3M Di-noc Carbon effect Vinyl............ Options

[EKAn]

yeah it sure looks difficult, it came out good and the patter doesn't look all distorted which is good

[GriffGirl]

I have a roll of black cf-look vinyl, I haven't been able to decide what to do with it. Like, a bolt of it that you get from a fabric store. In fact, I bet it's the exact same stuff shown here, but without the adhesive back. This makes me think that I need some high grade spray adhesive for it, and I need to start going to town.

[zfjohnson07]

so lets say that im going to do my armrest, i just put it on there and cut it to make it look good, or do i need like a type of glue or something to hold it down on the bottom?

[manphibian]

it's self adhesive.


Just buy it and have a go

[joehernandez]

looks great,,,
however i was thinking,,, if i wrap my entire car with that stuff....
is it water resistant or how?
how can you remove it?

It's just vinyl. Like any other vinyl used to wrap cars... It is water resistant, and pulls off pretty cleanly.

Will be expensive to wrap a whole car tho.....

expenssive....
around how much do you think?

[manphibian]

Over here it's about £1200 ($1800) to have a car wrapped, dunno how much over there.... probably less. google it?

Dan will know....

[Aussie_Celica]

well just ordered some to do my shifter surounds and what not just hope i got enough will get pics up when i get it done

[Decalsondemand]

that stuff isnt that hard to work with at all i can get it in a 15 in. x 10 yard roll but runs around 90.00

[RoyO]

Retail price of a square metre Carbon-look car wrapping vinyl is around 100USD over here.. Not cheap to wrap your whole car!

[yarik83]

I have thought of car wraps before. average life expectancy is 5+ years and costs about 2000 usd.

There are some fully wrapped cars out there and they look very very good.



Challenge is not so much with how much it costs but how much of the car should you wrap. There are replacements for the hood/trunk from companies like VIS Racing that weigh just a couple of pounds each but they also cost a hefty sum. Wrapping the car in full will cost twice what hood/trunk costs but it would also wrap entire car.

From my previous research you can buy steel looking CF wrap, blue looking CF wrap, Red, Yellow and pretty much any other color for that matter. Its just that some of them look rather crappy and some look awesometastic.

Considering that it usually takes a few hours to put this thing on.. car can be dropped off and picked up in same or next day. They usually shrink wrap those suckers. If you pick the right wrap... some are very durable.

Many fleet vehicles and buses have full wraps on them.

In some ways this costs cheaper then re-painting but it all boils down to what other members will think about it when you present it here on forums. Some may hate it, some may love it. I am right on the border because it is cheap and I do have a shop here that can do it but I am also with evo/gt4/celica debate so im just postponing it for time being.

[wolfie308]

Does need a bit of practice, but here's my first piece.......





I see this stuff as much for internal trim parts as external panels or whole cars. A point that I don't think has been mentioned is this embossed pattern may not be abrasion resistant enough for body panels - could be more prone to scuffing than paint?

Try running your nail with some pressure across a scrap piece and you'll see what I mean.

[manphibian]

Looking good mate No stopping you now

[96stgreendemon]

i got mine today but i wrapped a light switch ha ah, wanted to see how it worked before it went onto the car

[cjh4l22]

i'm thinking about buying this to do some less obvious interior parts. specifically... ceiling, visors and rear view
and before someone points out the obvious. yes of course i'll be stripping the visors and ceiling first.

[96stgreendemon]

i just did my shift trim tonight!!! it looks amazing

[Spider77]

This stuff looks really a lot like that fabric I had on an older post. But with an adhesive backing.
Really want to see the shift trim (was thinking about doing mine), for some reason i really like the dry carbon look (carbon leather...etc..) and I'd also be interested to see how doing the visors and headliner turn out.

[wolfie308]

As further inspiration, here's the centre and left side of my dash done......More pics of what you've done required

[manphibian]

Wow! That looks great Must have take a while to cut all that out?!?!

looks OEM

[Driveby]

Richard that looks really good, wonder what my roof skin would look like.......

[EKAn]

i just did my shift trim tonight!!! it looks amazing

got any pics?