mscamp02

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Dont like how they left the front emblem silver on the inside but other than that its a pretty insane job...but honestly for 3500 I could find a respectable paint shop to paint my car or do it myself 3 or 4 times lol

2tone

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i think this is awesome, but i agree that - although the white looks very clean - if you're going to do this, make it something cool like matte black or at least a color that mazda doesn't offer!! i guess he really wanted white!

but also, i don't have a huge probably with the cost...but durability is the issue. if it can withstand highway nicks on the front and door dings, then hey it's probably worth it, but otherwise it might be too much trouble to baby it to try to prevent the vinyl from scratching or peeling.

olddragger

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what about the inside of the trunk---under the hood, door jams and all that? Is it a different color?. i Like the vinal roof and maybe the hood/trunk but it will never replace a good paint job.
I too like what they did with the cooler area---that is sweet.
OD

mscamp02

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^never even thought of that. They may have just because the rest of the car is done so well but I would imagine that would be very difficult (not sure you can even do under the hood because of heat issues

imput1234

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I don't get it, why is this news? People have been doing this for a long time.

Gr8Bullet

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wow thats crazy. id just rather get a paint job.

gh8st

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yeah why white? and why gloss white? do something cool.. like matte white, or metallic orange :D

i wrapped the roof on my 8 myself.. it wasn't hard, but i can't imagine wrapping the whole car. there are just way too many curves

kersh4w

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i can tell you im pretty sure they did all the door jams. now, did they do the inside of the fender, that you can see when you open the door? probably not. did they do the inside of the engine bay? again.. probably not. (it would melt, im sure.)

and i cant believe so many of you have not seen this before. getting a vinyl wrap of your car is almost always cheaper. if you have patience you can do it yourself. i vinyl wrapped the front of my car and it took a lot of patience but it looked good and a year later i had 0 paint chips. until the bodyshop decided to try and take it off? i dont know what that was all about.... happened when they installed my bodykit. they should have just left it alone. anyway...

its cheaper than paint. its reversible. it doesnt chip from stones. if one area gets fucked up. no big deal, you can redo that area. its a lot tougher than paint. and maybe in 5 years, its life is over. so guess what? bam! you get to redo your car in a new sexy style. or go back to the original paint.

http://www.themotorreport.com.au/651...lack-or-white/


http://forums.clubrsx.com/showthread.php?t=636475






and you can vinyl wrap the car in any crazy graphics you want. thats the beauty of vinyl. its simply printed. you can get crazy custom graphics that would cost tens of thousands of dollars if painted. and you can get a whole lot more detailed with printed graphics.

Lord ET

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There is also a GTR in Denton that is matte black wrapped.

treitz

My dad and I own a vinyl shop so I have definitely thought of doing this. The matte black looks WAY sick. Never would have thought it would either unless it was a SUV or something like that.

Agree'd, metallic orange would be GNARLY.

I saw a lot of longevity questions that didn't get answered. The vinyl will last 5-10 years depending on the weather, and of course the quality of the installation.

darnellm

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Here is a photo of a Ferrari Cup race car
The shop told me $8-10K for the wrap job

9krpmrx8

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Hmmm, problem would be finding a place to do it properly.

gh8st

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jeeeeeeez 8-10k?? that's ridiculous

Roxie8

one scratch might not be that big of a deal...its a bunch of different pieces. so its as easy as replacing just the piece that scratched.
im interested to see what that car looks like close up. for bubbles/wrinkles/ or bad lines.

my bf works with vinyl all day...hes done a couple of wraps.
he did the mustang rtr graphics and the wrapped the interior of the rtr-c in all carbon fiber. pretty awesome
go to the myspace..
speedesign custom graphics. some pretty neat stuff he has done. mostly for advertisement or race cars.

dillsrotary

+1, this is a big business in the exotic's market too.

RIWWP

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^that's silly, and I find it a bit retarded. I guess he didn't like that, and couldn't think of anything else, so he drove it into a lake.



^ The Ferrari(?) looks cool. (Black with green) I could see that.



And I certainly could see doing it to protect paint.

9krpmrx8

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The flat black 8 looks great.

lepichichi

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it doesn't look bad i bet michael jackson would of like the transformation

bapexnbhd

i'm actually thinking about doing this. (matte black? matte white?) but how about car wash? i wash my car one a week myself. will there be any issues such as peeling etc. ??

Brian Major

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i like what they did with the side vents on the white 8... would be cooler if it was paint... :/

He||hammer

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They are going to rob a bank then peel it off in a back alley

Roxie8

nope. i got vinyl on my car. went through the car wash yesterday for a quickwash to get bird poop off. its fine.

SiLVeRE8

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I always thought people are crazy for ruining their OEM paint by painting it matte black... Now I understand that they are just vinyl. Man this is crazy makes me want to do something like this

AJRx892

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taxi?

hmm the part about reselling with perfect paint sounds great

SiLVeRE8

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^ Yea I remember that part with all those chicks peeling the vinyl off of the bimmer in the movie taxi.

I always thought it was not real....