A New Shade of Cool: The Matte Black Vinyl Experience

A New Shade of Cool: The Matte Black Vinyl Experience

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Matte vs. Gloss: Choosing the Right Finish for Your Vinyl Wrap

Here’s a comparison of matte and gloss finishes for vinyl wraps, highlighting the benefits of each:

Matte Finish:

Benefits:

1. Subtle Elegance: Matte finishes offer a sophisticated and understated look.

2. Conceals Imperfections: Matte wraps are excellent at concealing small imperfections and scratches on the underlying surface.

3. Reduced Glare: Matte finishes do not reflect light in the same way glossy surfaces do.

4. Unique Aesthetic: Matte wraps stand out in a crowd.

5. Low Maintenance: Matte finishes tend to show fewer smudges, fingerprints, and water spots compared to glossy finishes.

Considerations:

1. Vulnerability to Stains: While matte wraps are generally less susceptible to showing smudges and water spots, certain types of stains (like oil or tree sap) can be more noticeable.

2. Less Intense Shine: Matte finishes lack the high-gloss shine associated with gloss finishes.

Gloss Finish:

Benefits:

1. Deep Shine and Luster: Glossy finishes provide a high-gloss, reflective surface that gives vehicles a polished and luxurious appearance.

2. Easy to Clean: Gloss finishes are typically easier to clean than matte finishes. They can be wiped down with a microfiber cloth, and any blemishes or marks are usually less noticeable.

3. Durability: Gloss wraps tend to be more resilient to stains and abrasions.

Considerations:

1. Shows Imperfections: Gloss finishes are less forgiving when it comes to concealing imperfections on the underlying surface. Scratches and dings may be more noticeable.

2. More Maintenance: Gloss finishes may require more frequent cleaning to maintain their shine and luster, especially in areas with high pollution or road grime.

Some may prefer the subtle elegance of matte, while others may gravitate towards the vibrant shine of gloss.

Protecting Your Investment: The Benefits of Matte Black Vinyl Wraps for Car Paint Protection

Matte black vinyl wraps serve as an effective protective layer for your car’s original paint in several ways:

1. Physical Barrier:
– Matte black vinyl acts as a shield against minor scratches, stone chips, and other abrasions that your car’s paint may encounter while driving.

2. UV Protection:
– Matte black vinyl wraps are designed to block harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun. This helps prevent the paint from fading or becoming discolored over time due to sun exposure.

3. Chemical Resistance:
– Vinyl wraps are resistant to many common automotive chemicals, such as gasoline, oil, and solvents.

4. Environmental Elements:
– Matte black vinyl provides a barrier against environmental factors like bird droppings, tree sap, and pollen.

5. Rust Prevention:
– By acting as a protective layer, matte black vinyl helps to prevent rust from forming on the car’s metal surfaces.

6. Easy Maintenance:
– Cleaning a matte black vinyl-wrapped car is typically easier and less demanding compared to caring for traditional paint. The smooth, non-porous surface of the vinyl makes it less susceptible to dirt and grime buildup.

7. Longevity of Original Paint:
– By preserving the factory paint underneath, a matte black vinyl wrap allows you to maintain the car’s resale value. When you decide to remove the vinyl wrap, the original paint will still be in excellent condition.

8. Reversibility:
– If you ever decide to change the look of your car or return it to its original state, the vinyl wrap can be removed without causing damage to the underlying paint.

9. Customization without Commitment:
– Matte black vinyl wraps provide a customizable appearance without the permanent commitment of a new paint job. You can change the color or design of your car easily and cost-effectively.

This added defense against various elements and hazards is one of the reasons why many car owners opt for vinyl wraps to safeguard their investment.

A New Shade of Cool: The Matte Black Vinyl Experience

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Customized Car Vinyl Wrap FAQ

The customized car vinyl wrap is made by high precision printing.

  1. Design the graphic
  2. Face film: high polymeric white pvc vinyl with 1440 DPI high precision epson printer
  3. Adhesive glue: high quality low tack initial adhesive glue, do not damage the car paint after remove
  4. Release paper: super density air release channels, easy to install on car
  5. Protection film: UV proof transfer lamination film on the face film to protective the graphic
  6. Outdoor durability: 2 years

Here we have a formula to calculate how much vinyl is needed for a car wrap:

*length of your vehicle x 3 (for the two sides & the top of the vehicle from front to back) + extra for bumpers and mistakes (1.5m to 3m depending on complexity of car and your skill level)

For example:
2019 BMW 530i M: (4,954mm x 3) + 3m = 14.86m + 3m = 17.86m
the closest roll size is a so purchase a 1.52m x 18m 5ft x 60ft roll.

♦ Small size cars can be fully wrapped with 15m to 17m of vinyl.
example of vehicle sizes:
Audi A3 & A4, BMW 2 & 3 series, Mitsubishi Lancer, Subaru Impreza, VW Golf & Beetle & Jetta, Hyundai Elantra, Nissan Sentra, Mercedes C-class

♦ Midsize cars can be fully wrapped with 18m to 20m of vinyl.
examples of vehicles:
Audi A5 & A6, BMW 5 series, Mercedes E-class, Hyundai Sonata, Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, VW Passat & CC, Nissan Maxima/Altima, Ford Mustang, Corvette, Chevrolet Camaro

♦ Full-size cars; small SUVs, small trucks & small vans need 20m to 23m of vinyl
examples of vehicle sizes:
Audi A7 & A8, BMW 7 series, Mercedes S class,

♦ Full-size SUVs, trucks & minivans 23m to 30m of vinyl
examples of vehicle sizes:
Mercedes GLS, Suburban, Escalade, Land Rover, Cayenne, Hummer, H2, Voyager, Town & Country, Sienna, Routan

 

Does NOT devalue the resell value of your car like a paint job does.
Vinyl car wraps protect your OEM paint and are 100% removable.
Warranties and/or lease agreements remain valid. Painting can void warranties, increase the cost of insurance, and is not even an option with a lease
Cost for a vinyl vehicle wrap is considerably less than a comparable paint job.
Vinyl car wraps wear as well as, or better than paint – when properly cared for. Think of it like a skin for your laptop or a silicon cover for your phone. The vinyl can take a beating protecting the vehicle’s paint underneath.
Vinyl car wraps come in any color, even custom, and can have a matte, semi-gloss, gloss, brushed steel, carbon fiber, metallic flake, matte metallic, chrome and even leather-like finishes.
Expensive, color-matching paint fees are unnecessary for scratches or accident vehicles; just re-wrap the section that needs repair.
It’s difficult to tell it’s not paint. Due to our paint wrapping technique, it literally looks like it was sprayed on.
Affordably customize parts of your car. You don’t have to wrap your entire car; just your hood, roof, mirrors, stripes, etc.
Matte-paint jobs can be brittle and chip easily while vinyls are more durable and harder to scratch. In the event that repairs are needed, the part that was damaged can be easily replaced, providing a perfect match.
Hides dings or scratches and “freshens” the look of your vehicle.

Applying specialist car wrapping film to your car body will not damage your paintwork. However If you already have stone chips, abrasions or rust patches on your paintwork it’s important to remember that when the vinyl is removed it may pull loose paint off with it.

Yes, if you have your design and idea, you can send the graphic files and car model, then we can printing the vinyl for you to wrap the car.

The customized car vinyl wrap material normal size is 1.52×18-23m for a full roll, based on your car size, the price is from US300-500 per roll.

Please send contact us to get more informations.

 

How to customized car vinyl wrap?

Car vinyl wrap training has become a fashion, making cars look cooler and full of mystery. This also attracts many car owners to follow suit to their car vinyl wraps. Car vinyl wraps require a lot of professional knowledge, which is not a small shop. Therefore, try to go to a professional car beauty shop to avoid the misunderstandings in the film, and understand the method of using the car after the film.I will teach you how to close the film immediately after the film is finished. Today I will show you how to take a film and take action.

1. Thoroughly clean the vehicle and carry out deep cleaning for oil stains and mud. The possible places are corners, bottom edges, handles, under the front and rear bumpers, including the dead corner of the upper guard plate of the hub. The air compressor blows away the dirt and sewage remaining in the gaps of the corners to avoid the situation that the film will not be stuck and will cause the edge to be raised later.

2. After the film is finished, all the corners should be baked with a hot air gun at high temperature. While baking, compact the shape by hand until the baking heat no longer starts. For the parts that are easy to be edged or the glue does not stick to the edge that has been edged, it can be appropriately reinforced with adhesion promoter or super energy glue.

3. After the color change is completed, it needs careful care in a short period of time, for example, the cleaning of the vehicle needs to be carried out after a week, and it cannot be directly sprayed at the seam between the film and the car paint with a high-pressure water gun; it cannot be pasted with items such as adhesives To the membrane surface, and can not use a brush, abrasive or sponge with abrasive to clean the membrane surface.

It needs to make sure if the car has been waxed, painted, crystal coated or not before doing the car wrapping job. It would hurt the car paint to some extent when removing the car wrap vinyl if the car has been repainted before. It is best to be the original car paint intact before doing the carwrapping job.When the car body have Scratches, damages, it needs to solve this problems first, because it is not good to car wrapping.

1. Need to wash and clean the car body before the car wrapping job. Using alcohol to wipe and clean it once again when attaching the vinyl for a certain part of car body.

2. It is better to wrap a complete vinyl to one part of car body,reduce splicing.Correct direction of closing vinyl edge is from outside to inside.

Car Vinyl Wrap Tips: How to complete a perfect film for your car?

3. Edge-closing distance: when there is a gap between theparts A and part B(like below pictures shows), when the A-side is closing, the optimal length of the edge of the remaining film is: the length of the edge of the part A to the edge of the part B.

Car Vinyl Wrap Tips: How to complete a perfect film for your car? Car Vinyl Wrap Tips: How to complete a perfect film for your car?

4. At the top part of the car, make sure all the vinyl at the edge are embedded in the black strip(Like the red arrow below).

Car Vinyl Wrap Tips: How to complete a perfect film for your car?

5. When the edge is attached with a curvature and no stress point, the direction of stretching should be stretched to the vertical direction of the gap (as shown in the picture below, the edge needs to be retracted in the direction A, but it should be stretched downwards, that is, the direction B, this stretching method can prevent the car vinyl from being intact when it is just wrapped, but the phenomenon of stretching and rebound occurs at high temperatures).

Car Vinyl Wrap Tips: How to complete a perfect film for your car?

6. Don’t stretch when wrapping the vinyl,but if it must need to stretch, don’t overstretch please. Both excessive stretching and heat gun temperature is too high would cause damage to the membrane surface and glue layer of the vinyl.(The heating temperature of the heat gun is recommended to be 80-120℃; but the recommended temperature for chrome mirror vinyl,chrome laser vinyl and mysterious chrome rainbow vinyl is below 80℃).

7. When sticking to a location with a large arc,first bake and soften the vinyl, avoid rebound phenomenon after excessive stretching and heating.

8. Use the heat gun to heat up the edge when the part is finished wrapping,to see if there has phenomenon of membrane rebound.(Especially the position of stretched edge)

9. After the whole vehicle is wrapped , please use the heat gun to reheat all the edge trimming positions, to make sure the edge of vinyldoes not rebound.

10. Precautions within three days after wrapped vinyl:avoid car washing; Do not use a water gun to spray the film at the seam,especially the edge part , don’t let the car get wet in the rain.

    1. Initial Low Viscosity Glue refers to the initial viscosity of the vinyl and the paint surface,back adhesive is pressure sensitive adhesive; due to the initial viscosity of the vinyl and the paint surface is not very high during the wrapping, it feels not very sticky when you peel off the bottom paper and stick it to the adhesive by hand.If the car body has been repaired by car paint before vinyl wrapping, use a high-viscosity vinyl on the painted surface, and then tear it immediately, you can find it is very laborious, and it is easy to tear the car paint together.The use of a low-viscosity car film will not easily bring up the paint surface even after repeated tearing, which is very convenient for car wrapping job.

    2. For cars that have just finished the initial low-viscosity car vinyl wrapping, it is better not to wash the car within 3 days, due to the low initial viscosity glue and the paint surface are not completely adhered, it can prevent the water gun from flushing the corners of vinyls.After three days, the viscosity gradually increases,it should let the car owner to come and check the corners of vinyls at that time.After wrapped the vinyl for a period of time, the glue surface has completely adhered to the paint surface. If the paint is dropping during the tearing process, it has no relationship with the quality of the film,but caused by the thickness of the paint surface;if paint dropping due to tearing during filming during the car wrapping process, then there is a certain relationship with the quality of the car wrap vinyl.

    3. The method to Judge vinyl glue: Take the vinyl samples or color swatch books, tear off the bottom paper, stick it to the paint or the hand, and then peel it off.If found that with very high adhesion, that one is high viscosity glue; the one with very low adhesionis Initial Low Viscosity Glue.

    4. Avoid sticking items with strong viscosity to the vinyl surface.

    5. Avoid using cleaning tools, which is easy to damage the surface of the car color change vinyl. Please don’t use brush abrasives, abrasives or sponges with abrasives to clean the vinyl surface.

    6. Please use soft damp cloth and clean water to wipe the surface of the vinyl. It must need to use neutral cleaning agentwhen using it to clean the car wrap vinyl.

    7. When the edge of vinyl is slightly uping , please processed in the car wrap store within 24 hours.

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