My first experience of wrapping - Tuition Day!

[Chapppers11]

I spent all of yesterday up in Bromborough at MDP for a vehicle wrapping tuition day, led by a professional vehicle wrapper (whose name escapes me) and the owners of MDP.

We covered all parts of the car, doors, bonnets, bumpers, wing mirrors and the roof. Just a quick demo from the guy, then we had a go at it straight away.

Here's the few photos I managed to grab during the day.


First demonstration of how to do a door, as well as how to take the handles off and wrap inside the handle recess.

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I wrapped a door and wing mirror as well but I didn't manage to get a photo!

Demo of how to lay down the wrap

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During my wrap of the bonnet

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And finished!

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Being shown how to wrap the roof around the aerial with some release-air wrap, which doesn't trap bubbles. My mum could have wrapped a car in the stuff it was that easy to use!

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During the wrapping of a bumper

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And the top half finished!

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And finished!

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They gave us a huge roll of matte black wrap and a full kit to get started, and I pinched a few of the green scraps to have a play with...

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Overall it was a great day out and I'm confident with most panels now, I'll definitely be having a play with the 200.

 

[Scrooge]

Looks good, How much did you pay out of interest? Did you take the bumpers off to do them?

 

[Chapppers11]

The day was £95, incl. the supplies, tuition, tools and lunch.

Bumpers stayed on with the two cars we were doing, the vinyl was easy to tuck between the panel gaps.

 

[Scrooge]

That's a great price, got any plans to wrap anything yourself now?

 

[Toby]

Green iPhone looks cool.

Would love to learn how to wrap a car. Nice one.

 

[Rob]

Very interesting, and that's a damn great price!

 

[JamesBryan]

I did the exact same tuition day last year, really good for the price of it!

 

[Scrooge]

Obviously this would take a lot longer than a day to get to grips and confidence of doing a full car so do they do a more in depth course?

 

[JamesBryan]

Obviously this would take a lot longer than a day to get to grips and confidence of doing a full car so do they do a more in depth course?

No, this one day course is the only one they do.

 

[Scrooge]

That's a shame.

 

[Chapppers11]

I did the exact same tuition day last year, really good for the price of it!

Yea, I was impressed!

Obviously this would take a lot longer than a day to get to grips and confidence of doing a full car so do they do a more in depth course?

In theory, there's no reason why you can't wrap a whole car after the course and a fair amount of practice, because the course taught how to do flat panels like the door and bonnet, and very curved panels like the bumpers and wing mirrors.

It's just a case of practicing what they've taught! There isn't any need for another tuition day imo, they went into everything.

 

[Scrooge]

Fair enough, may look into it then.

 

[kudos]

got a link to this course?

 

[Rubicon_]

Looks a good day! Love the iPhone and MacBook lol

 

[JamesBryan]

got a link to this course?

http://www.mdpsupplies.co.uk/wrappingcoursemarchfull.asp

 

[Chapppers11]

Sign up to get email notification and they will let you know when the April course is available.

 

[danh90]

Looks great I'm going to look into these days as I'm wrapping the clio in the next few month

 

[Chapppers11]

I'd definitely recommend doing the course.

What colour are you going with the Clio?

 

[danh90]

Going for a Matt grey pal

 

[Chapppers11]

Nice!

We used that on the doors and the mirrors yesterday!

 

[danh90]

Did the colour look nice? Fancy something abit different to Matt black ect what people usually go for

 

[kudos]

http://www.mdpsupplies.co.uk/wrappingcoursemarchfull.asp

nice one, signed up for the notification about the next ones

 

[Bluebeard]

Do they not wrap inside the door shuts then??

 

[Chapppers11]

Did the colour look nice? Fancy something abit different to Matt black ect what people usually go for

Yea it looked awesome! Not so great on a Kia lol.

Do they not wrap inside the door shuts then??

Nope, most wrapping companies won't unless you pay extra for it.

It would be a pain in the arse.

 

[Bluebeard]

Nope, most wrapping companies won't unless you pay extra for it.

It would be a pain in the arse.

Why wouldn't someone pay for the doorshuts to be done?? It looks pony in the original colour.

 

[kudos]

Do they not wrap inside the door shuts then??

its only a training course, once you are taught the basics you can then easily do door shuts yourself

 

[kudos]

Why wouldn't someone pay for the doorshuts to be done??

because people don't want to pay for it, people don't pay for the door shuts to be done on a paint job which looks worse than when its a wrap with door shuts not done

 

[Chapppers11]

Apparently it's a right ball ache as well, as you can probably imagine.

One of the guys said he wouldn't even take on a job with door shuts included because it's just so much extra time for little better aesthetics when the doors are shut; which is what 99% of people seeing the car will see.

 

[Dan@SJM]

It's just a case of practicing what they've taught! There isn't any need for another tuition day imo, they went into everything.

Ill give you a Clio to practice on

 

[TIG ACM]

I did this course back in January, very good course.

As said above you will just need a lot more practice to take on a whole car after the course.

 

[danh90]

My clios going to be away in the garage so I'm going to take my time and give it a go only materials I can lose tbh

 

[Chapppers11]

Ill give you a Clio to practice on

If you provide the materials I'll pop down and have a go, unless you want something done in matte black, I've got a fair amount of that!

I did this course back in January, very good course.

As said above you will just need a lot more practice to take on a whole car after the course.

Yea definitely.

My clios going to be away in the garage so I'm going to take my time and give it a go only materials I can lose tbh

Very true, replied to your PM!

 

[Barwy]

Vinyl wrapping, to me, is the best way to change the look of your car. The idea is that it's pretty temporary - only staying on a few years. When you get into full colour digital printed wraps that's when you can really push the boat out and it becomes better than paint.

Door shuts are a must. Any fitter who says they're too much hassle should quit their job. Wrapping with no joins or overlaps is sometimes an obstacle. You get what you pay for, and don't be fooled by it - it isn't as easy as it looks guys!

No wonder I'm biased because I work for a vehicle wrapping firm. I can wrap to a certain extent but I'm really a creative art worker

any questions I'll be happy to answer