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October 17, 2008

Car Wrap?

GTI Guy

I don’t know about you, but I always find myself wanting to change the look and feel of my car. I was considering getting my car painted, but then I stumbled across full vehicle wraps. It’s a great alternative to painting, and it even protects the paint underneath. Might be a sweet option for the whole lease—trick out—drive—un-trick out—return to dealer type of tuner.

You can pick from a ton of colors, including this slick carbon finish going on a new GTR and R8. The cost is about $2,000 for an entire car, and that’s arguably less then a quality paint job. It’s definitely cheaper then getting your whole car in carbon fiber. Apparently this can even be done in a day. What do you think? More pics after the jump.

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Posted at 4:49 pm in wrap

Comments

eRak007
Mar 5, 2010 at 8:46 am

Thats not printed. Its actual weave laid on top of cast vinyl. Printed CF looks like crap. This stuff is amazing; textured with depth. Oracal, Hexis and 3M all make their own style, in a array of colors. You won’t get this done for 2K though. Looking at 3500 for a full wrap on a car.

L0stmydamnmind
Sep 21, 2009 at 8:24 pm

hey if anyone has any questions on this subject just hit me up on the email l0stmykeys@hotmail.com i work at a sign shop and we print on this stuff all the time its called orcal 3551 ra rapid air the reason its different from regular printed vinyl decals is the glue backing its sprayed in a web to allow ALL air bubbles to release its like nothing ive ever used before heat shrinks its and expands it to make the curves really neat stuff its got an advertised life of 5 years plus 3+ if its has a laminate over it which makes it twice as thick cost installed at our shop is about 50 cents no laminate or a buck a sq foot laminated printed or not only difference is design time but for those of you trying to solid color their ride i believe with an extra set of hands anyone could do it weve me wrappin cars for about 6 months now and havent messed up a single printed panel you can jus pull it up and re adjust it with no issues but it has the be the 3551 RA the RA is important if you order it yourself!!!!

SpeedCanHurt
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:37 am

Looks pretty cool, but how durable would it be? I mean, at least with a normal paintjob when the fat idiot in the giant four-wheel-drive parked next to you hits your car with his door, it doesn’t do too much damage, but how would this stuff stand up over time?

Russ
Oct 20, 2008 at 12:53 am

In the pics it looks pretty cool, I sure would like to see it close up……pics don’t always show all.

Anonymous
Oct 19, 2008 at 5:45 am

This is so sweet ! I will definitely be researching this in the near future. Awesome post Cardomain!

rodney
Oct 19, 2008 at 5:03 am

not bad

ALB3RT
Oct 18, 2008 at 7:52 pm

Come on you can get a really nice paint job with that money!

Ritch...
Oct 18, 2008 at 1:48 am

Does it cover rusted fenders or do they make tape on bondo to lay down first?

John Gelnett
Oct 17, 2008 at 11:19 pm

It does look pretty good but how would you fix rock chips, scratches, etc, and still have it look good.

Chris
Oct 17, 2008 at 10:45 pm

I really really really dig that.

Justin
Oct 17, 2008 at 9:35 pm

I would like to look into this for my car but thier site is confusing and goes back to German after you hit a link to another page. You guys got any info that I could actually use on this product/process?

luis
Oct 17, 2008 at 8:18 pm

cool

kap0w
Oct 17, 2008 at 7:29 pm

I’m pretty sure Team Hummer lost their wrap mid-Bullrun to keep under the radar – call it a bonus side effect!

fixdaserver
Oct 17, 2008 at 7:03 pm

Dhillaz, they did this and used it for a getaway in the movie Taxi. Gisele Bündchen turned her BMW745 from Red to Blue or was it Blue to Red? Who cares, I was looking at Gisele anyway.

Chris
Oct 17, 2008 at 7:02 pm

wasnt that on the movie taxi?
what dhillaz said

Anonymous
Oct 17, 2008 at 5:57 pm

That’s bad ass

Dhillaz
Oct 17, 2008 at 5:16 pm

It would be great for a get-away car: just peel off the colour and swap the plates to change its identity.

Anonymous
Oct 17, 2008 at 5:06 pm

balls

Team JEEP
Oct 17, 2008 at 4:57 pm

I believe this is the next thing in tuning. Esp. in car rallies!

GTwildfire
Oct 17, 2008 at 4:52 pm

tempting