As a professional vinly wrapper and ppf installer, I can say this is such a good video I might have to start showing my customers this. You hit on pretty much all of the FAQs and key talking points I go over. Instead of wax for vinyl(especiallymatte and satin), we use 303 to keep up on it. I tell my customers that the best reason to do a wrap is because you want a something that is a crazy color, pattern, or finish that is hard to paint. Otherwise, just be patient with picking out a car in the color that you actually want.
Also, Wraps used on cars can also be applied to furniture, so I'd suggest getting some cheap chairs of goodwill or just some old furniture you don't like the appearance in your place, and wrap it for practice , before doing your car.
So my takeaway from this video is... If I was a bit keen on wraps before, now I am all against Considering it being prone to damaging and peeling off, I'd rather have my car stripped to bare unibody and painted for 3x the price, and then be happy for 30 years without worries instead of 3 years with everyday stress about the wrap condition
It's fascinating to me how in the US, and some other places you can actually change your cars colour relatively easily, with very minor hastle... In my country I basically have to get whole new papers, re-register the car and get a full technical just to change colour of my vehicle.
I’m not even new to cars. I’m a master level tech at Ford and this video was still excellent to help me understand wraps more. I never really cared for them until recent months as I learned how far they’ve come. Good work man
Bladed I've been watching heaps of your videos lately and I'm really enjoying them. Thanks for not completely ignoring Holden. Most youtubers either ignore it or abscessed with Utes and its a bit of a pain. Love your vids keep up the great work
wow i’ve been wanting to get a wrap for years… this video was very informative, mentioning stuff those car wrap blogs don’t mention, now i think i’d rather just pay the money to get an actual paint job. thanks for the video. i would probably wrap a weekend garage parked car, but for my daily driver, naurrrr.
Great takeaway at the end, and it can also be applied to most car changes and mods: the cheapest you go the more time and effort you have to put into it yourself
1- 2 videos in a week? NOICE. 2- Now i get that in Monterrey (Mexico) getting a well designed wrap will be a pain in the ass. Monterrey is well known for having weird weather characteristics, sometimes is just unpredictable, so wrapped cars surely have a hard life.
Something I don't think you really mention is the fact that wraps don't need a paint booth. All you really need is a clean garage and you're good to go. Because of this, they are much easier for the DIYer to get into, which I think is useful n00b knowledge. You can do a whole car, but the real advantage is the repair. After my custom painted (color shift) Porsche 986 took a rock to the door, I realized there was no simple fix. It would be impossible to blend and match the custom paint, the whole car would have to be repainted. Paint had only been on for less than a year. This is the thing that sold me on wraps. If I have the same problem with wrap, I can just order another section of the same wrap and redo only that panel. My car is now wrapped in Avery Dennison Gloss Roaring Thunder. I didn't do the best job; mostly because my garage is filthy, but it's as good or better than the custom paint job. Best part is I did it myself.
I did an internship at a mechanic shop that works on racecars, and turns out the vast majority of racecars use wraps instead of just paint. Wraps are perfect for racecars because they get rock chips like crazy and they crash and get banged up more often than you think, and its much cheaper and easier to just put a patch of vinyl on a scratch than to paint over it. They don't look great up close with the patch seams, but really the only people getting that close are the crew and the drivers.
4:29, white/light grey color cars fall into the same cathegory as what you mentioned previously. They will creep out some gaps around the foil. 7:24 that might be from the 2 pieces touching eachother and moving slightly, creating friction.
Great vid, gonna teach myself how to wrap & the info provided is super useful to pass along to customers coming to my shop who want some sort of wrap whether it’s for color or protective film. Good looks 💪🏻
Please note that everything is based on how well the wrap was installed. Someone who is good at wrapping can use the really cheap stuff and have it last for a very long time. That being said the quality of the vinyl itself is very important especially because most people are not pros. As a side note I wrapped my car by my self for the first time over a year ago with the cheapest stuff on the market (cheetah wrap vinyl. $400 for a roll of 60ft). So far the wrap has held up for the most part. It certainly has pealing up in some areas but that is because of instal error such as not cleaning the part I’m wrapping. However I want to say that I did a matte purple and I have washed it many times and I love it because it’s easier for me to wash. I just use a wash mit and have never pealed it or damaged it and I don’t have any micro scratches. Note I live in Utah being somewhere else will have different effects. Also my car is outside 100% of the time and has been taken on multiple road trips. Honestly I did vinyl because my paint was crap and I didn’t want to pay for a paint job and vinyl is way less maintenance
For me wrap is only for new cars as to not damage the paint. Paint is for cars that had their years. If a wrap job cost more then a paint job then just stick with paint, it'll come out better and won't peal overtime. Now if you are looking for a color for a project car and just don't like the look of your car while it's still being worked on or just sitting then wrap is a good option while you still think about what color you want. For me I had bought a 240sx and decided to wrap it pearl white myself till I decide what color I'll be painting it.
Another reason to get a wrap could be if you plan on changing the colour of your car but don’t know how it will grow on you and want a “trial period” of that colour
The original thumbnail was an Audi... BTW love your car. Can't wait for the finished product. And please take it to the track. You need to break the image of ricers and show even ricers can love performance.
The orange peel is on the vinyl itself if u look at the roll. I’ve sanded panels up to 3000 cross sanding and still had orange peel when vinyl applied .
You had me in the first half ngl😂but the end helped cuz I will probably change my mind on it after 2 or 3 years and I live in Florida so thanks for the video
So all and all a regular paint job seem so much better. Sure, the base price for a wrap may be half of a paint job, but so is the lifespan of it (according to my 30 sek googling adventure). Plus you also have the added cost of an extra protective layer (ceramic or PPF). Not to mention all the precautions and much higher risk than just a normal high quality paint job.
I feel funny watching this series whilst not having a driver license yet (cuz I fcked up the theoretical tests by a few points twice already) and definitely no car yet. I'll forget everything said by the time I get a car.
Ever since I got my ride, I wanted to paint it in my color (the color I could get it in) and my friends are all like "just wrap it!" After watching this, I was right and I'm gonna just paint it. I'm a "Northerner" but as it stands, it sits in the 100°+ sun to the burried in snow. And before that, the pain damage from rock chips as well as not being the best at washing it, it is the only way. The Z however.......
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Can’t wait for your car bro ❤️
Same man. The lucina project is so appealing.
No nsx tho 😢
@Makeno1021 I loved the '79 El Camino as a kid it was my favourite ute.
Can we expect a date when lucina comes im so very excited
can't wait for his miata
This video is perfect, with wraps becoming so prevalent, yet it’s hard to find all the info you want on them
You could say it nicely *wraps* up the topic
@@kid_withabike7920 👏well played
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@@natebit7167 do rdddwssssssssssss
I needed this video last year
RIP
Oof
@@BladedAngel You know that your about section of the channel needs some rewording because you now have a TikTok account?
@@AlbertoArellano-Escalante disregard this comment I'm dumb
I blame the idiots that only came here for the list videos
As a professional vinly wrapper and ppf installer, I can say this is such a good video I might have to start showing my customers this. You hit on pretty much all of the FAQs and key talking points I go over.
Instead of wax for vinyl(especiallymatte and satin), we use 303 to keep up on it.
I tell my customers that the best reason to do a wrap is because you want a something that is a crazy color, pattern, or finish that is hard to paint. Otherwise, just be patient with picking out a car in the color that you actually want.
Man i dunno what is more important sleeping or bladed's video. It’s 3:50 at morning here.
Definetly Bladed.
Sleep is temporary, love for cars is eternal
0:30 "Haha $35 anime decals" lol
I love the n00bs guide series.
Yes
We all Love it
Why not „noob“?
@@Nexipr because n00b is the real way to spell it. "Newb" or "noob" are not the real way. I assume you're not a gamer.
@@Ren_184 jesus christ i hope youre not this corny still
Does bladed know that everyone starts doing a happy dance in there head when he uploads 🤔
Exept for the nerds that hate corvette
Probably
I have a full on dance party 🎉
yall r weird.
@@krishnadhaneep2296 yessir 🔥
It's nice that there's creative people in the car community who actually create their own ideas for their wraps
Also, Wraps used on cars can also be applied to furniture, so I'd suggest getting some cheap chairs of goodwill or just some old furniture you don't like the appearance in your place, and wrap it for practice , before doing your car.
I remember i used to wrap my toy cars as a child with matte black vinyl wrap
Sounds like an awesome way to practice finesse in the tiny details.
definitely do more noob guides bc i’ve been into cars for 5 years and am still a noob to all this
7:26 ‘I tugged one off in the heat’ lmao 😂
I didn't know I needed a noob's guide on wraps until I did. Thanks Bladed.
Ok tbh yellow and blue color scheme like in the picture he showed us when the wrap in incomplete looks really cool
So my takeaway from this video is... If I was a bit keen on wraps before, now I am all against
Considering it being prone to damaging and peeling off, I'd rather have my car stripped to bare unibody and painted for 3x the price, and then be happy for 30 years without worries instead of 3 years with everyday stress about the wrap condition
FH4 “metallic” sparkly wrap has to be my favorite kind of wrap.
I use it on like 80% of my cars in the game.
It's fascinating to me how in the US, and some other places you can actually change your cars colour relatively easily, with very minor hastle... In my country I basically have to get whole new papers, re-register the car and get a full technical just to change colour of my vehicle.
Rare EU cringe
@@jjbarajas5341 sadly
I’m not even new to cars. I’m a master level tech at Ford and this video was still excellent to help me understand wraps more. I never really cared for them until recent months as I learned how far they’ve come. Good work man
It’s 1 in the night but bladed is on let’s gooooo
@@nicholasrossi739 non existent sleep schedule
Like 1pm? That’s kind of normal to be up at that time.
@@nicholasrossi739 oh ok
@@nicholasrossi739 dog he jus tryna enjoy the vid
@@nicholasrossi739 alright then for all you Americans 1 in the morning
Btw good morning 😃
Noob's guide videos were quite helpful actually. So thanks a lot!
Thank you! Im a amatuer car enthusiast with a 76 5.0 Chevy Nova and i love your vids!
Glad you seem to be uploading more frequently
I can't believe I learned a lot about car wraps without mind overload. Subscribed
Bladed I've been watching heaps of your videos lately and I'm really enjoying them. Thanks for not completely ignoring Holden. Most youtubers either ignore it or abscessed with Utes and its a bit of a pain. Love your vids keep up the great work
Aaaaaaa thank you for making more
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@@BladedAngel lol
yo you’ve grown so much since summer 2017 when i first subbed. i’m so hype for you lmao
Wraps are cool and can give a build that extra hint of style, that's why I love em.
Can’t wait to see your car finished, also, you put a lot of German cars in there...
Does that mean you’ll get a German car lol?
wow i’ve been wanting to get a wrap for years… this video was very informative, mentioning stuff those car wrap blogs don’t mention, now i think i’d rather just pay the money to get an actual paint job. thanks for the video. i would probably wrap a weekend garage parked car, but for my daily driver, naurrrr.
as someone who wants to go into the field of wrapping and opening my own wrap shop, this vid is amazing
Dude I'm a big fan you helped my dad not to get a messed of car in the engine and thanks for the need for speed stuff ty
Thank you, because yesterday i couldnt differ what is a super and a turbo charger, but then i watched all of the noob guides, so thank you
so glad this series is back!
Great takeaway at the end, and it can also be applied to most car changes and mods: the cheapest you go the more time and effort you have to put into it yourself
Good luck on the weebvette! Oh yeah also you should make ab itashi miata😏
1- 2 videos in a week? NOICE.
2- Now i get that in Monterrey (Mexico) getting a well designed wrap will be a pain in the ass. Monterrey is well known for having weird weather characteristics, sometimes is just unpredictable, so wrapped cars surely have a hard life.
That would explain why I don’t see many wrapped cars here in Florida for the maintenance part
Re Zero wrap on S2000 looks cool
I would never wrap my car because I live in Florida I would just go for the paint job. Nice video. Very informative.
Yesss we needed this🔥🔥🔥
Something I don't think you really mention is the fact that wraps don't need a paint booth. All you really need is a clean garage and you're good to go. Because of this, they are much easier for the DIYer to get into, which I think is useful n00b knowledge. You can do a whole car, but the real advantage is the repair.
After my custom painted (color shift) Porsche 986 took a rock to the door, I realized there was no simple fix. It would be impossible to blend and match the custom paint, the whole car would have to be repainted. Paint had only been on for less than a year. This is the thing that sold me on wraps. If I have the same problem with wrap, I can just order another section of the same wrap and redo only that panel.
My car is now wrapped in Avery Dennison Gloss Roaring Thunder. I didn't do the best job; mostly because my garage is filthy, but it's as good or better than the custom paint job. Best part is I did it myself.
I need a noobs guide to car paint now 😂😂
I did an internship at a mechanic shop that works on racecars, and turns out the vast majority of racecars use wraps instead of just paint. Wraps are perfect for racecars because they get rock chips like crazy and they crash and get banged up more often than you think, and its much cheaper and easier to just put a patch of vinyl on a scratch than to paint over it. They don't look great up close with the patch seams, but really the only people getting that close are the crew and the drivers.
I was literally searching up how to car wrap the instant you uploaded this
4:29, white/light grey color cars fall into the same cathegory as what you mentioned previously. They will creep out some gaps around the foil.
7:24 that might be from the 2 pieces touching eachother and moving slightly, creating friction.
Gotta love the noob's guides man.
Great vid, gonna teach myself how to wrap & the info provided is super useful to pass along to customers coming to my shop who want some sort of wrap whether it’s for color or protective film. Good looks 💪🏻
Please note that everything is based on how well the wrap was installed. Someone who is good at wrapping can use the really cheap stuff and have it last for a very long time. That being said the quality of the vinyl itself is very important especially because most people are not pros.
As a side note I wrapped my car by my self for the first time over a year ago with the cheapest stuff on the market (cheetah wrap vinyl. $400 for a roll of 60ft). So far the wrap has held up for the most part. It certainly has pealing up in some areas but that is because of instal error such as not cleaning the part I’m wrapping. However I want to say that I did a matte purple and I have washed it many times and I love it because it’s easier for me to wash. I just use a wash mit and have never pealed it or damaged it and I don’t have any micro scratches. Note I live in Utah being somewhere else will have different effects. Also my car is outside 100% of the time and has been taken on multiple road trips.
Honestly I did vinyl because my paint was crap and I didn’t want to pay for a paint job and vinyl is way less maintenance
Thanks I learned that wraps are supposed to be to experiment with new colors and to have fun with it, not to commit to an entirely new change!
For me wrap is only for new cars as to not damage the paint.
Paint is for cars that had their years.
If a wrap job cost more then a paint job then just stick with paint, it'll come out better and won't peal overtime.
Now if you are looking for a color for a project car and just don't like the look of your car while it's still being worked on or just sitting then wrap is a good option while you still think about what color you want.
For me I had bought a 240sx and decided to wrap it pearl white myself till I decide what color I'll be painting it.
I'm not in to the mods that u did to ur corvette but idc and I really respect u for going against people's opinions and going for what u like
Another reason to get a wrap could be if you plan on changing the colour of your car but don’t know how it will grow on you and want a “trial period” of that colour
I swear, i was just thinking about wrapping my s60
Welp, i guess the ikea wrap will be coming if its only for a year
another thing could be that if your thinking of painting but not sure how itd look, wrap to try it out and then save up for a complete paint job
wish I would have known this a week ago. I did my first wrap job last week. It wasn't bad, but wasn't super good either.
I have watched a lot of wrap videos and a lot of this info was new to me.
The original thumbnail was an Audi...
BTW love your car. Can't wait for the finished product. And please take it to the track. You need to break the image of ricers and show even ricers can love performance.
Yep
Very helpful video about Car Warps!
Thank you, I'm gonna use all of this info whenever I get my compact e36 :)
The orange peel is on the vinyl itself if u look at the roll. I’ve sanded panels up to 3000 cross sanding and still had orange peel when vinyl applied .
Ammo nyc and CK wraps make a appearance in a Bladed video! 👌
I’m pulling the old wrap off my 92 camaro and restoring it to the original paint color first car project loves breaking my wallet
Nice year! I have a 02 SS as well
@@bhcamaro2002 an ‘02 SS? Ohhh that’s beautiful. I have a 2010 Cobalt SS Turbo myself so I love all my SS brothers
@@alonelydilophosaurusjwa4346 nice! I ran a cobalt ss turbo back when mine was bolt ons only haha
Love your vids man keep up the good work
Thanks man this really helps since I was thinking about wrapping my E30
You had me in the first half ngl😂but the end helped cuz I will probably change my mind on it after 2 or 3 years and I live in Florida so thanks for the video
7:24.
"I just tugged one off in the heat.".- Braided Angle, 20K21.
hello bladed... please do a video about de tomaso freaking pantera
That torquois/purple 720s in the thumbnail is bussain
i remember watching this guys channel a few years back. just stumbled on it again sad to see its kinda died off in views tbh
Wow I'm a car painter ...I was planning to go to wrapping but thank you I changed my mind ...
As a former Indiana citizen, I can relate about the cold dry weather
Ngl I was bout to wrap my car instead of repainting next week. Thanks!!
I'm new-ish but that blue car of yours looks sick
Really helpful and informative
So all and all a regular paint job seem so much better. Sure, the base price for a wrap may be half of a paint job, but so is the lifespan of it (according to my 30 sek googling adventure). Plus you also have the added cost of an extra protective layer (ceramic or PPF). Not to mention all the precautions and much higher risk than just a normal high quality paint job.
I feel funny watching this series whilst not having a driver license yet (cuz I fcked up the theoretical tests by a few points twice already) and definitely no car yet.
I'll forget everything said by the time I get a car.
Ah, I can tell you can't wait till the rise of the weebvette 2.0 ( i guess) keep up the amazing content
saw you heading down highway 124, vette looks and sounds amazing
Ever since I got my ride, I wanted to paint it in my color (the color I could get it in) and my friends are all like "just wrap it!"
After watching this, I was right and I'm gonna just paint it. I'm a "Northerner" but as it stands, it sits in the 100°+ sun to the burried in snow. And before that, the pain damage from rock chips as well as not being the best at washing it, it is the only way.
The Z however.......
thx im learning more stuff from you then school
This advice was great I’m gonna wrap my c5 to look the same as yours
This convinced me to stick with a paint job
Have you done a noobs guide on body types for cars?
1:00 easy mode, if you don't care about the paint. Just sand down the chips and imperfections and wrap over it anyways.
Best channel ever
Hey, thanks man for the series
Love all your vids!
"Don't wrap your car in hot wrather"
Me who lives in Texas: oh... ok... so just... don't wrap my car I guess 🥺
I know I’m late but I still love your vids
Thought bout getting my car wrapped and got some pretty good quotes from some shops in kennesaw best one I got was for $2600.
Babe wake up, new bladed video
I’m up
1:41 HP?!?!
Well... i already bought the wrap so I might as well enjoy it now lol
Thx bladed! My wife is thinking about rapping her car but I think you just answered the 1 million dollar question. Care & how long term is it. Thx bro
I'm switching back to paint after this video lol
This is great news because I live in Maine
To fix that piece you had on your car, just apply a little heat to the edge. That's the beauty of wraps, it will go back to perfect.
Quick question: what if I want a complex design (think NFS) but don’t want a wrap?
Spend more money for a paint job
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