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Old 01-10-2013, 04:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Mangled03gmc
They also make 1080, it is from 3m aswell, you can get it in titanium, brushed stainless and a ton of other choices. I did my buddies BMW wood accents in it, it turned out really good. Plus I am about to become a dealer for it
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So what is the adhesive process on this stuff and what do you use to cut it with? Any explaination would be great! Also do you guys think this stuff could be used exterior? If so imagine a factory 4 bar grill wrapped in balck fiber. Could look sick!
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Originally Posted by shaw_426hemi
So what is the adhesive process on this stuff and what do you use to cut it with? Any explaination would be great! Also do you guys think this stuff could be used exterior? If so imagine a factory 4 bar grill wrapped in balck fiber. Could look sick!
There is a member that wrapped his bumper in a glass black and it looked amazing. Wish I remembered his user name.


I also bought some gloss black wrap a while back that I will try on one of my bumpers. Just been lazy, have about 4-5 little projects I need to get to for the truck
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Originally Posted by ak2007r6
There is a member that wrapped his bumper in a glass black and it looked amazing. Wish I remembered his user name.


I also bought some gloss black wrap a while back that I will try on one of my bumpers. Just been lazy, have about 4-5 little projects I need to get to for the truck
If you do that bumper definatly post pictures. If it works well for you i would consider blacking out my chrome bumpers with fiber. Only thing is, you would need a continuous roll to do it and not have seems right?
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Originally Posted by shaw_426hemi
If you do that bumper definatly post pictures. If it works well for you i would consider blacking out my chrome bumpers with fiber. Only thing is, you would need a continuous roll to do it and not have seems right?
I saw a few videos on Youtube of a guy joining two pieces and if you cut it and prep it a certain way you will never see the seam unless you are looking for it inches away


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this was a good video showing it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mBclTY_Uo
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This is the truck I was thinking of. Both his front and rear bumper are wrapped not painted.

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Originally Posted by shaw_426hemi
So what is the adhesive process on this stuff and what do you use to cut it with? Any explaination would be great! Also do you guys think this stuff could be used exterior? If so imagine a factory 4 bar grill wrapped in balck fiber. Could look sick!
There a ton of YouTube videos showing the process, I cleaned the piece I was going to wrap with rubbing alcohol and used a heat gun to loosen up the vinyl and premote adhesion
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Originally Posted by ak2007r6
This is the truck I was thinking of. Both his front and rear bumper are wrapped not painted.

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I'm thinking I might have to do this come spring time. Might need to some interior stuff as well.
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Originally Posted by BlackSilverado
Looks awesome! How hard was it to do the center cosole where the cup holder and other piece is? Will the 2 lids come off?
It just pops out in one whole section. I then wrapped it in one whole piece. I trimmed out the lids and finished the console, then wrapped the lids last. I didn't have to remove any of the lids.


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