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colonel00 Enthusiast

colonel00

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It's easy enough to wrap yourself.  To me, the hardest part is getting the parts out which you'd have to do anyway to paint them.  Get some good vinyl and a hair dryer and you can do some amazing work.  As a bonus, if you don't like it, peel it off and go again. :)

 

You could probably do everything for $15-20 in vinyl

Yogiarana Enthusiast

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It's easy enough to wrap yourself.  To me, the hardest part is getting the parts out which you'd have to do anyway to paint them.  Get some good vinyl and a hair dryer and you can do some amazing work.  As a bonus, if you don't like it, peel it off and go again. [emoji4]
 
You could probably do everything for $15-20 in vinyl
Do you know roughly what the cost difference is between the two ?

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1 minute ago, Yogiarana said:

Do you know roughly what the cost difference is between the two ?

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Not sure exactly what you mean.  I guess a can of spray paint is what, $5?  You can get a decent roll of vinyl that is 1'x5' for $15 or so.  You might need a little more do do all of the trim I guess but that's still a fairly minimal extra cost to have an option that's not permanent.  That's still a lot cheaper than having to buy all new trim pieces because you don't like how the painting turns out (regardless of several potential attempts).  

 

All that said, paint can look fantastic and I guess the application could be a little easier, depending on the necessary prep work,  than applying vinyl wrap.  I guess I'm just saying that trying something out in a non-permanent way at least lets you see if you really like something before you are all-in with no going back.

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Not sure exactly what you mean.  I guess a can of spray paint is what, $5?  You can get a decent roll of vinyl that is 1'x5' for $15 or so.  You might need a little more do do all of the trim I guess but that's still a fairly minimal extra cost to have an option that's not permanent.  That's still a lot cheaper than having to buy all new trim pieces because you don't like how the painting turns out (regardless of several potential attempts).  
 
All that said, paint can look fantastic and I guess the application could be a little easier, depending on the necessary prep work,  than applying vinyl wrap.  I guess I'm just saying that trying something out in a non-permanent way at least lets you see if you really like something before you are all-in with no going back.
Yea but if I was gonna paint the interior I'd do it with all the preparation with the soaps sanding down and all that it be more then just $5 so probably cheaper to just wrap it

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cbrsilv15 Senior Enthusiast

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21 hours ago, Yogiarana said:

Was this chrome before you painted this? I wanted to do this also but was told painting chrome was not a good idea since it chips and I was better off wrapping it

They were all chrome. I cleaned and scuffed them really good and used adhesion promoter as well. 

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They were all chrome. I cleaned and scuffed them really good and used adhesion promoter as well. 
If done right it should hold up fine debating on painting or wrapping. Did you do grille and bumper too?

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