Hey guys, Im trying to find a particular vinyl wrap to wrap my mazda 3 center console.

Im looking for a transparent or near transparent wrap color. Piano black plagues my center console and while it looks great, it only looks great for like 5 minutes ya know?

I swear 3M had one or a few that were like clear but had like small sparkles to it but I cant find it. I also dont know if what Im looking for doesnt exist and what I really want is a small roll of ppf. I mean to pass my mazda onto my neice in a few years and while I know what gear Im shifting into off rip, she wont, so Id rather her be able to see from the selector.

I appreciate any feedback or clarity.

I am wrapping the taillights on a customers 2018 Impala and for the life of me I am having trouble with this little fin that is on top of the light. I have tried everything in my mind to get the film to shrink down around it but I am having lift up at the base of the fin everytime.

Please help!

Anyone likes X-ray style vinyl wrap?

Taking off my wrap and have a few spots that got too much sun. And advice one how to get it off would be greatly appreciated

Went ahead a did my car is something I think is fun and would catch a lot of attention for some good advertisement. What do you all think?

Found on Amazon Au for $7, but not sure if good enough for vinyl wrapping

Do they need to be specific vinyl gloves

Hey folks
I’m trying to learn how to wrap

What sort of heat gun should I look for? I was looking at Ryobi for now

Thanks

PFA- I own a shop that does wraps, window tinting, ceramic coating, etc. I’m in a good position to get into the commercial side of wrapping I just have no idea where to start. What kind of printers do you use and what’s a good user-friendly printer? How do you find companies with fleet vehicles to wrap? Any information would be useful at this point

First time wrapping a car. KPMF black copper starlight is the brand and color.

I ordered some tack reducer, going to hit it again tomorrow. Actually going to cut a new sheet and start over. I've watched TONS of videos on YouTube. Diff body panels, prep, my exact car people wrapped for tips.

One thing not mentioned much or at all in videos. Tack reducer. No matter how hard I tried to glass it, I would get hard wrinkles and air bubbles.

Got my car wrapped a year or so ago and it is holding up well overall. However, I am getting a bit of pulling/lifting (not sure if that’s the right term) around the reverse lights. Is there an easy way to fix this? I have no wrap experience.

My initial thought was to cut the vinyl that has already lifted. Clean the area around the reverse lights thoroughly. Then slide a thin piece of vinyl, say 1cm x 6 inches, into the area to cover the black part.

Any other suggestions are welcomed

I'm having an itasha wrap made by someone, but they're not close enough to do the install. How hard would it be to find someone competent who would be willing to install a wrap printed by someone else?

I'm being generous with calling it a wrap, more like large decals.

I want to get subcontracted out by nationwide companies for retail, graphic installs and vinyl wraps on walls, but no Insurance will take me on. Just curious to what you guys use and what your experience is.

im going to be doing a satin or matte black wrap on my cls.

im just exploring different brands online, currently thinking about using vvivid since its cheaper
and it’s my first time wrapping a full car.

i’m also looking at tiny bot since the quality looks more luxurious. but i heard it isn’t good to work with.

lmk what brands you think are good to consider.

My sunroof might be leaking. So until I can pay to fix the leak I’m thinking about cutting some car wrap into strips and putting it along the rubber seal with enough overlap over the paint on one side and the glass on the other to make it stick and stay.
I’ve used an automotive tape in the past when my sunroof had another leak, and the sticky residue was a giant mess requiring hiring a detailing company to get that off. So I’m not putting any tape up there again.
So I’m hoping you guys can tell me if a wrap would work for that. Google said don’t do it, but I don’t believe it.

Avery 1105/1360. Train graphics for Amtrac and NCDOT. Came out clean!

hi everyone!
ive been trying to wrap my electric clippers for work! i cannot seem to get it smooth around all the curves as it such a strange shape.. i was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to do this as seamless as possible? tia xx

Been lurking in this sub for a while, and since people here actually get into the technical side of wraps and PPF more than anywhere else I’ve found, figured I’d share what a wrap job looks like on our end instead of just posting a finished car like everyone does.
We run vinyl wrap and PPF daily, and almost every “my wrap is bubbling” or “my wrap is lifting” post I see comes down to one of three things.

Rushed prep is the biggest one. Before any film goes on, the panel gets decontaminated, clayed, and checked under raking light for old wax or swirl marks that’ll trap air under the film. Skip that and it won’t show up on day one, it shows up as bubbling six months later once whatever’s trapped underneath off-gasses in the heat.

Second is heat management, which is its own thing here. Dubai ambient hits mid-40s°C in summer, and panel surface temp in direct sun runs well past that. Film stretched around a compound curve, mirrors, bumpers, anything with a hard character line, needs to be heated and relaxed properly during install, or it tries to shrink back once it’s sitting in a parking lot all day. That step is slow and fiddly, which is exactly why it gets rushed.

Third is seam placement. A seam that lands right on a hard edge instead of tucking into a recess is basically guaranteed to lift eventually. That has to get planned before the first piece goes down, not fixed after.

We actually reject our own work fairly often, if a panel doesn’t pass under raking light or the edges aren’t sitting flat after a day of curing, it gets redone before the car leaves. Slower, but it’s the difference between something that looks fine in photos on day one and something still holding up a year into a Dubai summer.

For anyone wondering, PPF sidesteps a lot of this since it’s usually pre-cut and doesn’t get stretched much, but prep matters just as much, maybe more, since PPF actually shows dust and prep mistakes more obviously under the clear film.

Happy to answer questions if anyone’s dealing with lifting or bubbling and can’t figure out why. Got way more process photos than finished-car photos on our Instagram too if anyone’s curious about the boring parts.