Car wrapping
Racer
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I'm possibly on the fence about wrapping my 993 (when I do the RSR conversion); depending on who does the wrap and their skill level (they can do jambs as well). For the gutters uptop I would think they'd wrap around and probably put a splice line on the bottom of the fold and do a overlap?
Burning Brakes
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From: MTL, Qc Canada
I just wrapped my Lincoln SUV in "red metallic" from 3M.
It looks great. Since I chose a glossy wrap, it really looks like a paint. Despite all the curves (especially on mirrors) the close-up looks perfect.
From what I heard : matte, satine and white will not last as long.
It should be good for about 4 years. Cost of wrapping 2,200$ CAD from a reputable shop.
It looks great. Since I chose a glossy wrap, it really looks like a paint. Despite all the curves (especially on mirrors) the close-up looks perfect.
From what I heard : matte, satine and white will not last as long.
It should be good for about 4 years. Cost of wrapping 2,200$ CAD from a reputable shop.
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We have tons of wrapped p-cars here in Vancouver - seems to be the thing to do. usually bumpers/side mirrors are painted, the rest wrapped. Seems to last very well, and is effectively a large stone guard!
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Joe Kucinski
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I just had the entire front from the windscreen forward wrapped with Xpel, which seems to be the best I found. It is perfect. Looks great and covers everything. Be sure to look at some of the installers past jobs.
I have total confidence driving that my paint isn't going to get torn up. I am going to have my other cars done in the spring.
Jack
I have total confidence driving that my paint isn't going to get torn up. I am going to have my other cars done in the spring.
Jack
Drifting
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From: Vancouver BC, Canada
If done well, you'll have difficulty telling it's a wrap until you visually inspect it in finer and closer detail. Similar to looking at a car with a clear bra on the front end etc, you'll have to look hard esp if done well.
Here is some reading for the OP:
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-foru...r-wrapped.html
Even at 993Fest, many were amazed at the wrap job on RL 996's C4S. As he stated, at local PCA events some don't even know.
For sure it will def cost you more than $2K per the Lincoln SUV example above, try more in the $6-8K range to be realistic.
Here is some reading for the OP:
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-foru...r-wrapped.html
Even at 993Fest, many were amazed at the wrap job on RL 996's C4S. As he stated, at local PCA events some don't even know.
For sure it will def cost you more than $2K per the Lincoln SUV example above, try more in the $6-8K range to be realistic.
Drifting
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Complex compound curved parts like the mirrors, door handles, and the rear deck spoilers were painted to match with the other parts wrapped on the excellent examples seen up north in Vancouver.
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It's worse than that. Note the images links within each of those posts... (If you click 'quote' on one of those posts you'll see that it contains a link to an image.) That image doesn't appear for most of us because it's one pixel by one pixel in dimension and white.
By clicking on this thread all of us have pulled that image down. As such, whoever hosts that image knows all of our IP addresses (which in most cases are easily resolved to a general physical location,) plus browser and operating system info. They could possibly also have access to cookies.
This means some random unknown 3rd-party is tracking Rennlisters by IP address, unless one happens to have images disabled.
We cannot block the images reliably with something like Firefox/AdblockPlus because the images are hosted on various domains that change...
There have been countless accounts over the last months doing this. Usually the account will have 5 posts or so and a random name, and they'll repost some random text from within the thread. I saw one the other day that simply reposted my sig text.
I have reported countless posts like this. I have not been contacted about it by a mod or admin. The posts are simply deleted and the next day there are new posts.
I've pointed out how easy it would (should) be for IB to have someone at the sysadmin level code a script to find/delete such posts.
I've given up at this point. If everyone who reads this reports my post
to the mods and asks that the issue be resolved maybe IB will do something about it.
By clicking on this thread all of us have pulled that image down. As such, whoever hosts that image knows all of our IP addresses (which in most cases are easily resolved to a general physical location,) plus browser and operating system info. They could possibly also have access to cookies.
This means some random unknown 3rd-party is tracking Rennlisters by IP address, unless one happens to have images disabled.
We cannot block the images reliably with something like Firefox/AdblockPlus because the images are hosted on various domains that change...
There have been countless accounts over the last months doing this. Usually the account will have 5 posts or so and a random name, and they'll repost some random text from within the thread. I saw one the other day that simply reposted my sig text.
I have reported countless posts like this. I have not been contacted about it by a mod or admin. The posts are simply deleted and the next day there are new posts.
I've pointed out how easy it would (should) be for IB to have someone at the sysadmin level code a script to find/delete such posts.
I've given up at this point. If everyone who reads this reports my post
to the mods and asks that the issue be resolved maybe IB will do something about it.
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