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Old Apr 1, 2011 | 02:15 AM
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Has anybody wrapped their waterfall or anything else in this stuff? Just curious as to how it looks.
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I've got my roof, the top of my spoiler, my steering wheel trim, the overhead light bezel, and a few small trim pieces done on my xd, I get a lot of compliments on it, I think 3m di noc vinyl is sharp looking on the right colored car. Here's some older pics I had taken right after the roof got wrapped.
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I've been wanting to wrap the waterfall for awhile now.

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That looks really good! Looks like it takes patience, too.
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I'm totally doing that to my waterfall soon.
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joyride, your whole CF setup is beautiful...no homo?
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lmao thanks. Pretty much everything in my car is wrapped. My black suede headliner matches well with all the parts including the oh ____ handles and dome lights wrapped in the CF. Took me a long time and lots of patience.


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Joyride, your car looks awesome man! I'm inspired for sure!
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Hrmmm. I wonder what something like that would cost to have done by a shop. I dont think I would do any other pieces other than the waterfall. I've been thinking about doing the roof as well. But I can't convince myself to do it because of the panaoramic roof.
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Originally Posted by black06tc
Hrmmm. I wonder what something like that would cost to have done by a shop. I dont think I would do any other pieces other than the waterfall. I've been thinking about doing the roof as well. But I can't convince myself to do it because of the panaoramic roof.
Its hella expensive i charge around 500+ for interior work.


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Joyride, your car looks awesome man! I'm inspired for sure!
Thanks man, check out my build thread for more pictures

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=183087, or my blog http://project-blckbyrd.tumblr.com/
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Originally Posted by Joyride
Its hella expensive i charge around 500+ for interior work.




Thanks man, check out my build thread for more pictures

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=183087, or my blog http://project-blckbyrd.tumblr.com/
Haha very funny. No way in hell that costs $500 to do.
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Actually that's not bad considering labor and material. Plus I think he's talking about doing the entire interior, not just the waterfall
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yeah i mean the vinyl itself is a bit pricey so your looking at easily 100-200 for the vinyl alone and prob 6 hours or more in labor to wrap everything
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Originally Posted by black06tc
Hrmmm. I wonder what something like that would cost to have done by a shop. I dont think I would do any other pieces other than the waterfall. I've been thinking about doing the roof as well. But I can't convince myself to do it because of the panaoramic roof.
I wouldn't wrap a tc roof, being all glass, tint looks good on all that glass. My xd on the other hand looks great with it and it goes well with silver. As for prices, the vinyl runs around 30$ for a 1x4' piece, so not cheap for large parts.

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I found gold Di-Noc and wondered how it would look. I bet it would look pretty good but too nervous to try it.
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I've thought about wrapping a hood... Would probably look ricey though
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Originally Posted by black06tc
Haha very funny. No way in hell that costs $500 to do.
In parts no, in labor it does. Full interiors take about 2 entire days to do. So yeah the price is because of labor. And people have paid the quota for it.


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I've thought about wrapping a hood... Would probably look ricey though

Dont do it. It looks really bad on hoods and hatches. Make you look like a spanish ricer.
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In parts no, in labor it does. Full interiors take about 2 entire days to do. So yeah the price is because of labor. And people have paid the quota for it.





Dont do it. It looks really bad on hoods and hatches. Make you look like a spanish ricer.
Yea but I'm not talking about doing the whole interior just like the steering wheel trim waterfall and the trim around the shifter.



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