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sc0urge · 03-25-2015, 02:35 AM

That's a great looking color. More pics would be nice if you have them! I've always been curious though, what's the maintenance like for vinyl-wrapped cars? I saw Larry talk about BMW's "Frozen" paint on Drive Clean and it seemed relatively tough to maintain if you ever got scratches on it. Is it the same for vinyl?

Martinius · 03-25-2015, 10:58 AM

@ChrisD, are you the dude with the turbo'd GT86 from the video on Car Throttle? Just watched the video, the car sounds nice man, excellent exhaust!

ChrisD · 03-31-2015, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Martinius

@ChrisD, are you the dude with the turbo'd GT86 from the video on Car Throttle? Just watched the video, the car sounds nice man, excellent exhaust!

Yeah that would be me

Someone asked for more pics so here you go:

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ChrisD · 03-31-2015, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by sc0urge

That's a great looking color. More pics would be nice if you have them! I've always been curious though, what's the maintenance like for vinyl-wrapped cars? I saw Larry talk about BMW's "Frozen" paint on Drive Clean and it seemed relatively tough to maintain if you ever got scratches on it. Is it the same for vinyl?

Well I've only had it wrapped for a few weeks so I guess I can't really comment on long term looking after it, but so far it's been no different to owning a car that isn't wrapped.

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sr86 · 04-01-2015, 01:56 AM

Just a question. How do you maintain and protect those vinyl film? What's the usual life span of these?

cdo221 · 04-01-2015, 03:13 AM

Man that looks good! Great color choice

Joakim3 · 04-06-2015, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by sr86

Just a question. How do you maintain and protect those vinyl film? What's the usual life span of these?

Apart from putting the car through the car washes from hell (the giant rotating bristles) you treat it like regular paint

For a matte wrap like this one.... 2-3 years on average mainly due to constant UV exposure ruining the matte texture (if it is kept inside 24/7, then longer)

Something more metallic or OEM can go for 5+ years if you take care of them

NissanGuy · 04-06-2015, 04:23 AM

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STANCE! Are you on stock strut/sway bar?

Car looks great, the quality of wrap looks absolute master-class. Given the choice, I personally would go for a nice retina-searing hue. But WRB is nice too

EDIT: Ah, V3s. Reading is essential.

They sure look soft, I like.

ChrisD · 04-13-2015, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by NissanGuy

STANCE! Are you on stock strut/sway bar?

Car looks great, the quality of wrap looks absolute master-class. Given the choice, I personally would go for a nice retina-searing hue. But WRB is nice too

EDIT: Ah, V3s. Reading is essential.

They sure look soft, I like.

Yeah stock sway bar but KW V3s (which had pretty soft settings here as this was from the first few laps before I got round to adjusting it)

V_86 · 04-13-2015, 11:35 AM

What's the little bump below the headlights? Do UK spec have headlight washers?

ChrisD · 04-13-2015, 12:04 PM

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What's the little bump below the headlights? Do UK spec have headlight washers?

Yeah they're headlight washers. Assumed it was just an optional extra on any model, not something specific to the UK.

V_86 · 04-13-2015, 12:31 PM

N. America spec does not get those. Hell we don't get anything that I would gladly spend a little bit more in the msrp to have.

Ammonia · 04-13-2015, 04:00 PM

Beautiful! Ever think about more low? Even if not it looks amazing, great color.

ChrisD · 04-20-2015, 06:22 PM

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Beautiful! Ever think about more low? Even if not it looks amazing, great color.

Thanks

Yeah I did have it lower before but it caused a few issues on the rather bumpy roads we have round here. Might lower it another few mm soon though.

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