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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:08 pm

I went through my pictures, and decided to pick this blue E46 BMW 3 series to post pictures of for today. Since I mainly end up doing work on so many white cars, it's not always easy for the non-white colored car guys get to see how it looks on other/different colors. This car was done a while back, but I believe he was from around the Huntington Beach/Orange County area. I vinyl wrapped his roof in my gloss black material and I also did his window trim in my matte black vinyl material. This will also give guys who were interested in doing both their window trim and roofs an idea of how the matte and the gloss looks together.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:35 pm

I haven't posted in a while, but that's because I've been traveling over seas for the past 6 weeks or so. Either way, I am back now, and with all of the down time while flying around, I edited a lot of my back logged photos that I hadn't gotten around to editing/posting yet. I didn't notice how "strong" my watermark were in the photos while editing these, so I do apologize for that if it interferes with the pictures too much.

Anyways, here are pictures of a silver 350z that I vinyl wrapped the roof in my gloss black vinyl material. He was a local in Yorba Linda/Orange County. Even though his wheels were a matte finish, the gloss black roof still worked and looked very good on his car regardless. So these pictures will be good for those guys out there who have matte black wheels, and were deciding if they should go with a gloss or stick to a matte finish to match their wheels.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:45 am

This is a white C300 that I vinyl wrapped the roof in my gloss black material a while back. I believe this car was actually from norcal and came down to me in the Orange County area to have his roof wrapped. I work on a lot of white cars, but I haven't posted pictures of one in a while, so I figured I'd throw one into the mix. White colored cars are definitely one of the best colors to get the black roofs on, due to the contrasts, if that is the style that you are looking for or like.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby yaddadaimsayin » Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:26 am

as usual, great professional quality done on all these cars. i've considered getting some vinyl to help mask some of the imperfections, but i just don't think i can pull it off on a black car nicely.
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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Projex0 » Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:13 pm

how long does it normally take you to complete a full roof?
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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:57 pm

Haven't posted pictures of matte black roofs in a while, so I figure I'd post this one up. This is a white Subaru that I vinyl wrapped the roof in with my matte black material. Not a lot of cars can pull off the matte look, but I think this Subaru was able to do it fairly well. Usually you want a car that's a bit more aggressively modded/styled if you're going to go with something like a matte black roof. If not, usually other matte black accents would go well with a matte black roof as well. Typically, if you send me pictures of your car, I can determine what would look best on your car, in my opinion and based on the amount of cars I've seen or worked on. The owner of this car was out near in the Fontana area or something like that.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby parkc96 » Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:13 pm

you think i could do a matte black roof on this? im planning on painting the grille matte black by next spring.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:45 am

Here is a somewhat more recent BMW E46 328i sedan that I recently did some work on. I vinyl wrapped the roof of this car in my gloss black material. I believe the owner of this car was from around the Cerritos/Long Beach area and came out to my shop in Anaheim Hills to get the vinyl wrap done for his roof. We decided to go with the gloss black to give it that panoramic look and kind of update the look of the older aging car. The roof was beginning to fade, so with the vinyl on there, it'll end up help protecting whatever is left of the paint underneath it and at the same time give the roof a new/fresh finish to look at. I wanted to post pictures of this car, to show even on a more stock looking car, a gloss black roof is still a nice mod/addition.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:21 am

Been blacking out quite a few window trims lately, to give it that shadow trim look. Here's pictures of an alpine white BMW E46 330(?) of a member on here. We decided to go with my matte black vinyl material for the window trim on his car. It matched the wheels and theme of the car fairly well. Really toned down the bright chrome, even on this alpine white E46.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:56 am

Been a while since I posted some pictures of the 3M di-noc material wrapped on a roof, so here are some pictures of a white BMW E90 335i sedan that I did the roof with the 3M di noc material. I tried taking a bit more detailed pictures this time around to show you guys more close ups of the roof, to show you the quality of all of my installs. No paint is showing anywhere and all of the weaves are perfectly straight, etc. Pictures will also give you an idea of what the 3M di noc vinyl material would look like on a car that's mildly modified. This car only had wheels with black centers/polished lip. Everything else was still stock at the time of these pictures if I can recall correctly. The owner of this car came out to me from around the Huntington Beach/Orange County area.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:47 am

Here's a return customer. I actually tinted/smoked his tail lights with my material probably a year ago. However, he somewhat recently had someone reverse into him in a parking lot and broke/cracked his driver side tail light. So he asked me if I could redo that one side for him. Of course, I told him to drop by and we'd get it done for his car. The passenger side tail light is the original one that I had done about a year ago. I took some more detailed/close up pictures of that side more to show you guys how well the material and installation has held up. The owner of this car was also from Irvine, but drove out to me from his school out in Riverside that day to get it done.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:24 am

Just wanted to make a quick note for all of the local guys. I am not usually open on the weekends, but I will be having a open house type of event tomorrow. A bit of a short notice, but in case anyone was interested in coming by that don't normally have time during the weekdays to come out to me to have it done, this is your chance.

As much as I work on BMWs and Euro cars, I still also do get other manufacturers and makes that come by to get their roof vinyl wrapped or other vinyl related work done as well. Here's a white Honda Civic SI that I vinyl wrapped the roof in my gloss black material. The owner of this car was around the Garden Grove/Orange County area, and came out to me in Anaheim Hills to get his roof wrapped. Decided to go with the gloss black vinyl finish over the matte black vinyl finish for his car, to give it a more factory/clean look.

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Akfahad » Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:26 am

don...do you charge a flat price for a gloss black overlay for a Gen 1 Solara?
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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:30 am

E-mail me at donathon@gmail.com what you want to wrap for a price. I am assuming a roof?

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Re: FS: Black Roof/Car Vinyl Wraps

Postby Don Nguyen » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:33 am

Here's a white Mercedes Benz CLK that I did quite a few things to. Starting from top to bottom, I vinyl wrapped his roof in my matte black material, blacked out his chrome window trim also with my matte black vinyl material, and then finished everything off with smoking/tinting his tail lights with my film. The owner of this car was fairly close by, in Orange.

The matte black vinyl on the roof is definitely different from what most euro guys go with, but it gives it an interesting different change of pace/look. The window trim on this car was also a bit different from most cars. It was like a two tone chrome, with half of it being somewhat like a black chrome and the other half was a standard chrome finish. I decided to leave the black chrome and only wrap the regular chrome finish, to leave that two tone look.

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