This vinyl wrapping thing is legit. I know you do it now too. I change colors on panels of my car literally weekly with leftovers from jobs or stuff in the "inventory". I'm half chameleon now... @blnewt

 

subscribing....

 

Wtf...well way to subscribe to a thread that's well over a year old smh

 

I know this is an old thread but I was hoping for an update on how the vinyl has held up? Any scratching or pealing?

Also can a newbie handle thing? I am debating just paying the $200 and replacing my two door panels that are pealing or wrapping but I am not the best at these things and don't want to mess anything up.

Thanks!

 

Still good as the day I installed it, but I'm not rough on it, lol.

 

Great! Now I hope I can actually pull it off. How long should I plan for the project?

 

To be honest the window trim wrap DIY is easier and a better place to start w/ vinyl wrapping. If you want to black out your window trim I'd try this first~
https://www.myg37.com/forums/d-i-y-i...-g-sedans.html

That should give you a good intro to vinyl. If you want to dive into the interior project I'd allow a good half day. Taking the panels off/on is half the work. Took me about 3-4 hours but I was paranoid in removing the panels, if I were to do it again I could probably shave an hour off it

 

I've been meaning to post this somewhere for a while now:

The method I used involved removing the center console area(areas LC, UC and SA below) and wrapping those outside of the car and wrapping the remainder of the trim pieces while they remain on the car. If you search around you can find guides on how to remove the center console area, I just looked into the factory service manual for my 2012 sedan to find the clip locations and removed it with the help of some trim removal tools.


When applying the vinyl to the trim pieces that remain on the car I followed the advice in this video I found:

The main reason for this post was to share the layout I used to get all the pieces I need to wrap the interior trim with one 12” x 60” sheet of vinyl. I highly suggest using high quality vinyl such as the 3M 1080 series. The legend for the layout is below as well as the sizes I used for each trimpiece.


Trim Sizes:
FD – Front Door: 28” L x 3” W
RD – Rear Door: 27” L x 3” W
GB – Glove Box: 22” L x 3” W
DS – Drivers Side: 6” L x 3” W
ASH – Ashtray: 6” L x 3” W
SA – Shift Area: 10.5” L x 7.5” W
UC – Upper Center Console: 10” L x 8” W
LC – Lower Center Console: 9” L x 4” W

 

Nice addition there bridengineer^^^^^

 

Nice Job, where did you find those silver climate control ****?

 

Those are from Carsmo, who no longer manufacturers them.

I'm in the process of machining a small batch of similar stainless *****, PM me if you're interested.