Anyone done it with much success?

i've bought a hilux surf with poor paintwork/laquer peeling and just wondering about wrapping it. seems like £200 will buy enough vynil off ebay to do it!

 

dont buy off ebay, not the best, and what ever the paint finish is like underneath, will show through when you put the vinyl on,

so if laquers peeling, the vinyl wont stick properly and look worse than the paint

 

Roller it in army colours. Would look the bollocks.

 

I've done that to a car before, and it really did look the bollocks

 

Yeah thats the other option, but quite fancied white!

 

Do camo, it looks ace. Can usually get the paint on ebay pretty cheap too!

 

You know it makes sense



Excuse the white bits on the bottom, my friend drove it into a bank

 

Looks the Bollocks for a quick fix

 

You think this looks good?

 

i fixed your reply for you.

 

Compared to lacquer peel and faded paint, yeah I reckon so.

Served a purpose on that car though, was done to get noticed and raise money for Help For Heroes

 

I'll let that one slide then lol

Good on you mate!

 

ok,fair do's.....

 

Made it all worth it when we went to a show, drove past a stand with a load of old military vehicles on it and some old bloke was desperately waving his arms around thinking we should be on there with them

 

What was it all about? the painting of the car in DPM. I know H4H but was it for a specific event?

 

Right, this is what i've got:



Options are,

1) wet and dry the laquer down and re laquer it, unsure if it'll look ok over such a large area though.

2) wrap it, dunno on colour, white maybe?

3) nato green like the volvo above

4) matt black, but i think matt black looks shit so i'll give that a miss.

 

Make it look a middle east version. DIY flat bed with an anti aircraft gun mounted on the bed and an RPG hung on an external DIY gun rack.

 

Right answer!

 

pmsl!!

It's seeing them on the news every night what made me buy it!

 

hire the spray gear and spray it yourself. Mate did this, got a decent amount of paint on, he went with a non metalic, then when hardened he flatted it back and polished it.

Ok, up close you could tell it wasnt perfect but looked ok stood a few foot away. He sprayed it outside mid summer. Was him under £200 iirc.

 

What he said. I do this for a job. It's a confidence thing more than anything, and you need to do it a few times to get the hang of it. It's not so much who wraps it, it's more the material, and i swear by 3M, it ain't cheap either. You would need to do the body work underneath for a smooth finish on the vinyl


Amazing!! That looks epic!!!!

 

quick go

 

Have a look at tanks lot of ways to do camo you dont have to go for just green an black ho yer an sum AA guns would be a nice bit of finishing trim !

 

yep this is the way to go and maybe sum 66mm LAW tubes or a whole rack like a starlins organ lol.

 

I'd go for some desert camo then advertise it on www.lybia.gumtree.com

 

Exactly what Mike, i've wrapped probbaly half a dozen cars and it gets easier with practice and also as he says its the vinyl you use! 3M all the way for me, tried other makes etc and couldnt get it how I wanted it......

Also that truck looks like it could be a bitch to do!!

Your better off rubbing it back and getting a painter to do a cheap blowover if its only a smokeabout!

 

If its just dry laqure and a bit off peel it may be worth spending the £200 on getting it properly buffed to save the original pain rather than wrapping over the top of it.
I recently had a L200 done that have faded to pink and was in a real bad state paint wise.