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Old 07-24-2011, 04:05 PM   #308
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I would get a red or white car and put the vinyl on it, just make sure you get the longest lasting vinyl you can. And get it professionally installed, it's easy to mess up and/or damage the paint job on the car if you don't know what you're doing.

Ideally, you would do it with paint so you don't have to worry about the vinyl cracking. But, if you were going to wrap the whole car in vinyl, I would probably coat the whole car in one color, then put the secondary vinyl over it. Other wise you have a few scenarios with an all vinyl job:
1: you butt the edges of the vinyl together so that they don't overlap. This leaves a crack that will widen over time as the vinyl shrinks and collect grime.
2: you overlap the vinyl a bit to remove the gap. This leaves a slightly raised ridge along the border that will be glaringly obvious and not look as good.
3: you Wrap the whole car in the color of your choice, but still have to run into the problems in scenario 1 and 2 since most single color vinyl maxes out at a 4-6 foot width. then you place the secondary color over the primary vinyl you don't have the problems in Scenarios 1 & 2 between the primary and secondary.

When you see a vehicle wrapped in an advertising vinyl, the seams aren't as noticeable due to the rest of the obnoxious graphics that cover it.
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