VaclavSV

I have met a guy who does vinyl wraps for all sorts of exotics. He has offered me a price of 4K cash for them to pick up my car on a flatbed, fully detail the car inside and out, wrap the car by taking off parts such as door handles etc. They do very high quality work. Anyways the 4K was for a chrome wrap like in these pictures....



If I wanted a matte material it would cost about $1000 less.

What do you guys think of the chrome wrap? Do you think I should go in a different direction? Any input would be great!

acroholic

That silver wrap looks like someone wants some attention. The entire effect is a bit too garish for my taste. Now a nice, lower key carbon fiber wrap might be another story.

VaclavSV

I find the CF wraps to look cheap to me. What about a brushed finish?

acroholic

A brushed finish would probably be great. Silver is my favorite color!

shades

To be honest, I think they want way to much for wraps in Toronto. It's still only a wrap and not a full paint job. You can actually get a great paint job for that price. Wraps are very cool but for that price....not

tomespo

For a good wrap, expect to pay 4-5k. 4k is fair if he does an amazing job. I will be wrapping mine myself. I like doing everything myself especially when the materials are 800.00 max

acroholic

I had SpeedFilm applied to the front bumper, fenders, and hood of my C63. Is a wrap applied like that?

USCGTO

I need to understand how safely a wrap can be removed from a vehicle. I would do that in a heartbeat if the after effects on the paint underneath were established.

Maverick1975

I think that is a fair price for a wrap if they are pulling window trim off door handles, mirrors, bumpers tail lights etc. you cant get a good finish unless that is done, other wise you see edges etc and that is crap.

shades

I'm not saying just anyone can do it, but its not hard by any means more so PITA. If you feel 4-5k is a good price for you, who is anyone to tell you it's not.

Here's my take for example. I walk into a wrap detail place and ask for a price on a mid-size car wrap. The guy tells me it depends on the graphics and advertisement that I want on the car. So I proceed to ask him about his method on wrapping the car....panels off, around windshields etc...he tells me they always do one process on wraps and he doesn't cut corners or half a$$ it. Sounds good right. I then ask him about a plain color wrap with maybe just letters on the driver and passenger doors, he tells me that this would be way cheaper because of such a plain wrap.

Now here comes my disapointment, I ask him how much for my c63, he smiles and says nice car, how about $4200 sound fair....I looked at him with the deer in the headlights look on my face and said are you f'ing crazy.

Well to say the least I felt like I was getting hosed so I took my company car to get wrapped at another place. (The real reason why I was there in the first place)

shades

Sorry, forgot to mention that the company car with all the crazy graphics on the wrap was about a 1k cheaper.

I think its a really cool way to change the look of your car maybe from year to year but 4-5k is hella expensive. Especially with the guys on the other side of the pond doing it for like $1500-2k.

Roswell

Don't do the chrome wrap Sajun!! Ur only asking for troubles with the cops.

By law, we're not even allowed to have reflective tint so a reflective wrap on the whole car is a big no no. They will ask u to remove it therefore u will have waste 4k$.

VaclavSV

but it looks so cool! There actually is a guy with a CLS 55 in Ontario with the chrome wrap who was done by this company. Not sure how he gets away with it.

Roswell

He only drives his car on cloudy days. :P lol

Gremlin9

Get the car wrapped in a condom to keep it disease-free.

Plus, it will be totally original and look cool as hell...

VaclavSV

You're honestly still on this forum. ****. Last time I checked you were the disease.....

Faris63

These two cars are local in LA and I've seen both cars, to be honest they don't look good in person specially the C63
I've seen many chromed cars in Dubai but they look cleaner because they do it different way than shops here which cost double the price around $8000-$10,000 this material get scratches so fast what they do is, they put the first layer chrome and the second layer clear bra to the whole car to keep it always clear and doesn't get scratches thats if you wanna do right

CoolBDPhenom03

THAT would be cool.

VaclavSV

Thoughts?

Jycke

Not in my taste but if you like the way it looks that's all that matters

_timothy

Getting a chrome wrap like that is basically the equivalent of inverting your *****.

ddcha

Doesn't Bieber have a chrome car? just sayin'

///Mike

Thats is a great price for 4k.. I've heard of people paying up to 7k for that exact wrap!

Rsquad911

How much they charging for regular matte colored material?

VaclavSV

Regular matte coloured is $2800. This is a discounted price a friend offered me. For the Brushed Blue Metallic it would be $3500.