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If you have had any practice with vinyl wrapping before, I suggest you do it yourself. Wrapping the roof isn't very hard and you can purchase the material from numerous vendors now.
What are you guys doing about those side strips along the roof?? Just 1 piece over everything? Or vinyl those separately? or ordering black strips?
I'm planning on vinyl'ing my buddies IS.. I've already done my GS along with another but those strips go from the bottom of the front window to the bottom of the rear window so it wasn't a problem.
Originally Posted by RDIS250AWD
did it myself on my last 250.
$180 for a 60 x 65 3M Carbon Fiber vinyl + 2 and a half hours of my time
Originally Posted by whitebeast
I ordered 3M and few hour DIY
Originally Posted by felo2081
I found a local shop that did mine for 200 dollars, IMO it made a big difference on my car it being silver
What are you guys doing about those side strips along the roof?? Just 1 piece over everything? Or vinyl those separately? or ordering black strips?
The guy who did mine for me wrapped the side strips separately. He warned me there may be some issues getting the vinyl to stick on such a thin strip, but they came out fine. Oddly, I did end up with some bubbling in the crease between the strip and the roof, but nothing major. Just used a pin to pop the bubbles and flattened them out, barely noticeable now.
I did a buddy's '11 WRX a few weeks back. Bought the materials for $60 bucks, gloss black 3M 1080 Scotchprint and did it. The more people you have to help hold the material up the better and a felt tipped hard card is a life saver, besides that its fairly basic.
Sounds good, thanks guys... I appreciate the responses, I'm going to try to wrap those separately and see how they come out.
Originally Posted by Crispy
The guy who did mine for me wrapped the side strips separately. He warned me there may be some issues getting the vinyl to stick on such a thin strip, but they came out fine. Oddly, I did end up with some bubbling in the crease between the strip and the roof, but nothing major. Just used a pin to pop the bubbles and flattened them out, barely noticeable now.
Originally Posted by felo2081
The guy who did my wrap also did them but I heard of a few members that just did the roof and order them separately and they were not too expensive
I did a buddy's '11 WRX a few weeks back. Bought the materials for $60 bucks, gloss black 3M 1080 Scotchprint and did it. The more people you have to help hold the material up the better and a felt tipped hard card is a life saver, besides that its fairly basic.
What size did you get to cover the entire roof on an ISX50? And did you order it from eBay at the $60 dollar price?
Originally Posted by felo2081
The guy who did my wrap also did them but I heard of a few members that just did the roof and order them separately and they were not too expensive
Is there a reason you guys aren't just covering the entire roof including the side strips? Can't you just use a card and push the material down in the crack between the roof and the strip?
Originally Posted by SCWB
What did you guys use to cut the vinyl? A cutter?
You can just use an xacto-knife, but they also sell vinyl cutting string but I've never used that.