know goes from the roof round the door to the back of the car then all the way round and to the start of the car under the door. what i would recommend doing is getting a large piece of vinyl and covering the whole side of the car but not the front quarter panel. (this was a 3 person job for me) once covered and done as above you will be able to just cut round the panels and tuck the vinyl in the gaps. You can either do it this way or the trickier way where when your holding the large piece of vinyl against the side of the car you cut out a piece that will cover the rear quarter and not the door. but this way means their is a lot of stretching round corners. but on the plus side before you peel the backing paper off you have just cut the piece exactly the correct size for the door.
Now to stretch round corners. When coming to an awkward corner in the body work such as the panel i have just mentioned. you will have to apply heat on the side of the vinyl that your bending in wards. whilst pulling the very end edge of the vinyl off the car and on till you get it to the desired place. this can be really difficult also dont let the vinyl shrink and dont let the vinyl miss shape or you will get a massive crease in the bend.
To get rid of creases simple pull the creased bit apart and apply heat this should then make the dissapear but the vinyl has shrunk slightly so that you do need to watch out for.
When applying heat always move the heat gun in a circular motion or the vinyl wont be able to cope and can end up creating holes. Also if you heat up and stretch to far the vinyl will lose its colour.
For doing fiddly bits like bumpers. you can get away with doing it in seperate pieces
The bumper mouldings as shown come in free pieces but if its a sport model you dont need to worry about this. The plastic strip in between the front of the bumper can also be done separately.
If their is a hole or that that you have wrapped over then once completely stuck down and moulded to the body then pierce a hole in the centre of the hole and make 4 lines equally towards near enough the outer edge and just fold under the body work.
If you do end up getting bubbles in the wrap on panels take a sharp blade and pierce a small hole in the end of the bubble then flatten out.
Some vinyl is better to be used with water sprayed on the back of it which makes it much easier to work with and easier to move around when needed instead if it sticking constantly.
Now things needed for the wrap
The wrap ( make sure you have measured the car accurately before hand ) would recommend giving your self an extra metre or two.
Plenty of sharp cutting scalpel blades
Plenty of squeegees
Degreaser
Plenty of microfibre clothes
Panel wipe
Heat gun
Magnets to hold the vinyl to the bodywork in paces can be handy aswell
You can get everything from
http://www.mdpsupplies.co.uk/index.asp
Really all you need is time and patience. cant really be rushed if you want to make a good job.
I got the dash board fabric off of ebay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peel-Stic...?pt=UK_Crafts_Fabric&var=&hash=item3f29b726b9
Hope all of this was a help to you and for any one else that was interested.
