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Old 10-22-10, 08:03 AM
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Planning to wrap my car with matte black, seeing it is the cheaper option than painting. If wrapping is done with 3m, is it easy to remove or it be a pain? and is it possible to paint over the wrapped?
Old 10-23-10, 11:28 PM
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You cannot paint over the wrap.

You can, but that would probably be a bad idea.
Old 10-24-10, 08:52 AM
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If you wrap an entire car yes its going to be a pain haha. No you cant paint over wrap it wont stick (well yes it will literally stick I think you get the idea)
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Well, for matte black you have a few options. Of course there is the spray can method
which is the cheapest. Then you can buy a roll of 3M vinyl wrap material for around $500 dollars. It all depends on how much you care about the exterior of your car. Obviously
with the vinyl method, you can remove it later on. Spray can will probably take a few
hours vs vinyl which will take an ametuer about two full days and it will help to have a
second set of hands. Matte vinyl wraps look much better IMO but then again I'm biased
since I'm in the vinyl industry.
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I would just paint the car flat black. It looks amazing on the cars and its pretty cheap.
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I'm thinking about doing the same since i just put a vtex front bumper side nd rear lip. I still have'nt found a spot to do the vinyl wrap in my New York location.
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It is very easy and cheap to paint your car with a matte black----just buy a base coat of whatever color you like--------rent or buy a small hvac compressor----not expensive---and paint away----------of course because it is matte-----it hides alot of imperfections in your body
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