Started the Vinyl process on my Hood on Monday....
It went pretty well, I learned a few things and got a groove for it. It's definately not for the faint at heart, but it works and looks cool.
I bought gloss black vinyl but in reality it looks more like a Satin black. In the pics it looks slightly more glossy but it's Satin.
One thing is, IT"S VERY TIME CONSUMING. it took me 2 hours to do the hood.
Here's the pics
When I started, my hood looked like this:
Black Rustoleum wet sanded and smooth, with the exception of the drivers side light lid
You lay it half on starting from the middle and squeegy it out towards the ends.
Have it laid here but not all the bubles worked out
GOt it laid, 95% of the bubbles out, stretched a little where I had to.
I continued throughout the day watching it for bubbles and re-heating corners that might have come up after it sat. I drove it to work today.
Looks better after a day of sitting and laying down more.
THe one thing, if there are any un-smooth imperfections on your the body below it, it will show through.
I am going to re-do the driverside headlight cover due to rough paint under the vinyl.....
BUT it's one and really cool looking. Gonna get some more and start doing the rest of the car. BUT in my case I need to wet sand the rest of the body to get the trash out of the paint to lay the vinyl down nice.
I could leave it and cover it but then it looks like a bad paint job with trash all in it and that's what I'm trying to get away from. :-)
