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Tried my Hand at CF Wrap Today

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Tried a bit of CF wrapping today.Didnt pick anything easy although I should have.

A rear wing for our new Suzuki Vitara:

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The inside door handle assembly formy new FTO.
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    Oooh pretty neat job, i remember when i wrapped my center console on my prelude a few swear words were said that day, and probably a few new ones too. but looks like you did pretty good! :D
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    Yeah, took a while, but getting better at it. Should have chosen something fairly flat to start with though. Heat gun makes a huge difference.
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      Nice work.
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      looks good!
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      looks good mate
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      Looks great in the pics.
      How is it in person?
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      Im a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to this sort of stuff, so I tend to notice all the things I wish were better. Its reasonable, but I had to put a join on the lower handle area and the indents in front of the window switches arent perfect. I possibly would have been better cutting those out. Having said that, there arent any creases,rips or bubbles.
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        Looks good
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        And did the upper console today (with and without flash):

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          Noice! I reckon if I was ever to do anything to the interior it would be something like that. I really don't mind how everything looks stock, but that's a good way to clean things up a bit.
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          Did you do it over the top as well?
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          Yes, but had to do a join. Just playing around at the moment and learning howto best do things.
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            I like the door handles.. Me wants..
            I just had to add it ......
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            Even though the workmanship seems spot on, personally I think fake carbon on a car especially of this high standard only detracts from it.
            Have you tried vinyl wrapping coarse plastics, like the under door sills for example? Maybe some brushed aluminum wrap on them would look good
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            Even though the workmanship seems spot on, personally I think fake carbon on a car especially of this high standard only detracts from it.
            Have you tried vinyl wrapping coarse plastics, like the under door sills for example? Maybe some brushed aluminum wrap on them would look good
            This isnt my Aero, its my daily drive and just experimenting at the moment. Not sure if itll stay. Hadnt thought of the door sills. The complete car is going to be wrapped soon, so may have a bit of a play with them then.
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              For almost seamless joins, you can use Knifeless Tape.

              It is a thin tape that has a filament inside that cuts the vinyl when removed.

              You stick it where you want the cut or join to be, then you stick on the vinyl.

              If you need a join, slightly overlap the two pieces then pull the filament out of the tape and remove the excess pieces of tape.

              Because you overlap the vinyl, the join will now be almost invisible.
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              ^ that sounds like a cool product!
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