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Old May 1, 2017 | 11:06 PM
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Taking your advice and started the mirrors tonight. They turned out decent for being probably the hardest part to wrap. Halo is next , followed by side splitters and a front splitter.


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Good job. I bet the were not easy.
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Good job. I bet the were not easy.
Agree turned out nice. I was thinking about a CF wrap on my rear diffuser. Local shop quoted me $450 and said he could not guarantee it from possible shrinking at a later date .

Your job looks great.

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Agree turned out nice. I was thinking about a CF wrap on my rear diffuser. Local shop quoted me $450 and said he could not guarantee it from possible shrinking at a later date .

Your job looks great.

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That's ridiculous. If you were local I would help you do it for the price of a 6 pack. I've been considering starting my own little wrapping side-gig so I take all the experience I can get

The mirrors are done in two pieces though. You can see in person how much curve they have, and I went through a ton of vinyl trying with 1 piece and it just would not lay on the bottom without bunching. They are far from perfect, but I figured it was a great learning experience and they turned out pretty decent

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Nice work with the mirrors. Where did you cut the vinyl for the second part?
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Nice work with the mirrors. Where did you cut the vinyl for the second part?
Very similar to this picture I found on another thread here: There are lines, but they face down enough you don't really see them unless you get up close. And you will have to use two pieces. There's no other way. I also popped out the mirrors themselves as it made tucking it a lot easier.

Also, I didn't remove the mirrors. Depending how good you are with your fingers, I was able to wrap the bottom piece (that attaches to the door panel) with 1 piece, and cut along the rubber with a sharp blade and was able to tuck it in by pushing it down with the dull end of the blade. Saved me a ton of time cause I didn't want to remove the door panels and risk breaking tabs and having rattles.





So it ends up like this:



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Came out great. I did mine. Once piece is extremely hard to do.
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Came out great. I did mine. Once piece is extremely hard to do.
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It really is. Not sure how you would do it unless you had 3 people and the perfect heating of the vinyl.
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Originally Posted by Ohshift
That's ridiculous. If you were local I would help you do it for the price of a 6 pack. I've been considering starting my own little wrapping side-gig so I take all the experience I can get

The mirrors are done in two pieces though. You can see in person how much curve they have, and I went through a ton of vinyl trying with 1 piece and it just would not lay on the bottom without bunching. They are far from perfect, but I figured it was a great learning experience and they turned out pretty decent
Glad you fessed up because I did my rear spoiler with CF vinyl, it was looking really good till I came to the very ends, then it stopped looking so good, just too much material and I couldn't get it to lay down, disappointed at that point so I took it off. Beyond my ability, maybe if I had split it into 2 pieces, maybe it would have worked.
Anyways good job, gotta try at least huh
I did do the mirrors on my ole Tundra and they looked OK but I had to stretch the living crap out of the material
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make sure to wrap the a pillars as well when you do the halo.
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Originally Posted by Not So Fast
Glad you fessed up because I did my rear spoiler with CF vinyl, it was looking really good till I came to the very ends, then it stopped looking so good, just too much material and I couldn't get it to lay down, disappointed at that point so I took it off. Beyond my ability, maybe if I had split it into 2 pieces, maybe it would have worked.
Anyways good job, gotta try at least huh
I did do the mirrors on my ole Tundra and they looked OK but I had to stretch the living crap out of the material
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PS Gotta have this little tool, works so good for tucking wrap in
https://www.amazon.com/Lil-Chizler-V...rs+vinyl+tools
Right..

Yeah I have a little squeegee that helped a ton with getting the stuff tucked. I bet I could pull it off and make it look better, but i'll go down that road when it/if it peels up.

And I think wrapping the exterior a pillars would be hard since they're not smooth like painted surfaces?
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