Vinyl Wrap

Aye not in the same league lol.

Did you know there is a dick on the back of it or a doggy bone ?

Not a bad go though ... seen a hell of a lot worst!

Impressive.

C*ck

My missus did the course on it a couple of years ago. Only downside is that the image gets distorted in areas where the vinyl stretches when you're wrapping it.

That looks like a bloody mint material. Just doing the tailgate decal on my Golf was a complete mare. It had been crumpled to f*ck though, which didn't help.

For a bog standard job, no. It's not cheap to have it done.

At my missus's place, a mid sized car would be roughly =A31000 but YOU=20 would have to have the locks/lights and glass removed and replaced at=20 cost to you, something which would add a good few hundred quid to the=20 job.

It only becomes financially viable if you're wanting "custom paint"=20 type stuff.

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Looks perfect up close, I wonder if they took the stretching etc. into account when they designed/printed it, maybe?

Possibly. Depends on how much it needs to be stretched.

Go on then, how much does a full-car wrap cost?

I already posted that. =A31000 but you have to get the lights, locks and=20 glass removed/replaced.

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Must have missed that one.

The video on the link posted earlier showed them cutting round lights etc. - what's the difference?

I'm assuming the wrap is heatshrink and has some sort of heat activated goop on the back to make it stick to the car?

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One looks like s*it and the other looks like a proper paint job. It's=20 pretty much the same as when you paint a car - the one done with lights=20 and glass in is obvious it's been done that way.

No. It's adhesive. Heat is only used depending on the type of vinyl=20 used. Cast vinyl doesn't have a "memory" i.e it remembers it's previous=20 shape and the heat is used to keep it in the form of the vehicle that=20 its being applied to. Needs to be heated to ~ 90 degrees. =20

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Ok...

so how is the cast vinyl version printed then? I can see how a sheet version could be inkjetted - presumably a cast version has to be printed flat (and probably in several pieces) with some sort of major warp applied to cancel out the warp imposed by the casting process?

No lights on a stock car ;) They cut round the exhausts etc, I reckon on a race car you can take the odd short cut here and there

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They both come the same on a roll, it's just that the cast will try to=20 return to a flat shape unless the heat is applied.

I think the idea is to do a design so there's not anything in such a=20 position that it'll be in a place that stretches.

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