Anybody used some of this stuff?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/3M-Di-NOC-d...sQ5fAccessories

it's actually really nice

Wrapped a couple things today:




Plenty of applications for this, inside and out. Looks pretty convincing as a satin finish carbon, for a fraction of the price and easy to use


Lets see what you can do with it

Quite good stuff isn't it

My fingers hurt from doing the rings though

Hmm...CF license bezel on the cheap. Soooooo appealing. Might have to order this stuff.

I could do some interior parts as well. Outside mirrors?

ha ha i saw this and had to have it lol, i ordered 2

cool, get some pics up when you've wrapped stuff I'm looking around my house all the time for things that should be carbonized

im tempted to get some and do my dash and that

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ha ha that would look sick

Hey Luke...

Would never have considered this, but having seen the pics, I think this would work a treat if used discreetly on part of the dash/centre console of my 944, as they are both black with the rest of the interior cream leather

That roof looks sick.

Very tempting to get some of this, and do the radio trim and such. I was going to fab some aluminum pieces. This just looks more cost effective, and not to mention good looking.

That looks sweet lemonade, and not poser at all. I would wrap all my dash parts in it.

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It looks good, go for it

and even if you don't like it, it comes off clean

This was the cheapest UK place when i got mine:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT

looks great,,,
however i was thinking,,, if i wrap my entire car with that stuff....
is it water resistant or how?
how can you remove it?

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It's just vinyl. Like any other vinyl used to wrap cars... It is water resistant, and pulls off pretty cleanly.

Will be expensive to wrap a whole car tho.....

might be interesting tho if you wrapped the whole car

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How do you get it to go around corners like that? do you have to heat it up or does it just stretch by itself if you pull it?

is this stuff easy to mold around curves?





i shouldve refreshed before posting

This post has been edited by sincerelyseb: Feb 19, 2010 - 2:37 PM

yeah how hard is it i was thinking about maybe doing my tweeter covers for starters and then going to armrests n such

You heat it up with a hairdryer.

It's pretty easy to do things with gentle curves, most dash trim would be easy, armrests and such should be no problem.

The Audi rings were very difficult!!!!

This stuff is tits

yeah it sure looks difficult, it came out good and the patter doesn't look all distorted which is good

I have a roll of black cf-look vinyl, I haven't been able to decide what to do with it. Like, a bolt of it that you get from a fabric store. In fact, I bet it's the exact same stuff shown here, but without the adhesive back. This makes me think that I need some high grade spray adhesive for it, and I need to start going to town.

so lets say that im going to do my armrest, i just put it on there and cut it to make it look good, or do i need like a type of glue or something to hold it down on the bottom?

it's self adhesive.


Just buy it and have a go

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expenssive....
around how much do you think?

Over here it's about £1200 ($1800) to have a car wrapped, dunno how much over there.... probably less. google it?

Dan will know....

well just ordered some to do my shifter surounds and what not just hope i got enough will get pics up when i get it done

that stuff isnt that hard to work with at all i can get it in a 15 in. x 10 yard roll but runs around 90.00

Retail price of a square metre Carbon-look car wrapping vinyl is around 100USD over here.. Not cheap to wrap your whole car!

I have thought of car wraps before. average life expectancy is 5+ years and costs about 2000 usd.

There are some fully wrapped cars out there and they look very very good.



Challenge is not so much with how much it costs but how much of the car should you wrap. There are replacements for the hood/trunk from companies like VIS Racing that weigh just a couple of pounds each but they also cost a hefty sum. Wrapping the car in full will cost twice what hood/trunk costs but it would also wrap entire car.

From my previous research you can buy steel looking CF wrap, blue looking CF wrap, Red, Yellow and pretty much any other color for that matter. Its just that some of them look rather crappy and some look awesometastic.

Considering that it usually takes a few hours to put this thing on.. car can be dropped off and picked up in same or next day. They usually shrink wrap those suckers. If you pick the right wrap... some are very durable.

Many fleet vehicles and buses have full wraps on them.

In some ways this costs cheaper then re-painting but it all boils down to what other members will think about it when you present it here on forums. Some may hate it, some may love it. I am right on the border because it is cheap and I do have a shop here that can do it but I am also with evo/gt4/celica debate so im just postponing it for time being.