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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:22 AM
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Thanks Jim, I used to be a signwriter and applied a lot of premium ultra thin vinyl back then. I was amazed at the forgiving nature of the NiDoc, its wonderful to work with. Ive just ordered 10 feet of the brushed aluminium
Excellent. I wish they did the brushed alu look in other colours, but so far I've only found it in silver.

I'm still struggling with the wood insert in my door panel. I swear its bolted in. Maybe I should remove the whole door panel and look at it from behind
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:38 AM
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JIm- have you used the 3M brushed ali before
I do :




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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:38 AM
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I'm still struggling with the wood insert in my door panel. I swear its bolted in. Maybe I should remove the whole door panel and look at it from behind
Thats what i was going to recomend, im not sure if its actually removable.
Excellent. I wish they did the brushed alu look in other colours, but so far I've only found it in silver.
I got mine at MetroStyling. They have brushed Stainless Steel, Brushed Titanium, Brushed Gold and Brushed Blue Stainless Steel.
Check it: http://www.metrorestyling.com/3M-Sco...ap-s/17010.htm
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:52 AM
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Seems there is a whole world of Di-Noc.
WOW
Leathers, woods, metallic, High gloss, stone,Carbons obviously etc etc...

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3...beJ99QR0TDW9gl
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Dutchie101
Seems there is a whole world of Di-Noc.
WOW
Leathers, woods, metallic, High gloss, stone,Carbons obviously etc etc...

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3...beJ99QR0TDW9gl
Whoa that's quite impressive! Spoilt for choice on what to go for next once I get fed up of the carbon
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Old Nov 1, 2011 | 03:39 PM
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Hey the carbon weave wrap looks good (the second set of pictures, where it doesn't look blue, haha)! Sorry I don't know how to take the wood off the door, but I would imagine to start taking off the door panel first and looking behind it as a first step. If it's glued on, then I suppose your only resort is to pry it off without breaking it or wrap over it and tuck around the edges the best you can.
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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Dutchie101
Seems there is a whole world of Di-Noc.
WOW
Leathers, woods, metallic, High gloss, stone,Carbons obviously etc etc...

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3...beJ99QR0TDW9gl
awesome find! my project item list for my rebuild has just increased. lol
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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by J.Chimpo
Looks ok, you should at least make sure the weave is all going the same direction though. The shifter area is going one way, the center stack area is going the opposite direction and the pass side dash goes the opposite of the center area.
Reminds me of a story:

About 30 years ago, we were new to a neighborhood and were invited over by a nice, older British couple. (BTW, They were lobbying for me to hire their son who would soon be graduating from college in the UK. We hired him and he was an excellent employee.) When I returned from washing my hands before dinner, the lady asked if I noticed anything special about the wallpaper in the powder room since her husband had just re-done it the week before. I turned around and looked, but didn't see anything special. She announced in her decidedly British accent, "Oh, Phillip put it up wrong and all the butterflies are flying down the loo!"
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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 09:11 PM
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Another note:
One of the members on the Toyota Owners Club here is Australia has found out that a more realistic gloss finish can be easily accomplished by layering a smoked gloss vinyl over the top of the carbon Di-Noc. This gives a very realistic wet carbon result, best results require the smoke to the heated to conform to the carbon, ie hot air gun or hair dryer. The only problem is the double thickness of films can reduce the clearance of parts fitting together, so some shaving down of the parts may need to be done if required.
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