Bought an Audi S5 a couple of months ago, wanted a comfy cruiser / 4x4 for the cold winter months, toyed with buying a range rover sport, Q7 but drove one of these and fell in love with the noise! Bought it bog standard from a chap in Herefordshire, fully loaded less sunroof and cruise, main priority was the Bang & Olufson stereo and MMI interfaces which it has! Lovely to drive, bit thirsty being a V8 but great fun. Feels quicker than my old S4 I had and high end speed its phenomenal, very impressed!

Bought a private plate for it the day after I bought it, then Milltek non-res exhaust for it which sounds great and just finished wrapping it in matt metallic grey and de-chroming the door surrounds, very pleased with the finish and it only took 2 days to complete (bar the door shuts which i'll do this weekend!). All that is left to do is put a slight tint on the windows. Needs a couple of front tyres in the next few k's so not sure whether to replace the wheels with something different (deep dish bbs reps maybe....)

Few pics pre and post wrap



Milltek arrived!






Tailgate done...


Side on...






hmmmm!




Bonnet done




Mid-front bumper!


Done!

 

Nice! Mine's going that colour next week!

 

very nice.....do you do wraps for PF members???

 

You'll love that exhaust on that car, milltek are expensive, but they sound incredible.

Jordan

 

ginge - no mate i'm not a trader on here so don't do wraps for PF.....

TED Jordan - indeed it wasnt cheap but well worth every penny!! Should be a good selling point come next year...

 

WHAAATTTTTTTTT Why is it not white! I am disappointed!

Looks good though Chris! Top Job Again!

 

Looks stunning Chris


Brian

 

Looks good, how long did it take you?

 

Thanks Brian! I might need your expertise soon in detailing the roof (met.black!).

Miss T - took 2 days, around 14hrs (still got door shuts which will be an hour a side I imagine)

Chris

 

I think it looked better in paint, but the wrap looks very well done.

 

Looks very smart

 

Not a lover of rapped cars sorry.Looked stunning before you rapped it.

 

the wrap makes it look a better car, still subtle but not bland

 

is this your job cos that looks good? how much does the vinyl cost?

 

Very nice car but i really dont get wrapping, i mean you buy a black car and then wrap it in grey, why not just buy a grey car then? just my opinion, dont take offence

But the job you've done looks spot on, like a pro

 

Is it really hard to do?

 

Looks a good finish Chris, nice job

I do it for a job, harder than it looks to get the edges nice

I see you post on uk signboards aswell.

 

Love the colour.

Saw a wrapped TT in Germany, a foul BROWN colour...WHY?

 

Looks good

 

So what do you do to clean a wrapped car ? what stuff do you use etc ?

 

I really like this and the job looks first class, I struggle to wrap cling film around my sandwiches!

 

Glenn - I liked it in black as well but a bitch to keep clean! Bought this particular one for the spec not the colour (knowing I will wrap it!)!

underdog - no mate its not my job, just enjoy doing them, takes my brain away from my day to day work! Vinyl cost depends where, how much you buy from said supplier, brand, colour etc...

BM08 - no offence taken bud, couldnt find a matt grey one out there (they dont make em and kind of had this colour in my head before buying!)

Mark - its only practice mate, i'm shit at wrapping christmas pressies but give me a car i'm ok!!

Imnoteasy - cheers mate , as you say sometimes tricky getting edges right but once you get the technique it becomes second nature - window tinting for me next!! I am indeed on signboards but find 80% of the people on there a bunch of dickheads tbh, not willing to help if you aren't full time, finding your feet etc (little do they know i've probably been going for longer than them lol!!!)

GVK - that matt brown 'can' work on some motors, not a fan either tbh but fair play to people wanting to be different!

CSM - wash, I clayed some of the car around the bottom of the wings where there was a bit of tar etc stuck on, then Isopropyl IPA before wrapping.

Chris

 

I think csm means what do you use to clean the car after it's wrapped?

The detailing queers would save a lot of money on over-priced,ridiculously named products with a wrapped car!

 

Very nice mate

 

You've done a great job there! I love wrapping stuff, find it really therapeutic and there is an immense satisfaction in getting a job well done. Never attempted big panels though, just smaller intricate bits of trim and grilles etc.

 

 

Nice work!

 

That looks really good.

 

Yeah sorry bud i meant once its wrapped as GVK says lol

 

Car looks awesome in the grey and I love S5s anyway, nice car for the winter!

I know the short answer is "it depends", but what sort of price can you wrap a normal size car for? Is it getting on for respray money, or a few hundred quid?

 

nice!!!!!
hmmm... time to get some wrap and have a go i think on the bm, couple of hundred to do a car, it's the time that i don't have!

 

How and what did you do to change the chrome around the doors?

Car looks great by the way!

 

Not really a fan of wrapped cars but that does look quite nice bud!!

Would love to hear that sound with the miltek fitted...'hint'

 

GVK / CSM - sorry read it wrong!! I just clean it as per a normal car!! As its got a metallic layer on top of the matt it doesn't scratch like matt black / white etc.... It shows greasy marks from dirty oiks that like touching it but normal panel wipe cleans it off!!

doctor Stavros - definitely therapeutic I find I can wrap stuff quicker with a hangover as well!!

alistairolsen - depends on the car, i'd rather wrap a range rover that say a E46 BMW, I don't do this for a living so cannot comment on prices but its cheaper than a respray I imagine.

mk22door - I wrapped them gloss black before hand as well as the lower rear valance! Going to attempt to plastidip the front grill

Jamie - the exhaust sounds wicked!!!! I'll try and get a vid over the weekend!! (i'll get the missus to drive it down the road!)

Chris

 

Cheers

I presume you did the rear corners (bendy round bits) of the chrome trim in seperate pieces or can your get it to pull round? Or cut perfect from a large piece?

I'm wanting to delete the chrome on my Sierra Ghia but without removing it.

 

Looks brilliant wrapped but it's crying out for a new set of wheels to compliment the wrap.

 

im into that,looks brilliant in that colour with that exhaust aswell

 

Very nice

 

I did them all in one piece mate, wastes quite a lot of vinyl but a lot nicer finish. They are riveted on and didnt fancy drilling them out so wrapped them on the car. The Sierras might be able to be removed....

 

Looks Smart!