You came a long way dude. I watched your earlier videos where you used to wrap cars outside on your front driveway and now your here wrapping expensive whips in an industrial garage. Good work my dude.
I was researching on how to wrap cars to add to my tee shirt business and I came across this dude I subscribed and I’ve been hooked this guy is dope,keep up the good work 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I did a chrome delete on my grill trim, and on all my window trims. Looks professionally done too! Definitely didn’t take me a longer than a hour and a half though. Could’ve been faster but it’s my first time doing it. I personally think it’s not worth paying over $100 or $200 or even way way way more! to get it done at a vinyl/Tint shop. DIY! People! Save you money and you learned something new.
@@Dreamingbigent if you still wanna do it and don't care about some seam lines, use blackout tape. Buy multiple rolls tho cuz 2 whole rolls weren't enough for the windows on my 2017 TLX. Looks pretty damn good tho
Thankyou thankyou thankyou bro. Ive been watching alot of your videos, to learn better techniques, and i love your work. Ive only did wraps as a hobby but the past few months,ive learned hell of alot more tricks. And im now getting paid for my work, and setting up my own work station. Thanks for your vids,and tutorials
I’m about to do my b7 rs4 saloon as the aluminium trims have gone milky and there’s no way of cleaning it off. The trims are a huge job to remove and replace so I figured I will wrap them. Colour wise I’m doing it in Matt silver to keep the car standard looking as mirrors, radiator grill and wheels are all Matt silver. Thanks for posting such a helpful guide. Hopefully mine will look as neat as the job you’ve done on the Mercedes. Cheers
As a beginner, I found that it's worth it to cut the film following the general curve of the trim to eliminate relief cuts and alleviate the tension from stretching a straight piece.
You da man! Keep up the awesome work! Also, there may be a lot of roof wrap videos already but I think many of us would agree that a roof wrap video from you especially around an antenna/ shark fin would be awesome. Your videos are top notch
Trim seems so easy but I found out it is realllly tricky. I redid mine 3 times cuz your right any little movement with blade you have chrome showing. Even a tiny sliver of chrome stands out like BOOM! Definitely a pro knocking these out first go round and look flawless like usual.
Love it! "Why do all the easy stuff and then get to the tough stuff and f--make a mistake" haha I appreciate your professional AND your day-to-day speech, man! heehee! Great video! Thanks!
Love watching your channel and it gave me the confidence to do the trim delete myself! However, after doing the trim delete in gloss black Avery film I find that the areas that tuck under the trim or where you would stretch it at the ends to get a clean finish eventually peel back a little and I'm finding myself going over tucking it under before i go for a drive. I prep'd the surface and cleaned it with prepsol and starting to think that because I applied it when it was only 10 deg. Celsius the adhesive has not taken to the aluminium trim....or maybe it the design of the trim? For reference it's an Audi A6 avant.
Looks great/ I took my Subaru to a shop today in Cincy, all I have is the bottom window trim on chrome the rest is already black. I was thinking they’d say about 150-200, they said 550-700$!!😱 Prob take a pro about 30-40 mins.. needless to say I’m going to try this myself.
Awesome I need to do that on my car, old one is faded and cracking off, plus I'm about to repaint and clear coat it so this would set it off nicely. Thanks so much for this vid and where I can find this stuff, I was wondering how I was going to cover my chrome trim. Nice job !
DellGaming TV I used chinese wrap, bought it in AliExpress. Looks good, let’s see how long it lasts. I wrapped the grill and all the chrome parts about 2 months ago and it looks awesome!
I have an Audi s5. Just took a look. I see the rubber seal on the top chrome is on top and bottom. So just gotta get blade in between rubber and trim, right. Looks like you have to wedge your blade in between the seal, because it’s pretty tight on the top seal. Also, On bottom trim, little easier. There’s no rubber seal on the bottom part of the bottom chrome trim. Bonus, the mirror is not in the way, it’s actually about 6 inches away from the corner of where most mirrors are, there actually a black plastic plate on that little corner, so I can do that part without removing mirror. Only fear is cutting the seal by mistake. But I’m might try it if I can’t find someone to do this job under $125. It it wasn’t such a nice car, I would just go for it, without being nervous lol
Cheers bud a good informative video, 👍 I have done a car previously which looked good but knew it could be better so thanks 🙏 for the tutorial, 🤔interesting to see very little use of the heat gun, which I will definitely take note of this time round 😀👍
Hey Christian. Huge fan. I have a question. Does most gloss wrap have an orange peel effect? I bought black rose from 3m and in my opinion, it looks like garbage. The orange peel is so significant I could probably get better results with a rattle can. Thanks for your time. Anyone else have input on this?
Nothing like a Red car or anything for that matter, wish the camera was closer so could see the detailed stuff, I have learned a lot watching your videos. Ty
I want to be as good as you. nice & clean, well done. I did this on my Toyota Rav 4 and I realize it is so difficult to find the proper link to cut. And I end up cutting my rubber. T T
Painted quite a bit of trims that were wrapped...never pretty once I've taken the time trim off. Even if your extremely precise cutting it, Always a cleaner job and lasts when parts are removed so theres no peeling up. Good job though 👌
Nah use Night shades aerosol can and the trick is to use krylon clear coat afterwards..did it on my charger and u can make it as light or dark as u want too ez peezy
How well does this wrap hold up to hot weather? We live in a desert like climate and I'm worried that it will peel. And if it starts to peel can it be removed without damaging the chrome if it has been exposed to 100°+ heat?
I'm fixing my car up, and wanting to do this to my 2008 Honda Accord. Would you suggest doing this before or after I send it to the body shop to get repainted?
Hey there Buddy, I little question here, my Audi has rubber window trim, hence it's a boring rubber color and I'm looking for that clean Gloss finish. I was wondering, is it possible to wrap window rubber trim? by prepping the surface properly and all that. Thanks bud!
I am looking to delete chrome bumpers on my truck, however it has a dent on the front side how would i tackle that area ? Love your channel man! Your awesome and great mindset and attitude! Keep it up
Any chance you can tell me which line of Avery you prefer for this ? The 500, 700 or 800 series ? I'm guessing either the 500 or 700 series since you said you prefer it thin ? Or do you use the cast series ?
I asked here in Finland how much it would cost to tape the chrome window trim on the sides (not the windscreen trim) and the rear arch. The price estimate was around 300e. I think that seems pretty silly?
Have you had to wrap any Honda CRV exterior B pillars from fading? They call it sash tape. I was looking for a video on b pilllar removal and found your vid on lower door seals. The vids are great. I hope you can find a pov camera that you can comfortably wear.i want to see your knife up close. Thanks!
Hi Chris,I have a 2018 civic hatch (white). What would you recommend if I wanted to "white out" the civic badge on the rear? I see lots of people black them out, but haven't seen any "white out".Thanks
ducebigalow hey, I'm not Chris, but I would recommend to try plasti dip on the emblems. It's an easy job and with the proper masking and spraying technique will turn out good. When applied properly will last for quite some time. But all white sounds like a cool idea! Hope this helps a little!
it "looks" easy, but im sure it is not, but im gonna try and do it. I was wondering about the tape though. The Vvivid stuff doesn't have great reviews on Amazon. If that's what you use i would use it no problem. Do you use the vvivid? Also side question, what do you think of using matte black. I have a black car i wanna black out.
Well done mate, I am going to order all of stuff and try with what I learned from your videos, I am very appreciate that. Just a question, why do we need the marking tape around?
nice work. on a charcoal gray 2018 yukon denali, im thinking of getting a slightly lighter shade of gray than the body color to delete all the chrome... but will it be hard to match that lighter gray color for the large chrome grille and emblems/badges? what would your shop use for the denali grille?plastidip paint?or can a heavily grated grille be wrapped too?
Hi Christian, can you give me some advice on how to wrap a front bumper of a Pontiac Fiero GT 87. Do you have wrapping videos in old cars? Like Camaro's, Firebird's, Trans Am's etc. I am a big fan from Baja California, México.
Great videos man. Keep it up, watching your videos have made me want to start my own small wrap business. On this CLA you mentioned doing a roof wrap as well. I am going to do a roof wrap on my girlfriends CLA this weekend. Mind if I ask how you got the black antenna cover off the roof?
Can you show a video of a trim delete on a harder car? My 17 fusion has a very tight rubber lip right up against the chrome and a wide curved piece that i'm kinda lost on.
Watching all your vids! Looking to wrap the black trim on my Subie in black carbon fiber. Still kinda cool in New England, will probably try it in my home garage/driveway but wanted to know what u consider the lowest temperature to wrap in. Seems like 70s but not sure if you ever wrapped in cooler temps.
Ive been watching a lot of your videos lately to learn more about how to wrap. I love your videos and the information you provide for people, but I have one complaint; you don't do enough close ups of what's actually going on when doing some of the finer detailed stuff.
You're right, these are older videos that I was doing more for fun. I have up close and detailed videos on my website www.ckwraps.com and everything is filmed in 4k. There are over 400 videos on the website with categorized sections like beginner 101, bumpers, advanced, mirrors etc. There's also an open discussion forum where members ask me questions which I answer every morning.
@@CKWraps I'll definitely check that out. You have greatly inspired me to start my own business doing this. Im going to do a full stripe today and I am ordering the material for a full wrap on my Audi to start my portfolio.
Question please, you say you use Avery but the Amazon link goes to Vivid Carbon Fiber wrap, can you be more specific on the thickness of the film please, thanks
Want to do this on a new Jeep Compass, too much chrome on those cars Want to wrap the front bumper chrome, window chrome, back window chrome Never done it before, advice?
Is that referred as a seal between the mirror and the window ? I had took off my whole seal just to tuck better but I can get the seal that goes in between my window and mirror to go back down the rail
I tried this and it keeps wanting to pull back on the ends. It's a 2008 Audi Rs6 and the ends don't have much surface area. It's like the vinyl isnt quite as sticky as it needs to be. Admittedly it's cheap ebay vinyl as I just wanted to give it a go. Tried post heating too but it still seems to lift after a day or so on the ends. Is there a particular vinyl that has a very strong adhesive?
I have a vinyl wrapped car already, want to add the chrome black out. what kind of tape are you using to protect the car while working? that looks like yellow painters tape? will that hurt the vinyl wrap?
I've personally never used edges Sealer in my life and that's coming from someone who had no help when it came to learning how to wrap. In my opinion it isn't needed. Those who have experience but still use it should work on their skills as opposed to relying on a product.
