Don Nguyen

Here are pictures of an Lexus ISF that I vinyl wrapped the roof in the 3M Di-noc material. As you can kind of see in some of the pictures, from a distance away, the material will almost give you a matte/flat black look. However, as you get closer to it, you'll be able to see the design and weave of the cf vinyl appear. The owner of this car came out to me in Irvine/Orange County. Hopefully these pictures will also help give an idea of how the 3M di noc carbon fiber material looks like on darker car and cars with sunroofs.













-Don

donathon@gmail.com

Don Nguyen

I had a new silver Lexus CT200h come by to have me vinyl wrap his roof with the 3M di-noc matte carbon fiber material. The owner of this car was also from Irvine / Orange County. Took some close up pictures around the antenna area and side rails, just to show you the extent of the vinyl coverage and it looks up close. I think the roof accented the silver color of the car fairly well, especially since this carbon fiber finish has somewhat of a silver/gray tone to it, even though it is the black carbon fiber finish. The owner of this car also wants me to wrap his hood with the 3M dinoc carbon fiber material and tint his tails as well, so once I do those, I'll post some more pictures.

















-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

Don Nguyen

Here is a more recent car that I did some vinyl work on. I got lucky to work on this really cool brand new factory matte paint CLS63. I did a lot of things to this car that day. Firstly, we decided to go with the matte black around the window trims and rear chrome trunk handle to black it out and tone down the high contrast between that and the paint/rest of the car. Then we went around the car and smoked/tinted out the tail lights, head lights, and lower bumper light pieces. For the rear tail lights, I only tinted the clear portion and left the red portion. This toned the clear portion down a bit but left the red nice and bright to give it a good contrast/pop in the rear, which also matched the other red accents on the car. For the front, I tinted the entire head light and also the lower bumper lights to bring their contrast down and make them in with the lower bumper mesh area.

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Clear portion tinted/smoked


Clear portion untinted/unsmoked


Entire front headlight smoked/tinted, lower bumper light unsmoked/untintinted


Front headlight unsmoked/untinted, lower bumper light smoked/tinted


After, with everything done.












-Don

donathon@gmail.com

Don Nguyen

For this black Lexus IS350 F sport, I blacked out the chrome/brushed aluminum window trim with my matte black vinyl material. It may be a bit hard to see the chrome in the before pictures, but blacking out the chrome trim completely changed the look of the car. It gave the IS a sportier look and made the window trim become more subtle by blending it into the car better. The owner of this car drove out to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange County to have the vinyl work done.

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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

LoveThatV8

iTrader: (1)

If I ever purchase a front lip, instead of myself sanding it down prepping for paint, do you wrap non-painted urethane lips? If so how durable would it be down there against road trips? Or is this not a suggested route? If it is possible, how much?

Don Nguyen

Yes, I can wrap those. However, depending on the shape/design of the lip, the cost will vary. I also have a painter who can paint the lip as well, if you are local to me. PM me more info (IE pictures of the lip, etc).

I lightly tinted/smoked the tail lights on this Lexus GS350 sedan. Due to the lighting, the tail lights may not look tinted in the after pictures, but you can see the contrast and comparison in the during picture (third picture) between the tinted/smoked tail lights versus the stock tail light in the same lighting conditions. The film is fairly light, which gives it an OEM+ look without looking too dark. Anything darker than this, and you run a higher chance of getting pulled over for tail lights that are too dark. The owner of this car was in Orange County as well and came out to me in Anaheim Hills to get the tint work done.

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Driver/left side tinted/smoked - Passenger/right side stock:


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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

Kd0t

iTrader: (17)

Do you wrap the full car?

Don Nguyen

The owner of this brand new white Lexus IS350 sedan brought his car by to have me vinyl wrap his roof with my gloss black vinyl material. He was from Orange county as well and came out to me in Anaheim Hills to get the work done. The car was still stock, but I think the gloss black roof still went fairly well with the car. The gloss black roof still maintains a factory clean look.

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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

LEXISM

iTrader: (2)

do you install clear bra?

Don Nguyen

PM sent.

Thanks.

-Don

Don Nguyen

In addition to vinyl wrapping, I have started offering plasti dipping services.

I did quite a bit of work on this Black Mercedes Benz E350 blutech. I blacked out the chrome/brushed aluminum window trim, lower chrome door pieces, and rear trunk chrome bar with my gloss black vinyl material, lightly smoked/tinted the tail lights, plasti dipped the wheels, rear badges, and front grill. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the front grill after I was done. The owner of this car came from San Diego up to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange County to have the vinyl work and plastidip work done on his car.

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Driver/left side tinted/smoked - Passenger/right side stock:


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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

Don Nguyen

Forgot to take before pictures of this Silver Lexus IS350 F sport, but I am sure you can imagine how the original chrome/brushed aluminum window trim looked like on there before. I wrapped the window trim and front grill with my matte black finish material. The owner of this car was local to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange county as well, somewhere towards Inland Empire I believe. Although the window trim is a relatively small piece on the car, it still changes the look of the car quite a bit when done. Blacking out the chrome gives the car a much sportier look to it.











-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

Don Nguyen

This is something different and new that I haven’t done before. I had blacked out the chrome trimming on this Lexus IS350 sedan in the past, but this time the owner of the car had me apply my tint/smoke film, which is what I normally use on the tail lights I’ve posted, to the front center emblem of the car to slightly tone it down. The pictures I took of it inside aren’t the best, since the lighting was pretty dark. However, you can still get an idea of how it looks like before/after the film was applied.

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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

Don Nguyen

For this white 2014 Maserati Ghibli sedan, I vinyl wrapped the roof of the car in my gloss black vinyl material to give it the panoramic roof look. The owner of this car drove out to me in Anaheim Hills/Orange County, from Los Angeles to have the vinyl work done. Even though the car was brand new, the gloss black roof still changed the look of the car completely to the owner of the car. The owner had me leave the side rails body colored and only wrapped the center of the roof. This will give an idea to those who want to see what it looks like to have just the center of the roof wrapped only and keep the side rails body colored.

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-Don Nguyen

donathon@gmail.com

Don Nguyen

I have had quite a few people ask me if I do full car wraps. Yes I do. Here is a Honda S2000 track car that I vinyl wrapped completely in the 3M dinoc matte carbon fiber finish. From afar the dinoc material looks like regular flat black, which gives it a very stealth fighter look. However, as you get closer to the car, that’s when you start seeing the pattern and carbon fiber weave better, which is a cool effect imo.





















-Don Nguyen

Donathon@gmail.com