3M Di-noc Carbon effect Vinyl............ Options

[manphibian]

Anybody used some of this stuff?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/3M-Di-NOC-d...sQ5fAccessories

it's actually really nice

Wrapped a couple things today:




Plenty of applications for this, inside and out. Looks pretty convincing as a satin finish carbon, for a fraction of the price and easy to use


Lets see what you can do with it

[playr158]

[manphibian]

Quite good stuff isn't it

My fingers hurt from doing the rings though

[SwissFerdi]

Hmm...CF license bezel on the cheap. Soooooo appealing. Might have to order this stuff.

I could do some interior parts as well. Outside mirrors?

[96stgreendemon]

ha ha i saw this and had to have it lol, i ordered 2

[manphibian]

cool, get some pics up when you've wrapped stuff I'm looking around my house all the time for things that should be carbonized

[Aussie_Celica]

im tempted to get some and do my dash and that

[96stgreendemon]

im tempted to get some and do my dash and that

ha ha that would look sick

[wolfie308]

Hey Luke...

Would never have considered this, but having seen the pics, I think this would work a treat if used discreetly on part of the dash/centre console of my 944, as they are both black with the rest of the interior cream leather

[rave2n]

That roof looks sick.

Very tempting to get some of this, and do the radio trim and such. I was going to fab some aluminum pieces. This just looks more cost effective, and not to mention good looking.

[OOBE]

That looks sweet lemonade, and not poser at all. I would wrap all my dash parts in it.

[manphibian]

Hey Luke...

Would never have considered this, but having seen the pics, I think this would work a treat if used discreetly on part of the dash/centre console of my 944, as they are both black with the rest of the interior cream leather

It looks good, go for it

and even if you don't like it, it comes off clean

This was the cheapest UK place when i got mine:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWNX:IT

[joehernandez]

looks great,,,
however i was thinking,,, if i wrap my entire car with that stuff....
is it water resistant or how?
how can you remove it?

[manphibian]

looks great,,,
however i was thinking,,, if i wrap my entire car with that stuff....
is it water resistant or how?
how can you remove it?

It's just vinyl. Like any other vinyl used to wrap cars... It is water resistant, and pulls off pretty cleanly.

Will be expensive to wrap a whole car tho.....

[zfjohnson07]

might be interesting tho if you wrapped the whole car

[EKAn]

Anybody used some of this stuff?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/3M-Di-NOC-d...sQ5fAccessories

it's actually really nice

Wrapped a couple things today:




Plenty of applications for this, inside and out. Looks pretty convincing as a satin finish carbon, for a fraction of the price and easy to use


Lets see what you can do with it

How do you get it to go around corners like that? do you have to heat it up or does it just stretch by itself if you pull it?

[sincerelyseb]

is this stuff easy to mold around curves?





i shouldve refreshed before posting

This post has been edited by sincerelyseb: Feb 19, 2010 - 2:37 PM

[zfjohnson07]

yeah how hard is it i was thinking about maybe doing my tweeter covers for starters and then going to armrests n such

[manphibian]

You heat it up with a hairdryer.

It's pretty easy to do things with gentle curves, most dash trim would be easy, armrests and such should be no problem.

The Audi rings were very difficult!!!!

[b1gr3d]

This stuff is tits

[EKAn]

yeah it sure looks difficult, it came out good and the patter doesn't look all distorted which is good

[GriffGirl]

I have a roll of black cf-look vinyl, I haven't been able to decide what to do with it. Like, a bolt of it that you get from a fabric store. In fact, I bet it's the exact same stuff shown here, but without the adhesive back. This makes me think that I need some high grade spray adhesive for it, and I need to start going to town.

[zfjohnson07]

so lets say that im going to do my armrest, i just put it on there and cut it to make it look good, or do i need like a type of glue or something to hold it down on the bottom?

[manphibian]

it's self adhesive.


Just buy it and have a go

[joehernandez]

looks great,,,
however i was thinking,,, if i wrap my entire car with that stuff....
is it water resistant or how?
how can you remove it?

It's just vinyl. Like any other vinyl used to wrap cars... It is water resistant, and pulls off pretty cleanly.

Will be expensive to wrap a whole car tho.....

expenssive....
around how much do you think?

[manphibian]

Over here it's about £1200 ($1800) to have a car wrapped, dunno how much over there.... probably less. google it?

Dan will know....

[Aussie_Celica]

well just ordered some to do my shifter surounds and what not just hope i got enough will get pics up when i get it done

[Decalsondemand]

that stuff isnt that hard to work with at all i can get it in a 15 in. x 10 yard roll but runs around 90.00

[RoyO]

Retail price of a square metre Carbon-look car wrapping vinyl is around 100USD over here.. Not cheap to wrap your whole car!

[yarik83]

I have thought of car wraps before. average life expectancy is 5+ years and costs about 2000 usd.

There are some fully wrapped cars out there and they look very very good.



Challenge is not so much with how much it costs but how much of the car should you wrap. There are replacements for the hood/trunk from companies like VIS Racing that weigh just a couple of pounds each but they also cost a hefty sum. Wrapping the car in full will cost twice what hood/trunk costs but it would also wrap entire car.

From my previous research you can buy steel looking CF wrap, blue looking CF wrap, Red, Yellow and pretty much any other color for that matter. Its just that some of them look rather crappy and some look awesometastic.

Considering that it usually takes a few hours to put this thing on.. car can be dropped off and picked up in same or next day. They usually shrink wrap those suckers. If you pick the right wrap... some are very durable.

Many fleet vehicles and buses have full wraps on them.

In some ways this costs cheaper then re-painting but it all boils down to what other members will think about it when you present it here on forums. Some may hate it, some may love it. I am right on the border because it is cheap and I do have a shop here that can do it but I am also with evo/gt4/celica debate so im just postponing it for time being.

[wolfie308]

Does need a bit of practice, but here's my first piece.......





I see this stuff as much for internal trim parts as external panels or whole cars. A point that I don't think has been mentioned is this embossed pattern may not be abrasion resistant enough for body panels - could be more prone to scuffing than paint?

Try running your nail with some pressure across a scrap piece and you'll see what I mean.

[manphibian]

Looking good mate No stopping you now

[96stgreendemon]

i got mine today but i wrapped a light switch ha ah, wanted to see how it worked before it went onto the car

[cjh4l22]

i'm thinking about buying this to do some less obvious interior parts. specifically... ceiling, visors and rear view
and before someone points out the obvious. yes of course i'll be stripping the visors and ceiling first.

[96stgreendemon]

i just did my shift trim tonight!!! it looks amazing

[Spider77]

This stuff looks really a lot like that fabric I had on an older post. But with an adhesive backing.
Really want to see the shift trim (was thinking about doing mine), for some reason i really like the dry carbon look (carbon leather...etc..) and I'd also be interested to see how doing the visors and headliner turn out.

[wolfie308]

As further inspiration, here's the centre and left side of my dash done......More pics of what you've done required

[manphibian]

Wow! That looks great Must have take a while to cut all that out?!?!

looks OEM

[Driveby]

Richard that looks really good, wonder what my roof skin would look like.......

[EKAn]

i just did my shift trim tonight!!! it looks amazing

got any pics?

[96stgreendemon]

soon as i find the camera

[Aussie_Celica]

just got mine today so happy with it so far done my shift surround next is the radio surround wanted to do so much more but dont think i ordered enough so looks like ill be hitting them up for some more love it




one in the car sorry for the lighting



This post has been edited by Aussie_Celica: Mar 2, 2010 - 1:50 AM

[manphibian]

nice job

[Aussie_Celica]

heres a lil more i got done still need to do the power window switches gauge surrounds and maybe vents

[robby]

GREAT JOB

[SwissFerdi]

I was hoping this wouldn't become ridiculously overdone... That was my plan. Probably not the shifter surround, but definitely the radio and two vent bezels.

[Aussie_Celica]

must say it looks better in person i have just enough left to do either the 2 vents or the power window switches think im gonna go with the vents

[robby]

these 3M Di-noc Carbon sticker ,I buy from Vincent_doggy ( cheaper price than e-bay)

[EKAn]

just got mine today so happy with it so far done my shift surround next is the radio surround wanted to do so much more but dont think i ordered enough so looks like ill be hitting them up for some more love it

Was this hard to do? because of all the corners and stuff?

[Aussie_Celica]

yeah just a lil the part where it dips in to the leather takes some heating and stretching and some strongish glue coz the stuff on the back wont hold it

ive since had to glue some other parts of the radio surround like where it goes into the vents and that

[toyocelic]

i would like to do the top of my car,,,i have minor hail damage, i was wondering if i should put the wrap on if it will stick,>?? or should i put something there but what??

This post has been edited by toyocelic: Mar 8, 2010 - 1:21 AM

[wolfie308]

yeah just a lil the part where it dips in to the leather takes some heating and stretching and some strongish glue coz the stuff on the back wont hold it

ive since had to glue some other parts of the radio surround like where it goes into the vents and that

Cracking job you've done there mate - not sure if the material is up to being concave formed enough without cutting and glueing, but I managed it on my 944 which is a slighly easier profile.....





I have a feeling it might have a tendency for parts which have been highly stretched to shrink in hot conditions

[Aussie_Celica]

yeah just a lil the part where it dips in to the leather takes some heating and stretching and some strongish glue coz the stuff on the back wont hold it

ive since had to glue some other parts of the radio surround like where it goes into the vents and that

Cracking job you've done there mate - not sure if the material is up to being concave formed enough without cutting and glueing, but I managed it on my 944 which is a slighly easier profile.....

I have a feeling it might have a tendency for parts which have been highly stretched to shrink in hot conditions

yeah spot on mate coz my car is parked outside at work first hot day it shrank back up so some contact adhesive later and dont have that problem any more i have plans to do some more ive done the vents and might do the cup holder next just for a lil touch lol

[manphibian]

Wrapped my Fuel flap today

Was not easy, but So happy with the result 8)

Progress shots:





Finished article:

[Culpable04]

did you use the 3m glue ( sold separately ) I did a few parts as a test for my interior and with the heat the vinyl started to go back to its original shape, so I was told I need the 3m glue to prevent this from happeing, I'm wondering if it'll be the same for the outside of a car.

[manphibian]

nah, i'ts ok, it's never hot here

[Driveby]

Looks great Luke, adds a nice touch

[playr158]

looking great Luke.

[SwissFerdi]

Fawk that's awesome! I love this stuff. I plan on purchasing a roll soon and doing a few things.

[fenderdave]

Fawk that's awesome! I love this stuff. I plan on purchasing a roll soon and doing a few things.

I found a UK distributor for the 3m stuff a while back was called william smith at the time they had it on an introductory price and would also send you out a free sample (its not very big, about 10cm x 15cm but it would give you an idea of the quality).

"Order any length; from 1 metre to a full 50m roll x 1220mm wide, for only £29.99 per metre"
http://www.williamsmith.co.uk/index.cfm?fu...&NewsID=200

[SwissFerdi]

I found a UK distributor for the 3m stuff a while back was called william smith at the time they had it on an introductory price and would also send you out a free sample (its not very big, about 10cm x 15cm but it would give you an idea of the quality).

"Order any length; from 1 metre to a full 50m roll x 1220mm wide, for only £29.99 per metre"
http://www.williamsmith.co.uk/index.cfm?fu...&NewsID=200

Get a group buy going.

[nammer]

all this is really good...now somebody needs to wrap their rims haha

[yarik83]

There are many online vendors offering this thing and at reasonable prices. I have been in contact with decalfx.com on more than one occasion and they offer cf stuff in different colors too. Aside from that they are full of nifty things like headlight tint et cetera.

[IBTINTN]

I put some on my hood a couple of months ago. Also wraped a friends dash and centre console out of his skyline looks really good. A quick note this material has a memory so if you stretch it make sure you heat it up to 75c and this will make it loose its memory. Other wise it might start to peel up. You guys pay too much I get it for $45 a yard. Just got another 15 yard roll cant wait for more.



This post has been edited by IBTINTN: May 17, 2010 - 12:38 AM

[Hanyo]

so where is the best place to get this stuff?

[hatchy_gt-s]

I luv this stuff!!!
Plan on doing all my int.