Tuscan Wrap - Colours?

[Sibby]

I've been contemplating having my Tuscan wrapped for a while as the previous owner decided on painting the bonnet and grill black, not really to my taste. Respray is too expensive for now, so a wrap seems a good compromise.

What's the recommendations from here? Anyone a dab hand at photoshop?

I'm veering towards matte colours (avoiding black) like Frost Blue or a white, like these:
http://i56.tinypic.com/330rbx2.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7943/2584235513...
http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab347/devaneyf1...

Or to be more daring:
http://images.newcarnet.co.uk/magazine_lrg/Car-wra...
http://www.raccoon.co.uk/upload/images/Gallery%20i...
http://3m-gsc.co.uk/wrapyourcurves/admin/gallery/u...
http://www.wrapvehicles.co.uk/assets/img/dyn/1665c...
http://www.raccoon.co.uk/upload/images/Gallery%20i...

Here's what she looks like at the moment:

[Toady1]

You bought that car did you! He contacted me when I was looking but I didn't like the painted black stuff either! I'm loving the look of that ferrari or the orange lambo, the racoon bmw gets my vote too but that may be as I'm biased! ;-)

Have you had any quotes on it? I did and it was looking around the £2k mark for a full wrap

[angel4]

I have also been toying with the idea of a wrap.

No real reason other than a change, love the white ones :-)

Would be interested in what they look like upclose. i.e headlights etc

[Sibby]

I'm glad I'd overlooked the paint, it's a nice car underneeth.

Quotes of £1.5k - £2k depending on the colour. A dark matte red is winning at the moment.

I think the headlights look okay. It's the front bonnet and roof I'm curious about, how quickly it would wear/tear as mine's quite snug.

[rens914]

a respray is to expensive and a wrap isn't ??
i would never consider a wrap but that's a choice
if it's the black parts then have them resprayed
can't be more than 1/2 the price of a wrap
rens

[B3NNL]

Sibby said:

I'm glad I'd overlooked the paint, it's a nice car underneeth.

Quotes of £1.5k - £2k depending on the colour. A dark matte red is winning at the moment.

I think the headlights look okay. It's the front bonnet and roof I'm curious about, how quickly it would wear/tear as mine's quite snug.

1.5-2k is VERY conservative, had mine done and only paid for the materials as the company was sponsoring us, so provided labour free, cost us £1800 +VAT, labour would have easily doubled that! It took 1 person a whole day to do the pepper pot grill as it needs to be in filled. I removed the doors and lights for them and put it on axle stands to get the wheels off for access to th arches.
If it wasn't for the fact that the car was being done for a charity event, I would have and will just go for a respray next time.

Link to my wrap

[Djdan]

Wraps av seen are brilliant at first but seen a few that were done a couple of years back and they are starting to look a bit tatty now, ok if its only a temporary soultion

[so called]

For some reason I've always wanted to get mine UnionJacked.

[kds keltec]

I can help with one example as mine is white with black additions too







well its pearl white in fact.

can resist and posting some more as i am very proud















A few midway through the restoration process.








kelly

[braders]

Great looking Tuscan you should be proud

[Flying Penguin]

Can't help with the wrap, so slightly off- topic, but these wheel centres have an easy fix: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/45mm-wheel-centre-badges...

[B3NNL]

Flying Penguin said:

Can't help with the wrap, so slightly off- topic, but these wheel centres have an easy fix: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/45mm-wheel-centre-badges...

That's great except 18" Spider centre caps are 60mm.

[Flying Penguin]

B3NNL said:

That's great except 18" Spider centre caps are 60mm.

That's absolutely correct. However, Jade R rims' centre caps are 45mm, which seems to be the case on the top picture.

[B3NNL]

Flying Penguin said:

That's absolutely correct. However, Jade R rims' centre caps are 45mm, which seems to be the case on the top picture.

Check you out! Never even noticed that, every days a school day!

[geoffphead]

Sibby said:

I've been contemplating having my Tuscan wrapped for a while as the previous owner decided on painting the bonnet and grill black, not really to my taste. Respray is too expensive for now, so a wrap seems a good compromise.

What's the recommendations from here? Anyone a dab hand at photoshop?

I'm veering towards matte colours (avoiding black) like Frost Blue or a white, like these:
http://i56.tinypic.com/330rbx2.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7943/2584235513...
http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab347/devaneyf1...

Or to be more daring:
http://images.newcarnet.co.uk/magazine_lrg/Car-wra...
http://www.raccoon.co.uk/upload/images/Gallery%20i...
http://3m-gsc.co.uk/wrapyourcurves/admin/gallery/u...
http://www.wrapvehicles.co.uk/assets/img/dyn/1665c...
http://www.raccoon.co.uk/upload/images/Gallery%20i...

Here's what she looks like at the moment:

This was my wrapped pearl white Tam

[Flying Penguin]

B3NNL said:

Check you out! Never even noticed that, every days a school day!

My fault anyway for stealing the thread

[Sibby]

Thanks for all the feedback, quite mixed!

rens914 said:

a respray is to expensive and a wrap isn't ??
i would never consider a wrap but that's a choice
if it's the black parts then have them resprayed
can't be more than 1/2 the price of a wrap
rens

It's the silver as well, never really been a fan. Alas, was the car I was buying not the colour.

B3NNL said:

1.5-2k is VERY conservative, had mine done and only paid for the materials as the company was sponsoring us, so provided labour free, cost us £1800 +VAT, labour would have easily doubled that!

That looks stunning! A lot of work for sure. It's the quote I've been given which I didn't think was that bad at all either... Almost rude to turn it down really.

kds keltec said:

I can help with one example as mine is white with black additions too

Kelly, that's definitely a car to be proud of. Like the cam cover, got mine in red . Think I'll keep the front grill black, looks good.

Flying Penguin said:

That's absolutely correct. However, Jade R rims' centre caps are 45mm, which seems to be the case on the top picture.

Nice spot! Hadn't got round to the caps just yet, but at least there's now a solution.

geoffphead said:

This was my wrapped pearl white Tam

Cheers, looks like a nice job. White seems to be a very popular colour to go for..


Have been trawling Google for something a bit unique to catch the black alloys & grill, think this is the best so far - http://files.autogespot.com/autogespot/files/24_10...

[tvr lytham]

for me the mat blue on the skyline looks really good, you want some thing that will make your tuscan unique to any other!