Unwrapping a Wrapped Car: Anyone done it?
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Would be interested in hearing opinions on this too.
Had my car wrapped by Raccoon last year (who subsequently went to the wall), was incidentally intending to get it dewrapped within a year or so after I had become bored of it/fancied a change but now I don't know who to speak to about it.
Had my car wrapped by Raccoon last year (who subsequently went to the wall), was incidentally intending to get it dewrapped within a year or so after I had become bored of it/fancied a change but now I don't know who to speak to about it.
Slightly different but we have the back doors of our vans photo-wrapped, the transit connect went in to have a new design put on.
They put the van in the oven to heat it and then started to peel the sticker off aided with some heat guns - somehow they managed to peel off some of the paint too leaving a nice orange skin effect.
Doors off, major rubdown, respray and then re sticker.
They said it was the first time anything like that had happened, and I did believe them as they were quite upset about it!
They put the van in the oven to heat it and then started to peel the sticker off aided with some heat guns - somehow they managed to peel off some of the paint too leaving a nice orange skin effect.
Doors off, major rubdown, respray and then re sticker.
They said it was the first time anything like that had happened, and I did believe them as they were quite upset about it!
Hi all, for marketing purposes we wrapped an 05 Vogue Range Rover, this was around 3 years ago, we kept the wrap on for around 8 months, although as i remember the firm we used ( a small firm in Derby) who wrapped racing cars, plus various others. The RR was originally silver and our then wrap design was white, pink and black. The design was superb and as a marketing tool it was very effective. The total cost was £1,600 inc design etc. The quality of the job was great.....obviously the company would make no guarantees when it came to us unwrapping the car...but their advice was to remove the wrapping after 12 months to be safe...we used a paint/bodyshop contact to remove the wrapping....i was rather worried when he started using a heat gun ( bbq style by the looks of it....but apart from the fact it was very time consuming and very fiddly, all the wrapping was removed ( after about 2 whole days on the job) there was no serious paint damage but there were areas of stickiness all over. The bodyshop did use an electric mop to get all these parts buffed with a some sort of compound. In the end all was ok but a big faff, but then again LR paint is not the best in the first place !!!!
Good question and one I have been asking myself. Can't help but feel that what ever the 'glue' used it has probably has not been R & D'd enough to allow for an easy removal that affect the adhered-to lacquer and paint. I'll soon be in the Market for a new car and if I can't find the right car in the right colour then a wrap appeals, but only if the original paint was spared abuse. My instinct is that this will remain a problem until there is a truly paint-friendly product.
Edited by Digger on Monday 13th September 11:26
remove it on a hot day, and pull the vinyl directly back - don't just pull it off so it comes off at 90 degrees to the bodywork otherwise you start stressing weak paintwork (which as others have found just pulls straight off).
so when you pull the vinyl, you want to be pulling it back against where it has been laid. the hot day will also allow you to take bigger sections off quickly. the colder the day the more brittle the material for removing - which is why they are using hairdryers.
so when you pull the vinyl, you want to be pulling it back against where it has been laid. the hot day will also allow you to take bigger sections off quickly. the colder the day the more brittle the material for removing - which is why they are using hairdryers.
t on a blanket.i had my old 205 wrapped and when i came to remove it the wrap took the lacquer off in places, mainly the doors where it had been painted in the past.
I think if you have god paint under the wrap you should be ok. things like stone chips that are large or quite a lot on the front the paint will come too.
i had to get most of the car repainted after the wrap was off. i must stress the cars paint to start with was rubbish so i was expecting the wrap to pull off the paint....
I think if you have god paint under the wrap you should be ok. things like stone chips that are large or quite a lot on the front the paint will come too.
i had to get most of the car repainted after the wrap was off. i must stress the cars paint to start with was rubbish so i was expecting the wrap to pull off the paint....
tinman0 said:
remove it on a hot day, and pull the vinyl directly back - don't just pull it off so it comes off at 90 degrees to the bodywork otherwise you start stressing weak paintwork (which as others have found just pulls straight off).
so when you pull the vinyl, you want to be pulling it back against where it has been laid. the hot day will also allow you to take bigger sections off quickly. the colder the day the more brittle the material for removing - which is why they are using hairdryers.
yep. at 180 degrees to it.so when you pull the vinyl, you want to be pulling it back against where it has been laid. the hot day will also allow you to take bigger sections off quickly. the colder the day the more brittle the material for removing - which is why they are using hairdryers.
Digger said:
Do any wrapping companies offer any kind of guarantees that they will unwrap your vehicle (wrapped by them) without damaging the paintwork?
I doubt it. Trouble is that you are underwriting all the unknown paint defects, and whilst factory paint jobs will be pretty good most of the time, it only takes a bit of crappy paintwork from a crappy repair to have the guarantee pulled to bits.I had a Dodge Nitro *shudder* as a company vehicle which had a full wrap done.
When it came to remove it me and my dad did it ourselves. Used a hair dryer and one of us would heat the part of the wrap we were lifting whilst the other lifted with a bit pressure.
Some of the bits came off in full pieces. Others were a bit fiddly. No problems to the paintwork once done. Looked brand new.
I think if there is problems with the paintwork beforehand then the removal will cause a few headaches.
When it came to remove it me and my dad did it ourselves. Used a hair dryer and one of us would heat the part of the wrap we were lifting whilst the other lifted with a bit pressure.
Some of the bits came off in full pieces. Others were a bit fiddly. No problems to the paintwork once done. Looked brand new.
I think if there is problems with the paintwork beforehand then the removal will cause a few headaches.
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