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Old 07-11-2015, 07:09 PM
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Asking mod opinion, good or bad??

This is not my car, just saw it on a parking lot and really digging it




My car is a magnetite black, here's an old picture before I changed the headlight.




It's almost the same color, but mine with glitters and a bit more green-ish, just slightly. So, yay, or nay??

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I think it looks great on black. Vinyl wrap?
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I'm not sure yet. What do you think the cost of wrapping it though? I'll try to get some quotes around as well
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I'm not sure yet. What do you think the cost of wrapping it though? I'll try to get some quotes around as well
Should be less than $100.
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Kinda dig it. It's like a pseudo center splitter. Wonder how that'd look on a white with either black or one of the newer 4D CF wrap.
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Nice I like it
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Seen that coupe at the northgate mall. He has 507 decals on the side also if thats the same one. Your front plate would need to go though. I'm sure Wu wraps could do it for you no problem.
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I saw it in northgate mall as well Right now, I just need to decide to whether to go with the 3M G-120 (Gloss White Aluminum) or 3M BR-120 (Brushed Aluminum) or 3M S-120 (Satin White Aluminum).

3M G-120 Gloss White Aluminum

3M BR-120 Brushed Aluminum

3M S-120 Satin White Aluminum

I really liked the Brushed Aluminum and the Satin White Aluminum The Gloss White Aluminum looks pretty subtle to me.

My best bud said go with brushed, it's more sporty. I'm afraid that it would look dull though

What is your opinion?

Thanks for replying to my thread anyway!!

Oh yeah, I did remove my license plate away from the bumper
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The Gloss white is my choice. Would look very similar to the
Coupe above. Brushed is nice seen that in person either one would look great. We should do a W204 meet before summer is up there's a few on here from the PNW
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It is done people!!! Wrapped it with 3M 1080 BR-120 Love it!! It's pretty good I think for a first time.
















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Looks like a clean job. Did you make an outline and precut, or cut on the car?
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Thanks! I just made a rough cut, then cut slowly one by one, especially on the corner. Then, trim it slowly using a "not so sharp" cutter. Tips is that wait till the wrap is cooled down, don't cut it right away after u heat it with the heat gun

Practice on paper first is good as well, try to make sure that you can make a pre-cut line on a piece of paper, then try to pull it apart using your finger, so it will not hit your actual paint!
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Another thing I've seen shops do is basically use a small thin vinyl strip layered around the edges to hide rough cut lines. From a distance, can't even see the strip, but up close, looks just like a bezel.

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Originally Posted by AZN Optics
Another thing I've seen shops do is basically use a small thin strip layered around the edges to hide rough cut lines. From a distance, can't even see the strip, but up close, looks just like a bezel.
It's called cutting tape I think
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......parking - IIRC - would call for no more than 18 inches out (from the curb, man!!)


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Looks great. I dipped mine in black since the car is white. Love the outcome.

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