Charley B

The good companies are now guaranteeing their wraps for seven years. Beats the hell out of a guarantee on a comparably priced paint job.

pcar928fan

If you are going with the same color then repainting is the best plan and you can repaint less than the whole car. If you are going with a color change there is NO WAY you can touch the cost/value of a wrap. First off VERY FEW places will even touch a color change. Normally it is either the fly by night guy who just wants to rip you off or the REALLY HIGH end places that will charge an arm and a leg (like $15,000 at the VERY LOW end for a color change...remember EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING must come off the car to do a REAL color change). If you do a wrap, of course you won't get all the area where the hinges for door and hatch are, but you can get damn near everything else.

If we could find the color I would already have my '95 wrapped... At the rate that is going however, I may have another one wrapped before the '95 color is located.

I say start with a NICE black car and then do a color change wrap from a quality installer and with quality material and you will be good to go for 7+ years! Paint underneath will stay protected the whole time too! I have seen a 997TT wrapped in bright blue (about as close to Porsche Maritime Blue as you can get) with some CF accents and it was staggering! If you start with a black car you end up with a nice color change and only hinge areas and wheelwells and engine bay being black and no one will even notice! In fact older Ferrari's were painted whatever color the customer wanted and then they went BACK and painted wheelwells and engine bays black! Go figure! It is one of the ways you can tell what the original color was on an old F-car! Scratch some of the black paint off in the wheelwell and BAM you will see the original color!

Nicole

Could you repaint and then wrap in clear?

77tony

Helped Dinsdale wrap his 82 S.C. 6spd. Darker carbon fiber trim in bottom pic is neat. T

fbarnhill

Tony,

Man you guys did one hell of a job on that car. It looks great!

Charley B

You could, but it would affectively be paying for two paint jobs. Why not just wrap it in the color you would paint it?

77tony

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pcar928fan

Exactly... That is my personal plan on two cars... If I can find a match to my G. Red paint on EURO85 I'll wrap the hood and front bumper cover (and maybe even the rear one as well!)

Brett Jenkins

I looked into this a while back:


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danglerb

Whats the level of surface prep needed if you are starting with bad paint?

My 85 Euro has had at least the front fenders resprayed (black over black) and the right fender has some areas peeling.

My 83 US has pretty good paint, but does have a few chips and pits from pencil point to pencil eraser size.

brealytrent

That's what I'm wondering as well. My car has some fairly deep scratches in the paint I don't know if I could buff out, and would these scratches show up through the wrap and/or cause it to possibly bubble or peel prematurely?

MN

Hmm, could be also quite useful for redoing the interior, especially leather parts (PITCH BLACK ALLIGATOR HX30AL890B)!

Anyone yet?

MN

IcemanG17

wraps have come a long way.....lots of racers use them since they are easily replaceble by "sections"

BC

How the heck do you keep them clean, or rather clean them?