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Old 09-21-2017, 10:08 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by seifrob View Post
So large, so complicated surface! How did you manage to wrap it and not get tangled? I am planning something similar. Would you mind to share your method in more details? Did you wet the roof with washing up liquid water? How did you layed it? Is it e-bay wrap, or special brand?
I am almost dying out of curiosity. My father has the same car and I was considering to use silver spray on the roof. Your solution is better.
I have a bit of experience tinting my own windows, so that helped a little.

Doing it in one piece was definitely a risk. It's eBay wrap, I couldn't find any branded wrap for sale in small quantities locally.

I just applied my wrap dry. I don't think slip solution would be much help in such a large area, it would tend to try out before you can really use it. You need two people and at least two ladders - ideally a pair of platforms.

Prep with Iron-X and clay bar to 100% decontaminate the paint.

I started by rolling out the wrap out on the roof. Wrap comes in 1510mm wide so I had to trim a bit off the width, I just used a pair of scissors and followed the guidelines on the backing paper.

Then I rolled it back up in reverse (so that the wax paper side faces out). I started at the front and peeled back about 30cm, stretched and stuck it down in place. This part needs to be perfect as if it's even 1mm out, you'll be quite askew by the time you get to the end. Then I just worked back pulling on the wax paper and keeping it taught.

Wrap is much easier than tinting, small bubbles come out via little channels in the film, though they seem to seal up if you try to get too much air out of them.

Wrapping was actually easy and fun (and cheap at about $50 to do a big roof), I plan on doing more of it. I've ordered a roll of shadow chrome to do the uninsulated matte black roof on my Jeep. You can really feel the heat radiation off that thing as matte black is the hottest possible colour

I like the black roof look so I might shadow chrome the visible front part of the van roof depending on how it looks and how it performs.
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