Vinyl wrapping

mustang68

Was thinking about getting the Mustang resprayed as it has some clear coat issues and I need to do some bonnet repairs, that will be hard to match the paint on... but then someone started me thinking about getting the car wrapped.

Looks to be much cheaper, last about 7-10 years and only take a few days, so anyone had any real world experience with getting their car wrapped?

unkel

The guy that wrapped the ugly plastic grill in my Ioniq is really good, he came recommended by the biggest wholesale provider of wrapping materials in Ireland. When I got to him, he just handed over an '07 Audi TT that he had fully wrapped in a matte olive green / brown colour to its owner and it was a stunning job. The guy works full time just wrapping. Cars, vans, you name it.

His name is Mantis, tel. 085 788 4875, Sunbury Industrial Estate, lower Ballymount Road

biko

Are you in county Dublin OP?

If you're in West/Midlands
www.revolutionireland.ie Mullingar
www.georgesigns.com Galway
http://autoproject.ie Galway

Max Headroom

Two words that should NEVER be used on a classic car forum......:mad:

Effects

Max Headroom wrote: »

Two words that should NEVER be used on a classic car forum......:mad:

Why not?

gctest50

Max Headroom wrote: »

Two words that should NEVER be used on a classic car forum......:mad:

Might help hold some of them together

Chris_Heilong

It will actually keep the original paint safe from the sun and I am sure can be found in the original colour also, win win and best of all it is completely reversible.

Rows Grower

mustang68 wrote: »

Was thinking about getting the Mustang resprayed as it has some clear coat issues and I need to do some bonnet repairs, that will be hard to match the paint on... but then someone started me thinking about getting the car wrapped.

Looks to be much cheaper, last about 7-10 years and only take a few days, so anyone had any real world experience with getting their car wrapped?

What kind of prices were you quoted if you don't mind me asking?

I got a quote of 1800-2000 plus vat to wrap a vintage car, thought it was saucy enough.

A proper complete respray is coming in around the same price.

Kenny Logins

Plastidip (or similar) should work well too, and will be cheaper.

unkel

Rows Grower wrote: »

What kind of prices were you quoted if you don't mind me asking?

I got a quote of 1800-2000 plus vat to wrap a vintage car, thought it was saucy enough.

That's saucy. I asked the guy I mentioned up there a few years ago and his range was €1000-€1500 depending on the type and size of a car. Incl. VAT. I would say most cars would be at the higher end of that range.

I was never a fan of full car wrapping until I saw the TT, it looked brilliant, like brand new (it was 10 years old) and it had a unique colour. It changed my mind.

911s

I would be very wary of wrapping an older car
with non original paintwork or touch ups or partial
re sprays. When it comes to vinyl removal time some of the paint may lift off with the vinyl, back to square one, needing a re spray

Max Headroom

Effects wrote: »

Why not?

Its for scangers cars.....:P

Are we talking a retro car or a classic car.....wrapping a classic is just wrong...unless youre a scanger...:D

unkel

Max Headroom wrote: »

Its for scangers cars.....:P

I used to agree with you. In the early days with some of the jobs done DIY in matt black or carbon fibre on a felted TDI by its scanger owner

Different ballgame now though with a professionally wrapped car.

Max Headroom

unkel wrote: »

I used to agree with you. In the early days with some of the jobs done DIY in matt black or carbon fibre on a felted TDI by its scanger owner

Different ballgame now though with a professionally wrapped car.

I've seen plenty of modern cars wrapped and the quality is excellent....but never on a classic, it reeks of "pimp my ride" and the king skanger that IS Ryan Friedlinghaus..ya know Ryan, on a normal person theyre just "shorts"....:)

Dades

Can any wrapping replicate a regular, glossy paintjob?

Or are you constrained to some sort of matte or textured finish?

Car99

Dades wrote: »

Can any wrapping replicate a regular, glossy paintjob?

Or are you constrained to some sort of matte or textured finish?

You can get mirror finish if you like no constraints

Dades

Mirror, as in like a mirror, or a glossy colour finish indistinguishable from an actual paintjob?

Alun

Was recently in Switzerland, around Zurich, and saw plenty of (very!) high end cars that were wrapped, mostly matte black or dark grey. They looked stunning. The owners of those cars were definitely not scangers.

Kenny Logins

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Plastidip (or similar) should work well too, and will be cheaper.

Actually, this is stuff I've used to freshen up black plastic parts on my car. It's great stuff, and it's pretty difficult to make a mess of it. If you spray a good few coats it will peel back without breaking up.

https://www.fulldip.ie/

kev1.3s

Alun wrote: »

Was recently in Switzerland, around Zurich, and saw plenty of (very!) high end cars that were wrapped, mostly matte black or dark grey. They looked stunning. The owners of those cars were definitely not scangers.

Scangers with money?

Max Headroom

Vinyl is soft and will mark easily,gloss vinyl will scratch if you use a cloth on it on a sunny day.. if you get a dent or scratch it cant be repaired easily...as above theyre generally matt finish or mirror (vomits).....or camo if you want to blend in ..

mustang68

Rows Grower wrote: »

What kind of prices were you quoted if you don't mind me asking?

I got a quote of 1800-2000 plus vat to wrap a vintage car, thought it was saucy enough.

A proper complete respray is coming in around the same price.

I was getting quotes of around 1400, where can you get a full prep and respray for around that cost? Also last time I got it painted it was off the road for about five weeks between prep, painting and reinstalling trim/glass etc.

kev1.3s

2k for a repeat would be the lower end of the spectrum as far as I'm concerned, I'd doubt that they would be removing glass for that price.