That's a wrap!

Brennan Raposo said:
Just picked my car up from the detailer! Had full front PPF applied including headlights. Also had black wrap applied to the pillars, roof and mirrors. Looks slick!
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Looks great! But how much of that is just the spring wash job? (I had a smiley face here!)

How's the execution? I'm always concerned about adhesion and quality of application around curves and edges. Do they handle those tricky bits well?
 
Wildeyed said:
Looks great! But how much of that is just the spring wash job? (I had a smiley face here!)

How's the execution? I'm always concerned about adhesion and quality of application around curves and edges. Do they handle those tricky bits well?
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So far I haven’t been able to find anything that’s too worrisome. There are a few bubbles here and there but he said the full curing time is 2 week, and they would disappear as the temperature warms up. It looks really clean! When it’s not raining and overcast out I’ll take a few more detailed photos.

Also, there’s a one year guarantee against peeling. He said if it starts to peel up on any edge or corner - they’ll replace it at no charge.
 
FB_IMG_1555822651817.webp What do you all think of doing the white wrap with high gloss or pearly white? Here is the photo of ordinary white roof from internet. I have been looking at wraps for ages and I think a white roof with the ceramic blue does appeal to me the most. But I would like a little bling in the white. Any thoughts? Thanks.
 
CJC said:
View attachment 4505 What do you all think of doing the white wrap with high gloss or pearly white? Here is the photo of ordinary white roof from internet. I have been looking at wraps for ages and I think a white roof with the ceramic blue does appeal to me the most. But I would like a little bling in the white. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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I'd be doing white. Love it. It was my preferred Preferred (if you get my drift). I was very disappointed when I found out the Ultimate came without it. What about a creamy 50s beige?
 
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Brennan Raposo said:
So far I haven’t been able to find anything that’s too worrisome. There are a few bubbles here and there but he said the full curing time is 2 week, and they would disappear as the temperature warms up. It looks really clean! When it’s not raining and overcast out I’ll take a few more detailed photos.

Also, there’s a one year guarantee against peeling. He said if it starts to peel up on any edge or corner - they’ll replace it at no charge.
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Well it looks great! Best of luck with it.
Oilberta said:
Never had a car (our Ultimate) with such heavy tint in the rear window (hatch in this case), and it's taking a little time to get used to the rear view mirror.
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I personally hate tint. It's getting increasingly difficult to find a car without it. I want to SEE outside and not sit in constant gloom.
 
Wildeyed said:
I'd be doing white. Love it. It was my preferred Preferred (if you get my drift). I was very disappointed when I found out the Ultimate came without it. What about a creamy 50s beige?
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That is an idea well worth looking at when I go to the wrap place. I think the cars with the creamy beige from the 50's looked great, and it would lend a different look than the plain white. I was worried at first about doing the white roof and mirror thinking that I would see too many of them since they would be coming in with the slightly less expensive Preferred model. However, I believe non of the preferred models that people in BC have received are two tone--only solid like ours. I'm going to look for the creamy beige two tone cars on the internet. Thanks!
 
Domenick said:
Our member @MTN Ranger made a video about wrapping his Model 3 wheels. I'll leave it here, and maybe (hopefully) he'll drop by and give an update.

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I found it much easier to plasti-dip wheels. I have had them coated for nine months now and they have very little wear to speak of.

I also had a full front ppf wrap for my car, well worth it since there is so much painted surface area on the front.
 
CJC said:
View attachment 4505 What do you all think of doing the white wrap with high gloss or pearly white? Here is the photo of ordinary white roof from internet. I have been looking at wraps for ages and I think a white roof with the ceramic blue does appeal to me the most. But I would like a little bling in the white. Any thoughts? Thanks.
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I really love that, was thinking of doing the same thing and changing the blue to something deeper. I haven't quite gotten myself to love the Ceramic blue yet. Blue is my favorite color but I like either royal blue or a dark classy blue. I think Nissan and/or Mazda has a blue out on one of their SUVs that I really love. I'm very particular about my blue. But either way I think I'll probably seriously consider white for the roof, I really like that contrast.
 
Mattsburgh said:
I really love that, was thinking of doing the same thing and changing the blue to something deeper. I haven't quite gotten myself to love the Ceramic blue yet. Blue is my favorite color but I like either royal blue or a dark classy blue. I think Nissan and/or Mazda has a blue out on one of their SUVs that I really love. I'm very particular about my blue. But either way I think I'll probably seriously consider white for the roof, I really like that contrast.
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Wildeyed suggested a creamy beige to go with the ceramic blue. Today we saw a 50's Chevy with a similar blue to the ceramic blue with a slight creamy beige roof and pillars. It looked great. I am planning on wrapping this month.
 
CJC said:
Wildeyed suggested a creamy beige to go with the ceramic blue. Today we saw a 50's Chevy with a similar blue to the ceramic blue with a slight creamy beige roof and pillars. It looked great. I am planning on wrapping this month.
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I love the white, and I'll definitely be interested in seeing photos once you get it done, whatever you go with. I'm just starting my search for places that will wrap a car around here.
 
 
Mattsburgh said:
I really love that, was thinking of doing the same thing and changing the blue to something deeper. I haven't quite gotten myself to love the Ceramic blue yet. Blue is my favorite color but I like either royal blue or a dark classy blue. I think Nissan and/or Mazda has a blue out on one of their SUVs that I really love. I'm very particular about my blue. But either way I think I'll probably seriously consider white for the roof, I really like that contrast.
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It's funny, I find I'm a bit indifferent to this blue as well but I have never had more compliments about a car colour in my life! Literally everybody I show the car to specifically comments about how much they love it.
 
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I'm not normally a fan of "black out" schemes (I've spent to much time around pickup truck drivers who think black is where it's at) but I really do like the very artful treatment on the front end chrome piece.
 
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