How hard could it be...

[St. Anger]

Afternoon folks.

The paint on my MX5 is beginning to look a bit tired and in need of attention, but I refuse to pay ~£1000 to respray a car only worth £700 - I also fancy a bit of a colour change and have therefore decided it would be a good idea to try and wrap it myself.

Anybody done this sort of thing before? I am willing to put the time into it as I understand it would be a long and tedious job, but I've sort of convinced myself that because the panels are pretty flat(ish) it wouldn't be overly complicated to do.

So I hand it over to PH, is this another one of my overly-ambitious plans which will cost me a fortune and fail or will it really be that simple?

[Rawwr]

Dead easy. Be sure to post up photos of the results.

[mercfunder]

Price up the Vinyl, it probably won't work out much cheaper than a respray.

[JagJag363]

I saw a TV programme of them wrapping a Lotus Elise (i think) with union jack vinyl, it looked very hard.

[St. Anger]

Rawwr said:

Dead easy. Be sure to post up photos of the results.

If "Project Wrapping" goes underway, rest assured it will be well documented on here regardless of successfullness.

Also, I never even knew we had a Bodywork forum...

[RedSpiseeBalls]

personally I think it'll be very hard, and you might need some help too

[Squiggs]

I get the impession it's at the very least a two person job .... and that's when they both know what they're doing.

[Defcon5]

Would a good detail sort it out?

[rog007]

How hard can it be to chuck some cling film on a car?

[trv8]

Or you could try this method.....
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

And is Available here....
http://www.plastidip.co.uk/eStore/index.cfm?type=D...

Edited by trv8 on Sunday 4th March 06:42

[RedWater]

Never heard of that Plastic stuff before - very interesting!

[St. Anger]

That's very interesting indeed. Especially the glow in the dark yellow...!

I've got a spare wing laying in my bedroom, I plan on buying a tin of that plastic stuff and seeing how it goes - will create a thread when I do!